"were performers. Every musical moment in the show was loosely modeled on someone else: Roxie was Helen Morgan, Velma was Texas Guinan, Billy Flynn was Ted Lewis, Mama Morton was Sophie Tucker."" Kander elaborates that the reason the show was called a vaudeville ""is because many of the songs we wrote are related to specific performers like those you mentioned, and Eddie Cantor and Bert Williams as well."" It was through the initial production, and not the writing, that many of the ""traditional"" ""Chicago"" staging conventions were developed: The double snap in ""Razzle Dazzle"" was added as an afterthought at"
"Marco Zunino Marco Aurelio Zunino Costa (born 12 November 1976) is a Peruvian film, television and stage actor, singer-songwriter and dancer. In his country has starred in the musicals ""Jesucristo Superstar"", ""Cabaret"", ""Rent"" and ""Amor sin barreras (West Side Story)"". Zunino debuted on Broadway, starring as Billy Flynn in ""Chicago"", in the Ambassador Theatre (New York). Zunino Costa was born on 12 November 1976 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His parents had migrated to Puerto Rico from Peru due to the agrarian reform. His parents returned to Peru when Zunino Costa was 8 months old. Zunino Costa is of Peruvian ancestry"
"Billy Flynn since the show first opened on Broadway in 1975. In 2007, after seeing Ewan McGregor in the role, he played the lead in Michael Grandage's Olivier Award-winning production of ""Guys and Dolls"", starring as Sky Masterson. Later that year he reprised his role of Billy Flynn for the 10th Anniversary charity performance of ""Chicago"" in London, to benefit the charities Breast Cancer Haven and Breast Health Institute. In 2008 he returned to London's West End to play Rhett Butler in Sir Trevor Nunn's musical adaptation of ""Gone With The Wind"". In January and February 2010 Campbell won the"
"via his father. He studied at Colegio Italiano Antonio Raimondi de La Molina. Zunino is graduate of the Circle in the Square Theatre School. Marco Zunino Marco Aurelio Zunino Costa (born 12 November 1976) is a Peruvian film, television and stage actor, singer-songwriter and dancer. In his country has starred in the musicals ""Jesucristo Superstar"", ""Cabaret"", ""Rent"" and ""Amor sin barreras (West Side Story)"". Zunino debuted on Broadway, starring as Billy Flynn in ""Chicago"", in the Ambassador Theatre (New York). Zunino Costa was born on 12 November 1976 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His parents had migrated to Puerto Rico from"
"in addition to other cancer charities. Campbell married Canadian actress Natasha Henstridge in a secret ceremony in February 2011. They filed for divorce in July 2013. The divorce was finalized in February 2018. Darius Campbell Darius Campbell-Danesh (born 19 August 1980) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and film producer. He is currently an ambassador for The Prince's Trust. Campbell performed the role of Billy Flynn in the West End production of ""Chicago"" in two runs of the musical. He played the lead role of Sky Masterson in the Olivier Award-winning ""Guys and Dolls"", and the originating role of"
"Johnny Flynn (musician) Johnny Flynn (born 14 March 1983) is a South African-born British musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He is the lead singer and songwriter of the band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit. Flynn has starred as Dylan Witter in the Channel 4 and Netflix television sitcom ""Lovesick"" (previously known as ""Scrotal Recall""), and portrayed a young Albert Einstein in the American period drama ""Genius"". Flynn was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Eric Flynn, a British actor and singer, and Caroline Forbes. From his father's first marriage he has two older half-brothers, actors Jerome Flynn"
"(2007), ""Arbitrage"" (2012) and """" (2016). For portraying Billy Flynn in the Academy Award-winning musical ""Chicago"" (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast. Gere was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Doris Ann (née Tiffany, 19242016), was a housewife. His father, Homer George Gere (1922-), was an insurance agent for the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and had originally intended to become a minister. Gere is their eldest son and second child. His paternal great-grandfather had changed the spelling of the surname from ""Geer"". Both of his parents were ""Mayflower"""
"break, Flynn produced a new album entitled ""Sillion"" which was released on 24 March 2017. Johnny Flynn (musician) Johnny Flynn (born 14 March 1983) is a South African-born British musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He is the lead singer and songwriter of the band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit. Flynn has starred as Dylan Witter in the Channel 4 and Netflix television sitcom ""Lovesick"" (previously known as ""Scrotal Recall""), and portrayed a young Albert Einstein in the American period drama ""Genius"". Flynn was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Eric Flynn, a British actor and singer, and"
