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Actress and DANCING WITH THE STARS winner Rumer Willis was slated to make her Broadway debut as 'Roxie Hart' in Broadway's CHICAGO tonight, September 14, after recovering from multiple stress fractures to her foot.
But the actress took to Twitter today to announce another delay -- we'll have to wait until next week for her first bows on the Great White Way.
Just to clarify my Broadway debut in @ChicagoMusical is not tonight. It's next week.
- Rumer Willis (@TheRue) September 14, 2015
Tonight I have another important place to be....??
- Rumer Willis (@TheRue) September 14, 2015
Willis is set to play a limited engagement at the Ambassador Theatre (219 W. 49th St., NYC) through Sunday, November 1, 2015.
CHICAGO currently stars Grammy Award winner Amy Spanger as Roxie Hart, international stage sensation Amra-Faye Wright as Velma Kelly, Ryan Silverman as Billy Flynn, Raymond Bokhour as Amos Hart, NaTasha Yvette Williams as Matron "Mama" Morton and R. Lowe as Mary Sunshine.
With a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, CHICAGO is now the #1 longest-running American musical in Broadway history.
Produced by Barry and Fran Weissler, Chicago is the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Recording.
Directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Tony Award winner Ann Reinking, CHICAGO features set design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by Tony Award winner William Ivey Long, lighting design by Tony Award winner Ken Billington and sound design by Scott Lehrer.
Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, CHICAGO is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her. Desperate to avoid conviction, she dupes the public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago's slickest criminal lawyer to transform her malicious crime into a barrage of sensational headlines, the likes of which might just as easily be ripped from today's tabloids.Videos