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London Chicago Musical

The musical Chicago is the winner of the 1998 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical and is the longest ever running Broadway musical in the West End of London.

This brilliant award winning musical 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 a chorus girl called Roxie, who has murdered her lover but somehow manages to get acquitted with the help 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 another murderess to form a very unusual nightclub act, which they hope will keep them in the public eye. Find out for yourself and see their success.

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in the prohibition era in Chicago. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the concept of the celebrity criminal. The musical is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about real-life criminals and crimes she had reported on.

The show opens with Velma Kelly, who is a vaudevillian who murdered both 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 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.

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Show Information
Booking Until:
30th October 2010

Matinees:
Friday 5:00pmpm and Saturday 3:00pm

Evenings:
Monday to Thursday and Saturday 8:00, Friday 8.30pm

Running Time:
2 hours 20 minutes

Venue Information
Cambridge Theatre
Earlham Street
WC2H 9HU

Directions:
Closest tube station is Covent Garden/Leicester Square.