Chicago
If you can't be famous, be infamous.
ComedyCrimeDramaprisonchicago, illinoisgallowsmusicalbased on play or musicaljaillawyerexecutionnoosehangingburlesqueprison matron
A stylish, darkly comic musical about ambition and notoriety in Jazz Age Chicago, where two murderers weaponize fame to escape execution.
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Essence
Ensemble
Renée Zellweger
Roxie Hart
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Velma Kelly
Richard Gere
Billy Flynn
Queen Latifah
Matron Mama Morton
Ekaterina Chtchelkanova
Katalin Helinski "Hunyak"
John C. Reilly
Amos Hart
Christine Baranski
Mary Sunshine
Lucy Liu
Kitty Baxter
Taye Diggs
Bandleader
Colm Feore
Harrison
Dominic West
Fred Casely
Mya
Mona
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