Mark Ballas talks Chicago on Broadway

When you are back on Broadway as Billy Flynn in Chicago, what made your first run so much fun that you wanted to do it again? Well, the first thing is that I grew up doing musical theater. I went to musical theater school. And Chicago was one of the first shows I ever saw as a child. When I was doing theater, I grew up in England, so it was like the West End seemed like that was the goal. Broadway seemed absolutely unobtainable. So now to be playing Billy Flynn in Chicago on Broadway, longest running American musical of all time, it's just so fun. And the first run was so short. It was only a month. When the Weisers called me and asked me, would you want to do it again? I was like, yeah, okay, yeah. So I'm back. It feels great, just like riding a bike. I'm able to dive even deeper with the character. There's been some changes in the cast as well. It's really fun to discover new things with a show that's been running for so long every night. I'm doing it until August 16th. Obviously, your first time around was with the fabulous Whitney Leavitt. How special was it to get to do the show with her? It was so special just because I think during our run on dancing, a lot of our pieces were quite theatrical. We had, I think, three Broadway-esque numbers. We did a dance to a Chicago song. We did a dance to a Wicked song. We did a dance to a Hamilton song. And Whitney's got that theatrical presence. And that's something that I am really leaning to as a choreographer. So, yeah, to be able to then go into Chicago together, that's a dance that starts first. That's history there. It was fun. We had a blast together. It was so fun.