Starring:
VELMA KELLY: Vaughn Easterday; ROXIE HART: Savanna Sanford; BILLY FLYNN: Lark Vance; AMOS HART: Carlos Hernandez

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A Broadway phenomenon since its inception in 1975, Chicago will have you signing and dancing in your seat. Based on a real life account of high profile Chicago murderesses in the 1920s, the tale focuses on two women both accused of killing their lovers, and their journeys to freedom, the gallows, or ultimate fame on the vaudeville stage. 

The Story

Velma Kelly is a glamorous cabaret performer awaiting trial for the murder of her philandering husband and twin sister in Cook County Jail. Having grown used to her infamy and celebrity status as the 'wronged woman' she is furious when she finds herself upstaged by a seemingly innocent ingenue, chorus girl Roxie Hart, a firstly timid but later ambitious go-getter who threatens Velma's carefully cultivated limelight. With an equally ambitious and money-minded lawyer, Billy Flynn, the two women embark on a cold war of sorts, upstaging each other to reclaim the public's love, and to escape the hangman's noose.

This starts a battle over the charismatic Flynn's attentions, which Velma and Roxie must compete to get themselves off death row and onto the stage where they believe their infamy will draw in the crowds. Throw into the mix a corrupt prison warden called Mama Morton, who accepts money in exchange for privileges, and the action behind bars heats up whilst their fellow prisoners are left to fend for themselves at the mercy of the public defenders. Will they both escape the executioner? Or will their bickering prevail in sending them both to the gallows instead of the vaudeville stage?