Chicago is an American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age, the musical is based on the 1926 play of the same name by M
Original Broadway poster art
M. O'Haughey as Mary Sunshine and Jerry Orbach as Billy Flynn in the original Broadway cast, 1976
Chicago: The Musical at the Ambassador Theatre, New York, May 2010
Chicago playing at the West End's Cambridge Theatre in December 2010
Chicago is a play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins. The play, while fiction, is a satire based on two unrelated 1924 court cases involving two women, Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner, who were both ac
Chicago (musical)
…American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age, the musical is based on the 1926 play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins, then a journalist covering the city's courthouse beat. A satire on corruption in the administration of…
Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner, 1924
Chicago Tribune image depicting the 1927 Chicago production of the play.
Adaptation in Pécs, Hungary, January 2024