Tickets for Chicago - The Musical

 

As part of the City Center "Encores!" Series, Chicago he musical was revived in 1996, directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed "in the style of Bob Fosse" by Ann Reinking.  Chicago the musical, first performed in 1975, based on the play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins.  Chicago the musical was adapted for the movie Chicago in 2002, starring Renée Zellweger as Roxie and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma.  Chicago the musical was produced in 1975, starring Chita Rivera as Velma Kelly, Gwen Verdon as Roxie Hart, and Jerry Orbach as Billy Flynn.  Chicago the musical was translated into French in 2003 for performance in Quebec, and was subsequently adapted again for France by the French humorist Laurent Ruquier in 2004.  Gwen Verdon read the play and asked her ex-husband Bob Fosse about the possibility of creating a musical based on it.  The play Chicago was Watkins' retelling of two very public trials for murder that occurred in Chicago in 1924, those of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner.  This version Chicago the musical, which transferred to Broadway, opened on November 14, 1996 and is still running as of August 2006. 

 

 

 

 

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