Angelica Ross would be the first trans lead in 'Chicago' on Broadway

Muricas News  — 

“Chicago” is Broadway’s longest-running revival – and even after greater than 25 years, the manufacturing continues to be making historical past.

Subsequent month, the main position of fame-hungry murderess Roxie Hart shall be performed by Angelica Ross, the manufacturing introduced Thursday. Ross would be the first out transgender actress to step into Roxie’s T-strap footwear on Broadway, based on the Hollywood Reporter, and one of many first trans ladies to play a number one position on Broadway.

Ross is greatest identified for her position as Sweet Ferocity, a younger trans girl who frequently competed in New York’s ballroom scene, on the Emmy-winning collection “Pose.” The FX drama featured the most important solid of trans actors on a TV collection, shops reported forward of its 2018 premiere.

Along with her casting, Ross joins a small however formidable group of Black trans ladies who’ve bowed on Broadway: In 2018, Peppermint of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fame starred within the Go-Go’s musical “Head Over Heels,” and this season, L Morgan Lee earned a Tony nomination for her position in greatest musical winner “A Unusual Loop.” The upcoming revival of “1776” will even embrace trans and nonbinary solid members.

Muricas News has reached out to “Chicago” and reps for Ross for additional remark. The “Pose” star begins performances on September 12, the manufacturing mentioned.

Ross is the most recent star to play Roxie on Broadway: Earlier this yr, actress and animal advocate Pamela Anderson made her Broadway debut within the position.