Reinking’s career came full circle in 1996 with the Broadway revival of Chicago, staged nine years after the director and choreographer’s death. The 1975 original had been a well reviewed but only modestly successful musical, hampered by the fact that it opened during the same season as that critical and commercial juggernaut A Chorus Line. (Both Verdon and her costar, Chita Rivera, were nominated for a Tony that year but lost out to A Chorus Line’s Donna McKechnie.)
