Razzle dazzle! Rumer Willis cast as Roxie Hart as she makes her Broadway debut in Chicago for eight week run

By Ross Mcdonagh For Dailymail.com

Published: 14:47 EST, 16 July 2015 | Updated: 16:57 EST, 16 July 2015

And all that jazz... dancing sure paid off.

Rumer Willis has been cast as Roxie Hart in Chicago.

The 26-year-old will make her Broadway debut when she begins an eight week run at the Ambassador Theater next month.

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All that jazz: Rumer Willis has been cast as Roxie Hart for her Broadway debut

All that jazz: Rumer Willis has been cast as Roxie Hart for her Broadway debut

The Dancing With The Stars reigning champion will play the 1920's wannabe vaudevillian who is sent to jail after murdering her lover.

She takes over from Moesha star and singer Brandy Norwood. 

The role of Roxie has been played by an array of famous faces on stage including  Liza Minnelli, Christie Brinkley, Melanie Griffith, Brooke Shields, Ashlee Simpson and Michelle Williams, with the latter three doing so both on Broadway and the West End. 

Razzle dazzle: Renee Zellweger played her in the 2002 big screen version, alongside Catherine Zeta Jones and Richard Gere.

Razzle dazzle: Renee Zellweger played her in the 2002 big screen version, alongside Catherine Zeta Jones and Richard Gere.

Class: That film went on to win the 2003 Best Picture Oscar, the first musical to do so since 1969's Oliver!

Class: That film went on to win the 2003 Best Picture Oscar, the first musical to do so since 1969's Oliver!

Renee Zellweger played her in the 2002 big screen version, alongside Catherine Zeta Jones, Richard Gere and Queen Latifah.

That film went on to win the 2003 Best Picture Oscar, the first musical to do so since 1969's Oliver! 

The production, which is the longest ever American musical running on Broadway, is based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, who was the Chicago Tribune reporter assigned to cover the real life 1924 trials of accused murderers Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner.

Champions: Rumer, who won the latest season of Dancing With The Stars with partner Valentin Chmerkovskiy, will begin her run on August 18

Champions: Rumer, who won the latest season of Dancing With The Stars with partner Valentin Chmerkovskiy, will begin her run on August 18

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It features the famous numbers All That Jazz, Cell Block Tango and Razzle Dazzle, while Rumer herself will be responsible for Funny Honey, Nowadays and Roxie.

This will not be Rumner's first play; she appeared off-Broadway in Love, Loss And What I Wore.

She also starred in a number of For The Record productions - which creates stage productions around the soundtracks of famous filmmakers - including Baz Lurhman, Quentin Tarantino and John Hughes.

Hand over: Rumer takes over the role from Moesha star and singer Brandy Norwood

Hand over: Rumer takes over the role from Moesha star and singer Brandy Norwood

Rumer isn't the only Willis hitting Broadway this year: 11 days after she finishes her Chicago run, her Dad Bruce is set to star in the stage adaptation of Stephen King's Misery at the Broadhurst Theatre.

Brandy meanwhile has been showing off some of the moves that landed her the role in the first place.

She and the current cast of Chicago performed at 106.7 LITE FM's Broadway in Bryant Park in New York on Thursday morning.

I know what you did this summer: Brandy meanwhile has been showing off some of the moves that landed her the role in the first place.

I know what you did this summer: Brandy meanwhile has been showing off some of the moves that landed her the role in the first place.

I can't do it alone: Brandy and the current cast of Chicago performed at 106.7 LITE FM's Broadway in Bryant Park in New York on Thursday morning

I can't do it alone: Brandy and the current cast of Chicago performed at 106.7 LITE FM's Broadway in Bryant Park in New York on Thursday morning

 

 

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