"Matthew Goodgame Matthew Goodgame (born c.1980) is a professional actor, singer and dancer from Kent. He made his professional and West End debut in November 2004 playing Billy Flynn in ""Chicago"" at the Adelphi Theatre, after winning the Channel 4 series ""Musicality"". Goodgame went on to record his debut album ""Musicality - The Winners Album"" with EMI. Since then Goodgame has reprised the role of Billy Flynn on visits to both Singapore and Las Vegas, with the Cellophane Company. Goodgame was asked to perform at Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday Gala at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and also at Gordon"
"joined the UK cast of 42nd Street, performing as Pat Denning. Matthew Goodgame Matthew Goodgame (born c.1980) is a professional actor, singer and dancer from Kent. He made his professional and West End debut in November 2004 playing Billy Flynn in ""Chicago"" at the Adelphi Theatre, after winning the Channel 4 series ""Musicality"". Goodgame went on to record his debut album ""Musicality - The Winners Album"" with EMI. Since then Goodgame has reprised the role of Billy Flynn on visits to both Singapore and Las Vegas, with the Cellophane Company. Goodgame was asked to perform at Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday"
"Darius Campbell Darius Campbell-Danesh (born 19 August 1980) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and film producer. He is currently an ambassador for The Prince's Trust. Campbell performed the role of Billy Flynn in the West End production of ""Chicago"" in two runs of the musical. He played the lead role of Sky Masterson in the Olivier Award-winning ""Guys and Dolls"", and the originating role of Rhett Butler in Sir Trevor Nunn's theatrical adaptation of ""Gone with the Wind"". In 2010 he trained with tenor Rolando Villazón, won the ITV competition ""Popstar to Operastar"" and performed a duet with"
"Maggie Flynn Maggie Flynn is a 1968 musical with a book by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss (in collaboration with Morton DaCosta) and music and lyrics by Peretti, Creatore, and Weiss. Based on an idea by John Flaxman, it was inspired by a true story set in the New York Draft Riots of 1863. The title character, an Irish woman providing asylum for orphaned children of refugee slaves, is on the verge of marrying a Union Army colonel. Her vagabond husband Phineas Flynn (who abandoned her to pursue a theatrical career and whom she had presumed was"
"Kellogg School of Management. In 2016, he appeared on Broadway in the musical ""Chicago"" as the hustling lawyer Billy Flynn. George was born in Philadelphia. He played Pop Warner football for the Abington Raiders. He attended Abington Senior High School until the tenth grade, and then transferred to Fork Union Military Academy. George made the decision to stay at Fork Union Military Academy for a fifth prep school year or postgraduate year. Such choices are commonly made by high school football players hoping to improve their recruitment status with colleges, but for George it meant another year of the rigorous"
"of his solo tracks, most of the cover songs already contained in his second studio album, and historical hits from the Spandau Ballet period. Hadley has continued with a busy performing schedule and also toured with both Cox and Martin Fry from the band ABC. He released a jazz-swing album in 2006, titled ""Passing Strangers"", and traveled on a ""by request"" tour from March to May 2006. This was followed by a big band tour later the same year. In January 2007, Hadley performed in the West End musical ""Chicago"" as crooked lawyer Billy Flynn, at the Cambridge Theatre. Hadley"
"Broadway to portray the role of Billy Flynn again in the revival of ""Chicago"" and he sang at the New York Festival of Song at Carnegie Hall in a concert honoring Hal Prince. In 2006 he played the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""The Phantom of the Opera"" for the new production in at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas which was directed by Hal Prince. On July 7, 2009, he rejoined the Broadway cast of ""Chicago"", in the role of Billy Flynn, a role he has now played several engagements of on Broadway. He starred alongside Samantha Harris"
"seven-date tour (the ""Smile Tour"") around Britain. In 2002, he hosted and sang in ""Girls' Night Out"", one of a week of shows in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, at the Royal Albert Hall. This led to him, in 2002, being offered the part of Billy Flynn, the lawyer in the musical ""Chicago"" in London's West End and, in 2004, on Broadway. Also in 2002, Pellow released ""Marti Pellow Sings the Hits of Wet Wet Wet & Smile"", an 18-track compilation comprising three songs from the latter album. In November 2003, he issued an album of cover versions, ""Between"
