Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery, treachery… and All That Jazz… so begins the international multi-award-winning musical. The longest-running musical on Broadway, Chicago is now playing in Melbourne, followed by Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra.
Set amidst the decadence of the 1920s, Chicago is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her. Desperate to avoid conviction, she dupes the public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer Billy Flynn to transform her malicious crime into a barrage of sensational headlines, the likes of which might just as easily be ripped from today’s tabloids.
It stars Anthony Warlow as Billy Flynn; Zoë Ventoura as nightclub singer and vaudevillian Velma Kelly; Lucy Maunder as Roxie Hart; Peter Rowsthorn as Roxie’s gullible and hapless husband, Amos; and Asabi Goodman as sassy prison warden Matron ‘Mama’ Morton.
For more information and tickets, go to: chicagomusical.com.au.
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