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Video: CHICAGO Celebrates 27th Year on Broadway
May 16, 2024
Pop the champagne - the longest running musical now playing on Broadway has reached another milestone! On Tuesday, November 14th, the Tony, Olivier, and Grammy Award-winning smash hit musical Chicago celebrated its 27th year as a Broadway institution. Check out video footage from the unveiling here!
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Hello everyone. My name is Kelty Knight. I'm the chief correspondent of e-news and host of the Lady
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Gang podcast and a former New Yorker when I was just a baby 18-year-old girl. I moved to New York
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with the dream of being on Broadway and I unsuccessfully auditioned for like 30 plus shows
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and I never made it. And so I had to take a very strange route to be here tonight and moved on to
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television and hosting television shows and then begged everyone that I knew in the entertainment
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business to please call Barry and please let me do something with Chicago and I have begged
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for a decade and so I'm so excited to be here because tonight is this huge anniversary but I just
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want to make sense of why I'm here I'm so excited because after asking for a decade Barry and the
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entire team have opened their Chicago hearts and on CBS's coverage of the Thanksgiving Day
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parade this year just next week I'll be performing a number with the cast as Roxy Hart
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And this is a dream culture for me, and I'm so excited for everyone to see
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So I was thinking, you know, being a lover of Broadway and seeing so many shows come and go over the years
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I was thinking about how on earth did this show make it 27 years
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And then I thought about my costume fitting just a few weeks ago here at the theater where Barry and William and David and every single member of the team came down and they were treating it like it was the most important moment in Chicago history
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It is not. I got to be honest. You've had way better moments. But the passion and the care and the being so particular about the craft of what this show is and what this show means to the theater
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community. It was really so inspiring to spend that time with you, and I think that's a secret to success
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I will tell you that the Schubert organization could not be happier about this event. We went through
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quite the struggle to get this show. It started after Richard Rogers. It moved to the Schubert
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and then it moved to the ambassador. And this team here has made the greatest theater deal in the history of
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But to be playing 27 years is a pretty great accomplishment. And we've enjoyed it
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We hope they will be here for at least another 27 years
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Maybe even 50. It's truly a great honor for the Shibbon organization to honor Barry and Fran and Alicia
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for having the longest running of America running American Israel That was stupid super sports that a great time There that a little bit
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Ah, all right, and we're going to unveil the plaque. Is that, you want to do it before or after you speak
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All right. So ladies and gentlemen, the legendary, Barry and Friend, Thank you
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Thank you. You know, some couples have children. And 27 years ago, we gave birth to a Broadway baby
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It went through pre-kindergarten at the Martin Beck, elementary school the Richard Rogers High School at the Schubert, and now here college and postgraduate
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it doesn't get any better than this is because of all of you, all of you who were with us
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27 years ago and on the journey that had made us a success. So to all of you from our hearts
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thank you. Thank you. Chicago at I good And we went the fourth night because we knew it was awful So we thought there no reason to go any earlier And then we saw it and we fell in love with the show
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So we ran home and called Tandermanette and said we saw the show
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We know everybody has seen it. Give us just a little piece of it, anything
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And we don't even care if our name is on it, which is a lie. We cared. There was a long, long part
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And John, Andrew, or Fred said, you've got the whole show. Nobody wants to show
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And we said, what do you mean? Nobody wants to show. And he said, crayon, Barry and nobody wants to show
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And the rest, as they said, is just... Okay, welcome
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Gary and friend, the next time we have a show, nobody wants, please call me
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I want it, I want it. All right. Where is this? Are you ready
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I'm ready. I'm going to help you. Okay. I understand it needs two
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You ready? Let's go. Okay. Happy 27th anniversary
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