Sopranos Stars Aida Turturro and Vincent Pastore Headed to Chicago
Aida Turturro and Vincent Pastore, who played Janice Soprano and Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on the hit TV series The Sopranos, have signed on to play Matron "Mama" Morton and Amos Hart in the Broadway company of Chicago. They will join the cast on November 19 and appear through January 18, 2008, at the Ambassador Theatre, replacing Adriane Lenox and Rob Bartlett.
Turturro played Eunice in the 1992 Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire with Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin. Her Sopranos sibling, James Gandolfini, appeared in the same production as Steve. In 2005, she co-starred with her real-life cousin, John Turturro, in the off-Broadway production of Souls of Naples.
Pastore told the Associated Press that he has not sung or danced on stage since the beginning of his career when he did community theater. ''It looks like a tough schedule, but I will get used to it,'' he said of eight shows a week. ''This is my first Broadway experience. It's going to be a lot of hard work, but I'm sure we're going to have a lot of fun.''
