Ariana Madix Holds Roses During 'Chicago' Debut, 'VPR' Stars Show Support | 1H3SH82 | 2024-01-31 13:08:01
The identify on everyone's lips is gonna be Ariana Madix. The Vanderpump Rules star made her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Monday, January 29.
Madix, 38, held a bouquet of roses during her first curtain call and was all smiles whereas bowing for a crowd of cheering fans. Fellow VPR stars Lala Kent and Scheana Shay made the journey from Los Angeles to New York Metropolis to help Madix's first present.
"@arianamadix absolutely crushed it," Shay, 38, captioned her Instagram Story on Monday, posting a photograph of Madix backstage. In a second publish, Shay shared a video of Madix's first bow.
"Soooooo extremely proud!!!" Shay wrote, tagging her good friend.
Former VPR star Dayna Kathan was additionally within the crowd. (Kathan appeared on the Bravo present for two seasons from 2018 to 2020.)
"YOU GUYS. SCREAMING. CRYING. THROWING UP," Kathan, 33, captioned her Instagram Story, referring to Madix's performance. "SHE WAS PERFECT."
Madix was additionally photographed with her boyfriend, Daniel Wai, at the present. (Madix and Wai have been first spotted together in April 2023, one month after she and her boyfriend of 9 years, Tom Sandoval, cut up amid his cheating scandal.)
Madix's Broadway debut comes following her stint on Dancing With the Stars late last yr. The truth star finished in third place during DWTS season 32, which got here to an finish in December 2023. That same month, Madix's Chicago casting news was announced.
Madix revealed throughout an interview with Extra earlier this month that it's been her "lifelong dream" to star on Broadway.
"It is actually the rationale why anything has ever happened," Madix gushed about turning into a stage star. "It's the rationale why I majored in theater, … it's the rationale why I lived [in NYC] so long ago. It's finally even the rationale I moved to L.A. within the first place, so it's loopy."
Chicago is the longest-running show in Broadway history. The present's unique NYC run lasted somewhat over one month in 1975. The musical made its return to Broadway in 1996. Madix is the newest identify on the listing of famous ladies who've taken on the position of Roxie Hart through the years, together with Pamela Anderson, Erika Jayne, Lisa Rinna, Ashlee Simpson and Michelle Williams, among others.
For these not well-versed in theater, Roxie is an aspiring vaudeville performer who kills her lover and is shipped to Chicago's Prepare dinner County Jail.
Madix noted that she associated to Roxie's "resilience" when discussing her character in the same interview with Additional.
"I feel her story of eager to be a dancer in vaudeville and considering that each one these alternatives had handed her by," Madix continued. "Her story of perseverance and the best way that she simply picks issues up and learns actually shortly simply the way to continuously have one thing that's, like, getting her to the place she needs to be."
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