As we celebrate the 25th anniversary - you’ve got to come see why the name on everyone’s lips is still… CHICAGO. This triumphant hit musical is the recipient of 6 Tony Awards ®, 2 Olivier Awards, a GRAMMY ®, and thousands of standing ovations. There’s never been a better time to experience CHICAGO, Broadway’s razzle-dazzle smash. With a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, CHICAGO is the #1 longest-running American musical in Broadway history – and it still shows no sign of ever slowing down! Produced by Apex Touring, CHICAGOis the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards Ⓡ including Best Musical Revival and the GRAMMY Award Ⓡ for Best Musical Cast Recording. The cast also includes Michelle Attardo, Lincoln Belford, Cate Benioff, Megan Campbell, Tony Carrubba, Jess DiForte, Robert “Shapiro” Garris, Ed Gotthelf, Jasmine Janae, Tal Kedem, Liz Lester, Chase McFadden, Sammy Tuchman, Asher Van Meter, Evy Vaughan and James Vessell. PHOTO: Jeremy Daniel | South Pasadenan News | Katie Frieden as Roxy in Chicago 25th Anniversary Tour. The cast of CHICAGO features Katie Frieden as Roxie Hart, Logan Floyd as Velma Kelly, Jeff Brooks as Billy Flynn, Christina Wells as Matron “Mama” Morton, Brian Kalinowski as Amos Hart and G.A. CHICAGO is celebrating with their 25th Anniversary Tour that arrives May 16 –21, 2023 for eight performances only at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa. There have been two non-musical films of the story: "Chicago" in 1927 and "Roxie Hart" starring Ginger Rogers, in 1942.PHOTO: Jeremy Daniel | South Pasadenan News | Logan Floyd and the Company of Chicago 25th Anniversary Tour.ĬHICAGO is BACK IN TOWN, and after 25 years, CHICAGO is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one show stopping song after another and the most astonishing dancing you’ve ever seen. The darkly comic material, slicked up with a hot tin-and-brass sound by orchestrator Ralph Burns, who died recently, is based on a 1926 play, Chicago, by Maurine Dallas Watkins. Both played murderesses in the Windy City of the Roaring '20s who use slick lawyer Billy Flynn to get out of jail and into vaudeville careers. The 1975 staging starred Gwen Verdon as Roxie and Chita Rivera as Velma. 11, 1996, and talks of a film version have lasted nearly as long. The Chicago revival opened on Broadway on Nov. Along the way, such names as Goldie Hawn, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell were bandied about as casting possibilities, and Larry Gelbart and Wendy Wasserstein were mentioned as possible scribes.
#Chicago razzle dazzle movie#
Plans to make a movie version of Chicago have dragged on for years. The score by composer Kander and lyricist Ebb is considered one of the best from the team, and includes "Razzle Dazzle," "All I Care About," "Cell Block Tango," "A Little Bit of Good," "I Can't Do It Alone," "My Own Best Friend," "Roxie" and "All That Jazz." *
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The stage show has a free-wheeling, presentational vaudeville frame - the story is told as a series of vaudeville specialty numbers (the fan dance, the ventriloquist act, the sad clown number, etc.). It is not yet clear how screenwriter Condon is adapting the libretto by Ebb and Fosse into a film script. The movie is expected to be released at Christmas 2002. Paul Bogaev (TV's "Cinderella" and "Annie") is music director. (Britney Spears has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the bit part of "Go to Hell Kitty.") Reilly as Amos and R&B singer Mya as cellblock girl Mona. 12 in Toronto for the new feature-film musical, "Chicago," which draws on elements from the smash 1975 John Kander-Fred Ebb-Bob Fosse musical that is still enjoying a hit revival run on Broadway.ĭirected and choreographed by Rob Marshall, who scored big with TV's "Annie," the film is produced by Marty Richards and Miramax's Harvey Weinstein and executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron of Storyline Entertainment.Ī spokesman confirmed that the picture (with screenplay by Bill Condon) will star Renee Zellwegger as Roxie, Catherine Zeta Jones as Velma, Richard Gere as Billy Flynn, Queen Latifah as Matron Mama Morton, Christine Baranski as Mary Sunshine, John C.
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