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3 days ago · Calling all Roxie's and Velma's, it's time to rank the best songs from Chicago.Adapted from the 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, the 1975 musical by John Kander and the 2002 film starring Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones gave us some of the most popular musical songs in Broadway history.
5 days ago · Mae Whitman and Jane Levy join forces and hold hands to share the history of two women who teamed up to outsmart the Murderess Row in 1924 and get themselves aquitted. Their actions, as documented by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, went on to inspire Fosse's musical Chicago.
4 days ago · After covering the 1924 murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner (both were acquitted) for the Chicago Tribune, Maurine Dallas Watkins wrote a play, Chicago, that was based on their respective trials, with Beulah being the inspiration for Roxie and Belva serving as the inspiration for Velma. While the play was adapted into some works during Watkins’s lifetime, the play got new life after Watkins’s death when her estate sold adaptation rights to a group including Bob Fosse.
4 days ago · CHICAGO, which is based on the 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, has a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1996 Broadway revival of CHICAGO is choreographed by Tony Award winner Ann Reinking in the style of Bob Fosse and is directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie.
4 days ago · Chicago - The Musical is a touring Broadway show based on Maurine Dallas Watkins’ 1926 version of the play about a universal tale of fame, fortune and all that jazz. The musical is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the “celebrity criminal.”
