Todrick Hall as Billy Flynn

Todrick Hall will star as Billy Flynn in Chicago

YouTube Sensation Todrick Hall returns to Broadway for a special limited engagement in Broadway's longest-running American musical.

Tom Millward
Tom Millward

TV personality and YouTube Sensation Todrick Hall, who recently made a high-heeled, triumphant return to Broadway as Lola in Kinky Boots, will once again tread the boards in a special limited engagement as Billy Flunn in the Broadway production of Kander & Ebb's Tony Award-winning musical Chicago. Todrick is set to "razzle dazzle 'em" from November 30, 2017 to January 14, 2018 at the Ambassador Theatre. Current cast member Tom Hewitt will play his final performance as Billy Flynn on November 26.

Todrick Hall previously appeared on the Great White Way in The Color Purple and Memphis early on his career. He rose to fame as a contestant on the 9th season of "American Idol" and became a YouTube Sensation with 2.7 million subscribers and over 400 million views with his various video productions. He completed a national tour of his own show Straight Outta Oz, before returning to Broadway in Kinky Boots in November 2016.

The principal Broadway cast currently includes Tony Award nominee Charlotte d'Amboise​ (as Roxie Hart), Olivier Award winner Leigh Zimmerman (as Velma Kelly), Tom Hewitt (as Billy Flynn), Raymond Bokhour (as Amos Hart), NaTasha Yvette Williams (as Matron "Mama" Morton), and R. Lowe (as Mary Sunshine).

In addition, LaVon Fisher-Wilson is set to return to the role of Matron "Mama" Morton from November 20.

Directed by Walter Bobbie, with choreography by Ann Reinking, Chicago features a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with a book by Bob Fosse & Fred Ebb.

The Broadway revival of Chicago began previews at the Ambassador Theatre on October 23, 1996, officially opening on November 14.

Synopsis: " Chicago follows not your usual housewife, Roxie Hart, who gains dubious notoriety when she kills her boyfriend, invents her defence and manipulates everyone from her trustworthy husband to the fickle media and the unsuspecting public." The show features such showtune classics as "All That Jazz", "Razzle Dazzle", and "Mr. Cellophane", among many others.

The creative team features scenic design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Ken Billington and sound design by Scott Lehrer.

Chicago is the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards including "Best Musical Revival," and the winner of the Grammy Award for "Best Musical Cast Recording."

Chicago Tickets are available now for performances through to September 30, 2018.

(Photo by Steven & Chad, THEGINGERB3ARDMEN)

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