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Chicago Synopsis - Broadway musical Two girls of dazzling appearance, each of which was the star of the scenes of various sizes, are found in the same block in prison, where they were jailed for murder that they have done.
With catchy, sexy music and timeless lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and a funny, intelligent, and utterly engaging book by Kander and Bob Fosse, Chicago is a musical spectacular that is as addictive as gossip rags and as unforgettable as any trial of the century.
It is the mid-1920s, in Chicago Illinois. Velma Kelly, who, with her sister, performed a famous and popular double-act (until Velma is arrested for the murder of her sister and husband, who she found in bed together) welcomes the audience to the show (“All That Jazz”).
Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported.
Chicago is a play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins. The play, while fiction, is a satire based on two unrelated 1924 court cases involving two women, Beulah Annan (the inspiration for Roxie Hart ) and Belva Gaertner (the inspiration for Velma Kelly ), who were both suspected and later acquitted of murder, whom Watkins had covered for the ...
' CHICAGO than an hour. . . . And Martin S. Harrison is here from the State's Attorney's office---he's talkin' to the wife. And O baby, she's a red-hot mama with an angel face! We'll run her in the picture. . . . Amos: Picture?
Chicago, Illinois. The 1920s are roaring with hot jazz and cold-blooded killers. As the Overture ends, we're introduced to Velma Kelly-- a vaudevillian who shot her husband and the other half of her sister act when she caught them in bed together.