"Gere on film and Usher on Broadway, Kavanagh was chosen in 2003 to play lawyer Billy Flynn in the French version of the musical comedy ""Chicago"" in Montreal and Paris. In 1998, Kavanagh voiced the character Mushu for the French-Canadian dub of the Disney animated film ""Mulan"". He also provided voice work in French for ""Home on the Range"" (2004) by Disney : Buck (French voice); ""Madagascar"" 1 (2005), 2 (2008) & 3 (2012) by DreamWorks: Marty the zebra (French and French Canadian voice); ""Happy Feet"" 1 (2006) and 2 (2011) by Warner Bros: Memphis and Lovelace (French voice); ""The"
"last musical ""I Remember Mama"", ""Good News!"", ""Lady Be Good"", ""The Busby Berkeley Album"". ""You Can't Put Ketchup On The Moon"", ""Sing Before Breakfast"", ""The Road To Ruin"", ""Lovemusik"". Ann Morrison Ann Morrison (born April 9, 1956) is an American actress, best known for her Broadway debut as Mary Flynn in the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical, ""Merrily We Roll Along"" directed by Harold Prince for which she won the 1982 Theatre World Award. Off-Broadway she played Lizzie in the highly acclaimed Polly Pen/Peggy Harmon musical ""Goblin Market"" which garnered her a 1986 Drama Desk Award Nomination as Best Actress in"
"Brad Kavanagh Brad Lewis Kavanagh (born 21 August 1992) is an English actor and singer-songwriter, originally from Whitehaven, Cumbria, and is best known for being the guitarist, writer and singer for the English band FLYNT. Brad Kavanagh started acting as a child in a local acting group in Cumbria before training at Scream Theatre School in Blackpool. Here, he became a huge success when he made his acting debut in the West End in ""Billy Elliot the Musical"" as Billy's best friend, Michael, at the age of 11. He still goes home from time to time and helps out at"
"Jake in ""Side Show"". He also appeared in Michael John LaChiusa's Broadway musical ""The Wild Party"" as Eddie. Lewis was in Michel Legrand's short-lived musical ""Amour"" in 2002, which also featured Melissa Errico, Malcolm Gets, and Lewis Cleale. He played the racketeer Eddie Satin in the New York City Center Encores! staged concert of ""Golden Boy"" in March 2002. He played Billy Flynn in the Broadway revival of ""Chicago"" in February 2004 and March 2004. He performed in several benefit concerts, including ""Dreamgirls"" (2001), ""Chess"" (2003), and ""Hair"". In 2005, Lewis starred in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park"
"Blues Away."" The second act's lesser known but crackling ""Fire Crackers/""Song of Freedom"" is also [a] show stopper."" The musical received one 2017 Tony Award nomination, for Best Choreography for Denis Jones. The musical was nominated for the 2017 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography. Holiday Inn (musical) Holiday Inn (also known as Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical) is a musical based on the Paramount Pictures 1942 film of the same name. The libretto is by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. The musical opened on Broadway in 2016 after premiering at"
"National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Netherlands Dance Theatre, among others. Flynn was a staff conductor for the Australian Opera between 1970 and 1977. He won acclaim as musical director for ""Hair"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", and later ""Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat"". He composed scores for Australian films such as ""Caddie"", ""Mad Dog Morgan"" and ""Sunday Too Far Away"", and the rock operas ""Ned Kelly"", about the Australian bushranger, and ""Lasseter"". He conducted numerous orchestras in the US and was at the time of his death Music Director of the Riverside County (California) Philharmonic and"
"New Jersey. He had been cast as Frank Crawley in the Broadway production of ""Rebecca"", but left that musical because he appeared in ""Newsies"" on Broadway as Joseph Pulitzer. ""Newsies"" opened on Broadway on March 15, 2012 in previews. He later joined the Broadway production of ""Chicago"" as Billy Flynn for an engagement lasting from March to May 2015. He played the role of ""Larry"" in the Off-Broadway production of ""Dear Evan Hansen"", which opened in previews on March 26, 2016 at the Second Stage Theatre, and closed on May 29, 2016. He appears as ""Tommy Lewis"" in the new"
"The production closed on 15 July 2017 ""Chicago the Musical"" opened at the Phoenix Theatre on 11 April 2018, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as Billy Flynn, Sarah Soetaert as Roxie Hart, Josefina Gabrielle as Velma Kelly, and Ruthie Henshall as Mama Morton. A cast change saw Martin Kemp take over the role of Billy Flynn, with Alexandra Burke as Roxie Hart, Mazz Murray as Mama Morton, and Denise Van Outen as Velma Kelly. The show is set to close on 5 January 2019. In June 2018 it was announced that the hit Broadway musical ""Come from Away"" is set to"
"for Best Actor in a Musical. He has played colorful characters such as Captain Hook in the musical ""Peter Pan"" (2007), and the Genie in the musical ""Aladdin"" (2008). In the summer of 2016, Jaime starred as Billy Flynn in the musical ""Chicago"" on Broadway in the Ambassador Theater. Camil played Flynn in an extended run from May 31 to July 31, 2016. In the fall of 2014, he began acting in the role of Rogelio De La Vega, the biological father of Jane Villanueva and a telenovela star, in the CW network comedy, ""Jane the Virgin"". In 2018, he"
