Ariana Madix Returning to ‘Chicago’ Amid Potential ‘VPR’ Filming Break

Ariana Madix is not expressing goodbye to her Chicago character, Roxie Hart, just yet.

“One is never ever plenty of! @arianamadix returns to CHICAGO on Broadway August 1 – 27th!” the formal Chicago account posted by using Instagram on Monday, Could 6.

Madix, 38, was predicted to conclude her run in March, but she extended the gig right until April due to well known desire. Now, she’s introducing a number of August dates to her calendar.

The Vanderpump Principles star built her Broadway debut in January, just 1 month after her casting information was declared. Madix unveiled at the time that it’s been her “lifelong dream” to star on Broadway.

“It is basically the purpose why nearly anything else has at any time took place,” Madix gushed during an job interview with Additional. “It’s the rationale why I majored in theater … it’s the rationale why I lived [in NYC] so long back. It’s in the end even the reason I moved to L.A. in the initial place, so it’s crazy.”

The news of Madix’s return to Chicago arrives as numerous outlets are reporting that Bravo might consider a split from filming new episodes of VPR period 12. The network reportedly feels like the cast might need a breather following filming following Tom Sandoval and Rachel “Raquel” Leviss’ dishonest scandal in March 2023. (It is also rumored that Madix’s gig as the host of Appreciate Island time 6 could be enjoying a position in the pause.)

Sandoval, 40, seemingly confirmed that VPR would not be filming period 12 in the course of the summer season months as it has completed so formerly.

“I consider just one of the items is that, coming out of this scandal, it was like we picked up filming appropriate when all the things initially happened,” Sandoval described through an appearance on Fox’s New Day Cleveland on Wednesday, May possibly 1. “And then we variety of had a really shorter crack and then correct into filming this time that you are observing now, period 11.”

Sandoval pointed out that there was normally a fast all around, saying, “What would stop up happening, manufacturing would just be down, the final episode of the time, the reunion, then our secrets unveiled or whatever it is, would air and then it is maybe a couple weeks and we would be back again into filming yet again.”

But with the likely hiatus, Sandoval extra that the cast users would get a genuine break.

“They just wanna give it some time to breathe, consider a break, maybe, I’m really enthusiastic about it,” he claimed. “Because it is like every single 12 months we movie my birthday. We film Scheana [Shay]’s birthday at occasions or regardless of what. To variety of have a various time of the 12 months, it could possibly bring a fresh new sort of experience to our demonstrate.”