Pamela Anderson set to make her Broadway debut in Chicago

Actress and activist Pamela Anderson (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

One of the planet’s biggest celebrities will play a woman desperately craving fame when Pamela Anderson makes her Broadway debut next month in the musical Chicago.

Anderson will play Roxie Hart from April 12 to June 5 at the Ambassador Theatre, a remarkable union of one of the most recognisable sex icons of the last few decades with a show that skewers fame.