Musical· 1975· Satire / Farce

Chicago

by John Kander

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Chicago

Film · 2002

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Rob Marshall's film adapts the Kander and Ebb musical about Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, two murderesses in 1920s Chicago who turn their trials into celebrity. It stages most of the songs as fantasies in Roxie's head, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Chicago

Two women awaiting trial for murder in Jazz Age Chicago compete for the same lawyer and the same front pages, on the understanding that a big enough scandal is worth an acquittal. Every number is staged as a vaudeville turn, so the audience is put in the position of the public whose appetite the plot depends on.