Chicago is the winner of the 1998 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production and is the longest ever running Broadway musical revival 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 obtain acquitted with the aid 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 one more murderess, Velma Kelly, to form a really unusual nightclub act, which they hope will preserve them within the public eye. Come across out for yourself and see their achievement.
Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago. The story is actually a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the idea of the celebrity criminal. The musical is based on a 1926 play of exactly 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 Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner:
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 just before calling her husband to say she killed a man who "tried to make really like to her." She was located "not guilty" on May 25th, 1924.
The show opens with Velma Kelly, who's a vaudevillian who murdered each 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 towards the women's block in Cook County Jail, inhabited by Velma as well as other murderesses. The block is presided more than by the corrupt Matron Mama Morton, who has helped Velma become the media's leading murder of the week and is acting as a booking agent for Velma's big return to vaudeville. Velma just isn't pleased to determine Roxie, who is stealing not just her limelight but her lawyer, Billy Flynn. The show goes on and is a great must see show.
The Garrick Theatre was developed by Walter Emden, with CJ Phipps brought in as a consultant to help with the planning on this hard internet site, which included an underground river.
The theatre was built for W.S. Gilbert, who was responsible for the book and lyrics of all the Savoy Operas with Sir Arthur Sullivan. The theatre opened on 24th April, 1889. It is named soon after David Garrick, the renowned 18th Century actor . It has retained its Victorian functions. In 1889 Sir John Hare produced and starred in the Profligate with Johnston Forbes Robertson and Lewis Waller.
Originally the theatre had 800 seats on 4 levels, but the gallery (top) level has given that been closed as well as the seating capacity reduced to 656. The lovely gold leaf auditorium was restored in 1986 by the stage designer Carl Toms and in 1997 the front facade had a facelift. The theatre has mostly been related to comedies or comedy-dramas.
Recent productions include a No Sex Please We're British, which then subsequently transferred towards the Duchess Theatre in August 1986. On 24th October 1995 the Royal National Theatre's multi-award winning production of JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls opened here, having played profitable seasons in the RNT's Lyttelton and Olivier theatres too as the Aldwych theatre as well as a season on Broadway. The theatre is at the moment owned by Nimax Theatres.
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 obtain acquitted with the aid 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 one more murderess, Velma Kelly, to form a really unusual nightclub act, which they hope will preserve them within the public eye. Come across out for yourself and see their achievement.
Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago. The story is actually a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the idea of the celebrity criminal. The musical is based on a 1926 play of exactly 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 Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner:
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 just before calling her husband to say she killed a man who "tried to make really like to her." She was located "not guilty" on May 25th, 1924.
The show opens with Velma Kelly, who's a vaudevillian who murdered each 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 towards the women's block in Cook County Jail, inhabited by Velma as well as other murderesses. The block is presided more than by the corrupt Matron Mama Morton, who has helped Velma become the media's leading murder of the week and is acting as a booking agent for Velma's big return to vaudeville. Velma just isn't pleased to determine Roxie, who is stealing not just her limelight but her lawyer, Billy Flynn. The show goes on and is a great must see show.
The Garrick Theatre was developed by Walter Emden, with CJ Phipps brought in as a consultant to help with the planning on this hard internet site, which included an underground river.
The theatre was built for W.S. Gilbert, who was responsible for the book and lyrics of all the Savoy Operas with Sir Arthur Sullivan. The theatre opened on 24th April, 1889. It is named soon after David Garrick, the renowned 18th Century actor . It has retained its Victorian functions. In 1889 Sir John Hare produced and starred in the Profligate with Johnston Forbes Robertson and Lewis Waller.
Originally the theatre had 800 seats on 4 levels, but the gallery (top) level has given that been closed as well as the seating capacity reduced to 656. The lovely gold leaf auditorium was restored in 1986 by the stage designer Carl Toms and in 1997 the front facade had a facelift. The theatre has mostly been related to comedies or comedy-dramas.
Recent productions include a No Sex Please We're British, which then subsequently transferred towards the Duchess Theatre in August 1986. On 24th October 1995 the Royal National Theatre's multi-award winning production of JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls opened here, having played profitable seasons in the RNT's Lyttelton and Olivier theatres too as the Aldwych theatre as well as a season on Broadway. The theatre is at the moment owned by Nimax Theatres.
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