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 Sunday, March 12 on the Ambassador Theatre. Producers introduced the casting right this moment, noting that Monsoon would be the first drag queen to play the function on Broadway.
“I can not stress sufficient that this has been a lifelong dream of mine,” Monsoon stated in a press release. “To be making my Broadway debut, as my favourite function, in considered one of my favourite exhibits— that lifelong dream is coming true after which some. The primary quantity I carried out in drag was ‘All That Jazz,’ so this feels nearly too serendipitous. However I by no means query my blessings, I simply 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 long term has featured numerous celebrities in restricted runs, together with Pamela Anderson final spring within the function 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.”
