Jinkx Monsoon, a two-time winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, will make her Broadway debut this January as Matron ‘Mama’ Morton within the long-running Chicago.
Monsoon’s eight-week engagement begins Monday, January 16, and runs by way of Sunday, March 12 on the Ambassador Theatre. Producers introduced the casting at this time, noting that Monsoon would be the first drag queen to play the position on Broadway.
“I cannot stress enough that this has been a lifelong dream of mine,” Monsoon mentioned in an announcement. “To be making my Broadway debut, as my favorite role, in one of my favorite shows— that lifelong dream is coming true and then some. The first number I performed in drag was ‘All That Jazz,’ so this feels almost too serendipitous. But I never question my blessings, I just thank Hecate for them.”
Earlier this 12 months, Monsoon turned the primary two-time winner of the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise when she took the crown in RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7. She had beforehand received RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5.
The Tony-winning Broadway revival of Chicago opened in 1996, and in its future has featured varied celebrities in restricted runs, together with Pamela Anderson final spring within the position of Roxy Hart.
As Mama Morton, Monsoon, who has launched three albums, will carry out one of many highlights of the present’s Kander and Ebb rating, “When You’re Good to Mama.”
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