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Chicago, the musical (get Chicago, the musical tickets) is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago. The book is by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the 'celebrity criminal'. Chicago, the musical (get Chicago, the musical tickets) is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes she had reported on.
The original 1975 Broadway production of Chicago, the musical (get Chicago, the musical tickets) ran for a total of 936 performances. Bob Fosse choreographed the original production. Chicago's 1996 Broadway revival holds the record for the longest-running musical revival on Broadway and, as of December 2007, it has played for more than 4,588 performances.
A successful film version of Chicago, the musical (get Chicago, the musical tickets) was released in 2002.
Synopsis of Chicago, the musical
Divided into 2 Acts, the musical narrates the story of Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who has shot her lover and managed to convince her husband that he was a burglar. A vaudevillian who murdered both her husband and her sister when she found them in bed together, Velma, starts the narration of the musical. Truth comes out in due time and Roxie is arrested and sent to the women's block in Cook County Jail, inhabited by Velma and other murderesses. Velma is not happy to see her there as she is stealing the limelight and her lawyer, Billy Flynn.
What happens to Roxie, Velma and Bill, among others, is what gives Chicago, the musical (get Chicago, the musical tickets) its plot. Full of twists, turns and crimes of passion, along with melodious music, Chicago has always managed to keep the audience on the edges of their seats.
The real 'Chicago'
Reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins had been assigned to cover the 1924 trials of murderesses Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner for the Chicago Tribune. Annan, the model for the character of Roxie Hart, was 23 when she was accused of the murder of Harry Kalstedt. She called her husband to say she killed a man who "tried to make love to her". She was found 'not guilty' on May 25, 1924.
Velma is based on Gaertner, who was a cabaret singer. The body of Walter Law was discovered slumped over the steering wheel of Gaertner's abandoned car on March 12, 1924. Two police officers testified that they had seen a woman getting into the car and, shortly thereafter, heard gunshots. Gaertner was acquitted on June 6, 1924. The two lawyers, William Scott Stewart and W. W. O'Brien, were models for a composite character in Chicago, Billy Flynn.
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