A Front Row Seat as Pamela Anderson’s Super Fans Swarm Broadway’s ‘Chicago’
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterOutside New York City’s Ambassador Theatre, the name on everybody’s lips isn’t Roxie. It’s Pamela Anderson, the former “Baywatch” star who is making her Broadway debut in “Chicago” as Roxie Hart.“I never see Broadway shows,” said one particularly well-dressed theatergoer, who nonetheless stood in a long line to scan his ticket on a rainy Monday night.
He’d make an exception for Anderson.Anderson, who rose to fame as a Playboy model before donning that famous red swimsuit on “Baywatch,” isn’t known for singing or dancing (aside from a stint on “Dancing With the Stars”).
Nevertheless, she’s made the leap to the Great White Way. In a prior era, who knows how receptive the public would be to Anderson’s debut on stage; she’s spent more of her career as a punchline than a performer.
But times have changed and so have attitudes toward Anderson, who has returned to the public consciousness as her life is being dramatized in the unauthorized Hulu series “Pam & Tommy” (where she’s played by Lily James).
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