NEW YORK — Former Ohio State and NFL star and Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George will make his Broadway debut in the musical Chicago, tackling the role of fast-talking lawyer Billy Flynn.
George, who won the Heisman in 1995 for his play at Ohio State and went on to a nine-year career in the NFL, leading the Tennessee Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV, will start work at the Ambassador Theatre in January..
He has appeared in Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man at the Nashville Repertory Theatre, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog at the Amun Ra Theatre, also in Nashville, and played both Othello and Julius Caesar at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.