Angelica Ross will be the first trans lead in 'Chicago' on Broadway

(CNN)Chicago is Broadway's longest-running revival -- and even after more than 25 years, the production is still making history.

Next month, the leading role of fame-hungry murderess Roxie Hart will be played by Angelica Ross, the production announced Thursday. Ross will be the first out transgender actress to step into Roxie's T-strap shoes on Broadway, according to the Hollywood Reporter, and one of the first trans women to play a leading role on Broadway.

Ross is best known for her role as Candy Ferocity, a young trans woman who regularly competed in New York's ballroom scene, on the Emmy-winning series Pose. The FX drama featured the largest cast of trans actors on a TV series, outlets reported ahead of its 2018 premiere.

With her casting, Ross joins a small but formidable group of Black trans women who've bowed on Broadway: In 2018, Peppermint of RuPaul's Drag Race fame starred in the Go-Go's musical Head Over Heels, and this season, L Morgan Lee earned a Tony nomination for her role in best musical winner A Strange Loop. The upcoming revival of 1776 will also include trans and nonbinary cast members.