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May 18, 2009 6:07 pm US/Eastern
"Chicago" With Vergara To Razzle Dazzle Miami
Chicago To Play Adrienne Arsht Center In Miami May 26- 31
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
Hispanic TV and film star, Sofía Vergara, is bringing
Chicago to Miami. Vergara, a Columbian born beauty who began her career as a model and TV hostess in the Latin entertainment world, will appear as Matron "Mama" Morton in the Miami engagement of the Tony-winning Broadway show
Chicago. Queen Latifah played the role of the prison matron in the film version of the musical.
Chicago will play the
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, next week.
"I am so excited, I can't believe I'm doing it," Vergara told
CBS4's Lisa Petrillo. "I can't believe I fooled them that I am able to perform in a live audience and sing because I never sang in my life."
Vergara played a five-week run as "Mama" Morton on Broadway before the show's national tour. Vergara will return to the Broadway company June 1-7.
Murder. Greed. Corruption. Violence. Exploitation. Adultery. Treachery. Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s,
Chicago is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her 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 devious crime into a barrage of sensational headlines, according to BroadwayWorld.com.
Vergara first auditioned for the role of Roxie Hart but Roxie's non-stop dance moves were too demanding on Sofía who suffers from knee problems.
"I said I'm going to have to pass," explained Vergara. "They said 'How about Mamma Morton, she doesn't have to dance', but I said 'I'm not Queen Latifah, a big black woman', and they said 'No, you can sing those songs, do it.'"
And so Vergara has been belting it on Broadway ever since and she is so excited to bring Mama Morton here to her hometown.
"I live in Miami, my whole family and my friends are. It's going to be fantastic and it's a bigger theatre here," said Vergara.
Chicago won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 1997 as well as awards for actors Bebe Neuwirth and James Naughton, director Walter Bobbie, lighting designer Ken Billington and choreographer Ann Reinking. The original production was directed and choreographed by the late Bob Fosse.
Chicago runs at The Adrienne Arsht Center May 26 - May 31st.
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