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Chicago is the winner of the 1998 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical and is the longest ever running Broadway musical in London's West End.

This award winning production is filled with superb choreography written by Bob Fosse. The show is about murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, violence, adultery & treachery, so begins the musical. The twenties are roaring with hot jazz and cold-blooded killers.

Chicago is the story of Roxie, a chorus girl who has murdered her lover but manages to get acquitted with the help of a sleazy lawyer. Roxie dreams of starring in a vaudeville show but she only achieves celebrity status when she rides on the wave of publicity surrounding her courtroom acquittal. She teams up with another murderess to form a very unusual nightclub act, which they hope will keep them in the public eye. Find out for yourself and see their success.

The musical is based in the roaring 1920's with lots of hot jazz - and cold-blooded killers!.....songs include 'All That Jazz', 'Funny Honey', 'Mr Cellophane', 'Nowadays' and 'Razzle Dazzle'.
Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the concept of the celebrity criminal. The musical is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about real-life criminals and crimes she had reported on. Two of the main real-life characters are Annan and Velma: Alma, the model for the character of Roxie Hart, was 23 when she was accused of the murder of Harry Kalstedt. The Tribune reported that Annan played the foxtrot record Hula Lou over and over for two hours before calling her husband to say she killed a man who "tried to make love to her." She was found "not guilty" on May 25th, 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 12th, 1924. Two police officers testified that they had seen a woman getting into the car and shortly thereafter heard the sound of gunshots. A bottle of gin and an automatic pistol were found on the floor of the car. Gaertner was acquitted on June 6th, 1924 The two lawyers, William Scott Stewart and W. W. O'Brien, were models for a composite character in Chicago, Billy Flynn.

Dallas-Watkins' sensational newspaper columns ducumenting these trials proved so popular that she decided to write a play based on them. The show received popular and critical acclaim and it was shown on Broadway in 1926. American dancer and actress Gwen Verdon read the play and asked her husband, Bob Fosse, about the possibility of creating a musical based on it. Fosse approached Watkins numerous times to ask her permission to adapt the play as a musical, but he was rejected each time. Upon Watkins’ death in 1969, she bequeathed that the rights to Chicago be sold to Verdon and Fosse. John Kander and Fred Ebb began work on the score, modelling it in a vaudeville style.

The show opens with Velma Kelly, who is a vaudevillian who murdered both her husband and her sister when she found them in bed together. She welcomes the audience to tonight's show ("All That Jazz"). Meanwhile, we hear of chorus girl Roxie Hart's murder of her lover, nightclub regular Fred Casely.

Roxie is arrested and is sent to the women's block in Cook County Jail, inhabited by Velma and other murderesses. The block is presided over by the corrupt Matron Mama Morton, who has helped Velma become the media's top murder of the week and is acting as a booking agent for Velma's big return to vaudeville. Velma is not happy to see Roxie, who is stealing not only her limelight but her lawyer, Billy Flynn. The show goes on and is a great must see show.

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Chicago The Musical at Cambridge Theatre London West End

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Currently Booking Until:
30th October 2010

Matinees:
Friday 4:30pm and Saturday 3:00pm

Evenings:
Monday to Saturday 8:00pm

Running Time:
2 hours 20 minutes

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Earlham Street, Seven Dials
London WC2H 9HU

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Nearest Underground: Covent Garden and
Leicester Square
Bus Routes: 14, 19, 24, 29, 38, 176
Nearest Rail: Charing Cross

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