NEW YORK — Pamela Anderson smiled and held a bouquet of roses after making her much-anticipated Broadway debut with Tuesday’s performance in “Chicago.”
Anderson waved to the audience and held hands with her co-stars during the curtain call at the Ambassador Theatre Tuesday night, which kicked off her eight-week run playing Roxie Hart in the musical.
The “Chicago” performances led by Anderson are set to continue through June 5.
“She just looked like she was having a great time at the end of the show,” an unnamed attendee told People after Anderson’s debut.
Anderson, 54, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” last month that she was excited to get outside of her comfort zone by starring in a stage musical.
“I like that kind of dangerous, crazy feeling that you can’t do something, and then you surprise yourself,” Anderson said at the time. “You don’t know what you’re capable of until you try it, and so that’s what I’m really curious about, is what can I actually do?”
Anderson, who played C.J. Parker on “Baywatch,” is the latest big-name star to portray the dancer-turned-murderer Roxie on Broadway, with Christie Brinkley, Brooke Shields, Gwen Verdon and Liza Minnelli among the others.
Chicago, which debuted on Broadway in 1975, was revived in 1996 and has been playing ever since, making it Broadway’s longest-running musical.
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