Trans actor Angelica Ross to make history on Broadway

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Published September 8, 2022 10:01 AM

By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — The fictional character Roxie Hart has many awful attributes, she’s adulterous, narcissistic, scheming, manipulating and murderous. Next week she’ll also be something unexpected: Inspirational. “Pose” star Angelica Ross on Monday will step onstage in Hart’s high heels, becoming the first openly transgender woman to play a leading part on Broadway. She joins a Broadway that is starting to open its arms to transgender actors. Set in the 1920s, “Chicago” is a scathing satire of how show business and the media make celebrities out of criminals. Ross, whose credits also include “American Horror Story: 1984,” “Transparent,” “Claws,” “Doubt,” will have an eight-week run.

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