The 57-year-old supermodel said playing Roxie Hart on Broadway has been “a complete joy,” with a few slight pitfalls.
“I only cried once during this whole process,” Brinkley told us proudly at her official Broadway “welcoming party” at the Hudson Terrace on Tuesday.
Brinkley, clad in a skintight Marchesa cocktail frock, revealed it was her frustration over a change in a dance routine – an altered transition from one move to another specifically – that temporarily dampened her sunny disposition.
When Amra-Faye Wright, a “Chicago” veteran who plays Velma Kelly, arrived to rehearse routines with the Great White Way newbie, the company decided to switch a move in a dance the two performers shared.
“Transitions are hard, because if you miss one beat you can screw up the whole thing,” the Broadway babe explained.
“All of a sudden, I felt so uncoordinated,” Brinkley confessed. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m making everyone stay here because now I have to learn this new dance step.’ ” That’s when “the tears came.”
Crying aside, Brinkley called a minor muscle injury her “darkest moment” in the show. It pushed back her opening from April 4 to April 8.
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