“Chicago” Cast To Reunite At 2013 Oscars

Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are planning one of the most spectacular Oscar shows to date, with so many performances planned that they have already run out of rehearsal space and dressing rooms too. The duo promised that the 2013 Academy awards will be packed full of “wow moments,” with Meron saying “I don’t think any Oscars have been as performance-based.”

The production duo has had a long history of putting on big shows, producing 2003’s best picture, “Chicago,” and count TV’s “Smash” and the recent Broadway revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” among their stellar credits.

“When you do an Oscar show, you don’t have a dressing room problem. The presenters don’t get dressing rooms. And how many people perform on the Oscars, like one or two?” Zadan said. “We have a staggering amount of performers, and each of them needs a dressing room… We’re measuring the magnitude of how big the show is by the fact that we don’t have (enough) dressing rooms.”

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron revealed on Monday that Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah and Richard Gere will reunite on the very same stage where the “Chicago” movie won its Oscar. But what they wouldn’t say is what song the cast will perform. “We can’t talk about what they’re going to do!” Zadan said.

I.M.