CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
COVER GIRL’S FINEST SHOOTS FOR FAME IN CHICAGO
by bill biss
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY LAUNCHED OVER 500 MAGAZINE COVERS IN HER CAREER. She also is the only model to appear on three consecutive “swimsuit” issues forSports Illustrated. Oh, and let’s not forget that Brinkley also holds the record for the longest “Cover Girl” contract in the history of the cosmetics giant. Now, is she so much more than a woman with a pretty face and figure? You betchya! Christie is also an artist, businesswoman and activist. She has led an adventurous journey so far. In what she coined her “Broadway Ad-
venture” Brinkley took to the Great White Way as “Roxie Hart” in the eternally popular musical production of Chicago. After a successful Broadway and London run in the show, she now embarks on the National Tour. This supermodel and mother of three takes to the stage at San Diego’s Civic Theatre fromTuesday, May 8 through Sun- day, May 13and atLos Angeles’s Pantages TheatrefromTuesday, May 15 through Sunday, May 27. Here for The Rage Monthly, Christie Brinkley takes us along for a ride on the road to “Roxie” and shares her thoughts on her experience of being a “star.”
Can you share some of your emotions when the producers of Chicago initially asked you to portray “Roxie?” My agent was thumbing through some papers of various offers that would come
on. He ran down the list and then he said, “and Chicago is interested… you’d play ‘Roxie’ or ‘Velma’…and so and so is wondering…” And, I went, “Wait a minute. What? Chicago the musical?”He said, “Yeah, yeah but it’s really time-consuming… I’ll tell them you wouldn’t have time for that.” I said, “Wait, wait. Back it up. ‘Chicago the musi- cal’ is interested in me? Well… oh, my gosh.” I couldn’t, I thought they made a mistake and the offer came through to the wrong person. I said, “Can you just double check that?” He said, “No, no, no, they’re interested in
you!” So, I asked for the script and the CD. I remembered seeing it when Ann Reinking and Bebe Neuwirth were in it. As I recall, they were knotted up like pretzels in preci- sion and dance moves that Yogi Masters wouldn’t be able to do. So, I listened to the tape and read the script and said, “Oh, my gosh. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life wondering ‘if I woulda, shoulda, coulda.’ I want to audition and see what happens.” Who would think they would take me? I knew that it was something that I needed to embrace and just give it every ounce of my energy. That started my great Broadway adventure. I’m so happy I did… I could have simply said, “No.”
30 RAGE monthly | MAY 2012
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