"Victor and re-released on CD by DRG in 2009. During the American Civil War, Maggie Flynn, a young Irish woman living in New York City, marries Phineas, a charming scoundrel who leaves her to join the circus. Maggie runs an orphanage for black orphans, and soon is engaged to Colonel John Farraday, a steady and faithful beau. However, Phineas, now called ""The Clown,"" returns to win back his wife. They become caught up in the New York Draft Riots of 1863, and the orphanage is burned down. Maggie Flynn Maggie Flynn is a 1968 musical with a book by Hugo"
"lawyer money could buy, Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou), who is the closest thing to a show artist to ever enter a court room. Billy decides they will use the fact that Roxie is a weak woman and claim she killed the man in self-defense. Billy sets up a series of interviews with journalist reporters. Roxie is instructed to charm the reporters and dance her own trademark dance ""The Black Hula"". Homer is one of these reporters who are charmed by the lovely Roxie. He also finds out that Amos in fact is the real killer from her apartment building janitor,"
"Happy New Year (musical) Happy New Year is a musical with a book by Burt Shevelove and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Based on Philip Barry's comic 1928 play ""Holiday"" and its subsequent 1930 film adaptation and better known 1938 remake, it focuses on hedonistic young Wall Street attorney Johnny Case who, driven by his passion to live life as a holiday, contemplates abandoning his career for a carefree existence by marrying wealthy upper class Julia Seton. Porter successfully had transformed Barry's ""The Philadelphia Story"" into the musical film ""High Society"", so Shevelove pored through the composer's catalogue in"
"an active member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America for over eighteen years. His first job in the industry was as an executive assistant to multiple Academy Award winning producer Scott Rudin, who is the only producer to ever win an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy. Flynn’s most recent release, action-thriller ""Skyscraper"", stars Dwayne Johnson and is written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. The film debuted on July 13, 2018 and was the #1 movie in the world in its second weekend. It has grossed over $285 million worldwide and"
"at New York City Opera as ""Danilo"" in ""The Merry Widow"". Subsequently, he has appeared in ""Naughty Marietta"", ""Rose-Marie"", ""The Gypsy Princess"", ""The Desert Song"", ""The New Moon"" and ""Die Fledermaus"". Raines appeared on Broadway in the 1983 Broadway revival of ""Show Boat"" (as ""Ravenal""); the 1987 Broadway production of ""Teddy & Alice"" and as ""Billy Flynn"" in the long-running revival of ""Chicago"" in 2002. He has also appeared in productions of ""South Pacific"", ""Annie"", ""Kiss Me, Kate"", ""Can-Can"", ""The King and I"", ""Brigadoon"", ""Oklahoma!"", ""Carousel"", ""The Pajama Game"", ""Guys and Dolls"", ""A Little Night Music"", ""Kismet"" and ""Man of"
"also scored Brian Crano's latest movie ""A Bag of Hammers"". In December 2008 Flynn took part in a tribute concert for Sandy Denny at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Flynn and his song 'The Wrote and The Writ' were referenced in Alt-J's(∆) song 'Matilda' Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit are an English folk rock band signed to Transgressive Records. They are fronted by Johnny Flynn, an actor, poet and songwriter who cites W.B. Yeats and Shakespeare among his influences. Current members are Flynn, David Beauchamp, Adam Beach, Joe Zeitlin, James Mathe, Matt Edmonds,"
"described as a ""sure-fire property"". In November 2005, Usher starred as a disc jockey named Darrell in the Lions Gate film, ""In the Mix"". On August 22, 2006, Usher took over the role of Billy Flynn in the long-running Broadway revival of the musical ""Chicago"". Usher's opening night brought out stars Penélope Cruz, Gabrielle Union, Clive Davis, and Rosie Perez, and others. Usher played the role of Flynn for two months but a case of strep throat brought an abrupt ending to Usher's run in ""Chicago,"" which saw a spike in ticket sales after he joined the cast. The ""New"
"Billy (musical) Billy is a musical based on the novel and play ""Billy Liar"" by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. The book was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the music is by John Barry, and the lyrics are by Don Black. ""Billy"" opened at the Palace Theatre in Manchester before moving to the West End at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 1 May 1974 where it ran for 904 performances. The cast starred Michael Crawford in the title role, with Bryan Pringle (Geoffrey Fisher), Avis Bunnage (Alice Fisher), Christopher Hancock (Mr. Shadrack), Billy Boyle, Diana Quick"