Monday, February 15, 2010

Matthew Settle to Make Broadway Debut in Chicago


Matthew Settle, who currently stars as Rufus on the CW Network’s “Gossip Girl,” will make his Broadway debut as Billy Flynn in the Tony-winning revival of Kander and Ebb’s Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre.
Settle will play a ten-week limited engagement as the slick lawyer beginning March 29. He will stay with the long-running production through June 6.
Settle has also been seen on screen in “Into the West,” “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,” “U-571,” “The Mystery of Natalie Wood,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “The Practice” and “ER.” He will next been seen in the film “Ex-Terminators.”
Chicago won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 1997 as well as awards for actors Bebe Neuwirth and James Naughton, director Walter Bobbie, lighting designer Ken Billington and choreographer Ann Reinking. The original production was directed and choreographed by the late Bob Fosse.
Chicago plays the Ambassador Theatre, located at 219 West 49th Street.
Visit www.ChicagoTheMusical.com for more information.