Brandy performs free concert with her Chicago castmates in Bryant Park... as Rumer Willis prepares to take over the Roxie Hart role
Brandy Norwood performed a free concert with her Chicago castmates in midtown Manhattan's Bryant Park Thursday.
The 36-year-old Grammy winner rocked a mega curly bob with an ultra-sheer sleeveless LBD over leggings and T-strap character heels.
The Game actress made her Broadway debut as murderous, 23-year-old chorus girl Roxie Hart in the Prohibition-era musical.
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'MeAndmyBoyz!' Brandy Norwood performed a free concert with her Chicago castmates in midtown Manhattan's Bryant Park Thursday
Other celebs who have taken on ambitious Roxie include Ginger Rogers, Liza Minnelli, Renée Zellweger, Brooke Shields, Ashlee Simpson, Melanie Griffith, Michelle Williams, and Christie Brinkley.
Brandy will conclude her limited run in the jazzy show at the Ambassador Theatre on August 2.
Already waiting in the wings is her replacement, Rumer Willis, who will take over Hart for an eight-week stint between August 18 and October 11.
'Beautiful day in #BryantPark for beautiful performances!' The 36-year-old Grammy winner rocked a mega curly bob with an ultra-sheer sleeveless LBD over leggings and T-strap character heels
Thespian: The Game actress made her Broadway debut as murderous, 23-year-old chorus girl Roxie Hart in the Prohibition-era musical
Curtain call coming: Brandy will conclude her limited run in the jazzy show at the Ambassador Theatre on August 2 (pictured April 30)
Both Dancing with the Stars veteran's competed alongside the Chmerkovskiy brothers but, while Brandy was fourth runner-up in 2010, Rumer scored the 2015 Mirrorball Trophy.
However, the daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis - who turns 27 next month - will need to completely recover from a few stress fractures in her right foot.
'Could not be more excited to be making my Broadway debut as Roxie in @chicagomusical!' the Miss USA judge wrote on Instagram Thursday.
Out with the old, and in with the new! Already waiting in the wings is her replacement, Rumer Willis, who will take over Hart for an eight-week stint between August 18 and October 11
She got Val! Both Dancing with the Stars veteran's competed alongside the Chmerkovskiy brothers but, while Brandy was fourth runner-up in 2010, Rumer scored the 2015 Mirrorball Trophy.
'Have to hang up my dancing shoes': However, the daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis - who turns 27 next month - will need to completely recover from a few stress fractures in her right foot
The Miss USA judge wrote on Instagram Thursday: 'Could not be more excited to be making my Broadway debut as Roxie in @chicagomusical!'
Norwood now has her heart set on playing Harlem-style Dorothy Gale in Broadway's 2016 revival of The Wiz.
'That is a dream role for me!' the Mississippi-born belter told the Huffington Post in May.
'It's just something that I really want to experience: being Dorothy on Broadway. I've been putting it out there. So I think the word is getting out that's something I would really like to do.'
Meanwhile, NBC's The Wiz Live is holding auditions next Monday at LA's Third Street Dance for African-American women aged 18-27 to play Dorothy.
Ease on down the road! Norwood now has her heart set on playing Harlem-style Dorothy Gale in Broadway's 2016 revival of The Wiz (Diana Ross pictured in 1978)
'That is a dream role for me!' Meanwhile, NBC's The Wiz Live is holding auditions next Monday at LA's Third Street Dance for African-American women aged 18-27 to play Dorothy
Uh-oh! At 36, the What About Us hitmaker is no longer ingénue and she exceeds the breakdown's age requirements by nine years
At 36, the What About Us hitmaker is no longer ingénue and she exceeds the breakdown's age requirements by nine years.
Brandy currently plays Chardonnay Pitts in the ninth season of the football sitcom The Game, which airs Wednesdays through August 5 on BET.
The contralto songstress is also recording her seventh studio album - dropping next year - which will be the follow-up to her 2012 record Two Eleven.
'It's really going to be a beautiful album. This next one is going to be very special,' Norwood vowed.
Drama queens: Brandy currently plays Chardonnay Pitts in the ninth season of the football sitcom The Game, which airs Wednesdays through August 5 on BET
'It's really going to be a beautiful album': The contralto songstress is also recording her seventh studio album - dropping next year - which will be the follow-up to her 2012 record Two Eleven
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