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Lindsay Roginski will perform in Chicago as Roxie at Ohio University tonight.

Actress Lindsay Roginski will play famed murderess Roxie Hart in the award-winning musical Chicago at tonight’s sold-out performance in Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The Ohio native took a moment to talk with The Post’s Katherine Bercik about what she brings to Roxie, how the stage performance is different from the 2002 Academy Award-winning movie and what it took to get where she is today.

The Post: When was the first time you saw Chicago?
Lindsay Roginski: I probably saw it when I was 16 or 17, and it was my first Broadway show that I ever saw. It inspired me to be in musical theater. When I moved to New York during school, my very first job was selling souvenir programs at the Broadway company of Chicago, so I could watch it every night and learn it and get to see the best of the best do it, in hopes that one day I could.
Post: What do you think you bring to your version of Roxie?
Roginski: Roxie’s character is written so well and so clear that pretty much anybody sees that. But as far as me personally, I think I bring a vulnerability to her that you really need to see because she does do these things — she kills her lover in the very first scene — and you see her go through this tremendous journey from nothing to a huge star and then nothing again. Throughout the course of the show you have to feel for Roxie, otherwise it doesn’t work.
Post: So it’s very different from the Renee Zellweger version in the 2002 movie adaptation?
Roginski: Yeah, I think she played it really hard. You know, she played it really tough and that’s not at all how I play it. She had more of a backbone, I guess you’d say.
Post: Many of the audience members tonight will probably be more familiar with the movie, so how do you think they will react to this version?
Roginski: I think audiences will adapt very well. I mean, you can’t show it in a movie, but the neat thing about the show is that it’s very minimal. There are no real set pieces. This story is timeless. It’s all about somebody getting famous for all the wrong reasons. You know, your 15 minutes of fame, these murderers who kill people and they are all over the news and that’s exactly what they want, and, unfortunately, the media goes crazy with it.