Show Overview

To quote the show’s opening line - Chicago, ... “a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery ... all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts.” Chicago is a Roaring Twenties Jazz musical, satire. With a book by Kander and Ebb, and staging by Bob Fosse, Chicago, penned in 1967, is a multiple Tony Award winning, pulse racing, Jazz musical adventure.

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Synopsis

Chicago is a tale of two celebrity murderesses who conspire and charm their way to freedom, fame and fortune.

Set in the Jazz era Chicago of the 1920’s, it tells the story of two Femme fatales, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly. Roxie murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap... until he finds out he's been dumped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in their search for the "American Dream": fame, fortune, and

acquittal.