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. Currently playing at the Cambridge theatre Chicago is a brilliant musical.
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 account about Roxie, a chorus girl who has murdered her lover but manages to get acquitted through the help of a sleazy lawyer. Roxie dreams of starring in a vaudeville show however she merely achieves celebrity popularity when she rides on the wave associated with hype associated with her trial acquittal. She teams up with another murderess, Velma Kelly, to create a rather unusual nightclub act, that they anticipate will help keep them within the public eye. Find out for yourself and see their success.
The musical is based in the roaring 1920's with no shortage of sizzling jazz - and also cold-blooded killers!.....songs include 'All That Jazz', 'Funny Honey', 'Mr Cellophane', 'Nowadays' and 'Razzle Dazzle'. Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical that is set in prohibition years Chicago. The tale is a satire about corruption inside the administration of criminal justice, and also the concept of the superstar criminal. The musical is founded on a 1926 play of the identical name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins with regards to real-life criminals and crimes she had reported on. Two of the main real-life personalities are Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner : Annan, the model for the figure of Roxie Hart, was twenty-three when she was charged with the homicide 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.
The actual show starts up with Velma Kelly, that is a vaudevillian that murdered both her husband and also her sister when she found them between the sheets 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.
Brief history of the Cambridge Theatre: The Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre, on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials, in the London Borough of Camden, built in 1929-30. It was designed by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie; interior partly by Serge Chermayeff (an interior designer with the firm of Waring & Gillow), with interior bronze friezes by sculptor Anthony Gibbons Grinling. The theatre was built for Bertie Meyer. The theatre is built in steel and concrete and is notable for its elegant design. The theatre was refurbished during 1950 with the original gold and silver decor being painted over in red, and candelabras and chandeliers being added. In 1987, in order to restore the original dcor, the theatre was once again refurbished, this time by Carl Toms. The theatre has a circular entrance foyer, with Grinling's bronze frieze depicting nude figures in exercise poses, the theme continues into the main foyer, with dancing nudes, marble pilaster uplighters and concealed lighting.
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 account about Roxie, a chorus girl who has murdered her lover but manages to get acquitted through the help of a sleazy lawyer. Roxie dreams of starring in a vaudeville show however she merely achieves celebrity popularity when she rides on the wave associated with hype associated with her trial acquittal. She teams up with another murderess, Velma Kelly, to create a rather unusual nightclub act, that they anticipate will help keep them within the public eye. Find out for yourself and see their success.
The musical is based in the roaring 1920's with no shortage of sizzling jazz - and also cold-blooded killers!.....songs include 'All That Jazz', 'Funny Honey', 'Mr Cellophane', 'Nowadays' and 'Razzle Dazzle'. Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical that is set in prohibition years Chicago. The tale is a satire about corruption inside the administration of criminal justice, and also the concept of the superstar criminal. The musical is founded on a 1926 play of the identical name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins with regards to real-life criminals and crimes she had reported on. Two of the main real-life personalities are Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner : Annan, the model for the figure of Roxie Hart, was twenty-three when she was charged with the homicide 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.
The actual show starts up with Velma Kelly, that is a vaudevillian that murdered both her husband and also her sister when she found them between the sheets 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.
Brief history of the Cambridge Theatre: The Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre, on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials, in the London Borough of Camden, built in 1929-30. It was designed by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie; interior partly by Serge Chermayeff (an interior designer with the firm of Waring & Gillow), with interior bronze friezes by sculptor Anthony Gibbons Grinling. The theatre was built for Bertie Meyer. The theatre is built in steel and concrete and is notable for its elegant design. The theatre was refurbished during 1950 with the original gold and silver decor being painted over in red, and candelabras and chandeliers being added. In 1987, in order to restore the original dcor, the theatre was once again refurbished, this time by Carl Toms. The theatre has a circular entrance foyer, with Grinling's bronze frieze depicting nude figures in exercise poses, the theme continues into the main foyer, with dancing nudes, marble pilaster uplighters and concealed lighting.
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