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How Pamela Anderson Is Finding Her Power

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The actress is stretching her chops making her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the hit musical Chicago
Growing up Pamela Anderson didn’t consider herself a “musical theater” person. “I was too shy and wouldn’t dare,” she explains. However, she did act out commercials for her parents. “My favorite was a perfume ad for Enjoli,” shares Anderson. “I would be in my mom’s Velcro rollers singing, “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and never let you forget you’re a man, because I’m a woman.”
And even though she wasn’t dabbling in musical theater, Anderson did perform in her school chorus and jazz band. “I sang soprano, did the scat solos and played saxophone,” she shares. She got some of that talent from her father. “My Dad is musical. He plays piano, the accordion and the spoons a little like Jerry Lee Lewis,” explains Anderson. All this would ultimately help prep Anderson to play the role of a lifetime, Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago, on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre. As the song goes Roxie is “The name on everybody’s lips…. The lady raking in the chips.”
For Anderson, who is making her Broadway debut, it was a herculean task, but so worth it. “Technically it is tremendous work: the choreography, the script, the singing,” says Anderson who rehearsed every day for two weeks in Los Angeles and then one month in New York. “I was determined. I am determined,” adds Anderson who is playing Roxie though June 5. “The character grows, and I never stop learning. I just need to stay open and know the work is in me. It’s such an incredible and worthwhile challenge.”
This sultry gem of a show about “murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery” and the power of believing in your magic was created by the theater’s greatest geniuses. John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote the music and lyrics.

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