Michael Vita remembers when the musical “Chicago” opened on Broadway in 1975. He remembers because he was there as part of the dance ensemble.
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As "Chicago" celebrates its 50th anniversary, audiences across the country are once again captivated by its sharp satire, iconic choreography, and unforgettable music.
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Despite being on Broadway and various tours around the world for 50 years, the musical “Chicago” still endures. Written in 1975 with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, the latest incarnation of “Chicago” is still a razzle dazzle hit musical, playing only this week at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami through Sunday, June 22.
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The national touring company of the musical "Chicago" comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center starting Tuesday, June 17. One of the members of the company has local roots in Miami.
Read More on Miami Art ZineMIAMI — It’s time to give ‘em the old “razzle, dazzle!” “Chicago” the musical is making a stop at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. It’s the last stop of the tour during the musical’s 50th anniversary!
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Michael Vita remembers when the musical “Chicago” opened on Broadway. He remembers because he was there as part of the dance ensemble.
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Two dancing stars from the Broadway tour of 'Chicago' are eager to experience New Orleans
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Hop, boom, bip! And all that jazz! The anticipated musical Chicago, directed by Walter Bobbie, has finally landed at the Hippodrome in all its 1920s glory, bringing to a close the theater’s 2024/25 season of amazing shows.
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been 50 years since Chicago opened on Broadway, actually under the title Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville because of the show’s structure and the fact that many of the characters were based on well-known performers of the era — the 1920s.
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“Chicago the Musical,” originally subtitled “A Musical Vaudeville,” with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse, is set in the 1920s Jazz Age and based on a 1926 play of the same title by playwright/screenwriter Maurine Watkins.
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The Hippodrome is wrapping up its season with a classic, as "Chicago the Musical" comes to Baltimore. Though the show has dazzled audiences for 28 years, each rendition comes with its own twist.
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Here at Capital One Hall, CHICAGO is painting the town. A spectacle to behold, the performance lights up Tysons in a hazy allure of Fosse high kicks and slow-rolling hips. Amidst the glitz and glamor of the roaring ‘20s, Roxie Hart (Ellie Roddy) guns down her extramarital lover, Fred Casely (Brad Weatherford), as he is breaking up with her.
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Since Capital One Hall started its Broadway in Tysons series, the venue has made it possible to see top theatrical musicals without going to New York City or Washington, D.C.
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Now onstage herself as Velma Kelly in the Broadway tour of “Chicago,” Lane is the one making little girl’s dreams come true. Reached by phone while on tour in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Lane says she’s honored to star in her hometown’s namesake musical.
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The Tony award winning musical Chicago is coming back to the Providence Performing Arts Center for just a few days only, May 2nd through the 4th.
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It is more than just 'all that jazz'! We are heading backstage at Chicago the Musical as it runs this weekend at Wharton Center.
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It was an absolute joy to sit down with Michigan native and Broadway performer Josh England last week. If his onstage presence is anything like his offstage charm, audiences are in for something special.
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Ashley and Mitchell had an amazing night last night. They got the opportunity to catch the opening night of the musical, “Chicago” at the Washington Pavilion. You still have chances to catch the show: March 28 & 29 at 7:30, and a 2pm showing on the 29th.
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Chicago The Musical brings the roaring twenties into the Silva Concert Hall! If you don’t know this show, in the whirlwind of Chicago’s Jazz Age, two of the city’s most notorious murderesses become fierce rivals as they compete for headlines amidst a media frenzy.
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When the curtains come up for Chicago the Musical at the Stranahan Theater next week, Christina Youngblood knows she’ll look out to some familiar faces in the audience.
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This national touring cast is fantastic. They possess immense talent and seem (somehow) to have energy to spare. Many musical numbers in Chicago play as character sketches and allow these brilliant performers to showcase their capabilities.
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Award-winning musical opens at Marcus Performing Arts Center January 14
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MILWAUKEE — Six nights a week, Taylor Lane listens to a band play the overture music for “Chicago.” Just as it comes to an end, she rises from the the center of the stage, a massive spotlight beaming straight on her. She looks out and sees her cast mates and a theater filled with new audiences members.
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Illeana “Illy” Kirven hasn’t taken the time to count how many performances she’s given as jail matron/theatrical agent “Mama” Morton in the touring production of “Chicago.”
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We got a chance to talk with Taylor Lane and Ellie Roddy, Velma Kelly and Roxy Hart respectively, from Chicago: The Musical at the Des Moines Civic Center. A part of the Willis Broadway Series!
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The Roaring ‘20s are prime time for gangsters, bootleggers, fast cars and faster women in the Second City. Roxie Hart is nobody to anyone except her loving husband Amos until she shoots and kills her lover Fred Casely when he tries to walk out on her.
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Boozy, jazzy, and sexy, Chicago has aged well. Premiering on Broadway in 1975 it was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 2002. Following in those illustrious footsteps is a new national tour, filled with plenty of razzle and dazzle, that doesn't disappoint
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The longest-running American musical in Broadway history, Chicago, is beginning a national tour in Birmingham this week and among those on stage at the BJCC Concert Hall will be an Alabama-born performer.
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Get your tickets now for Chicago at the Des Moines Civic Center now! This one-weekend only performance runs Dec. 6th-8th.
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If you want to see “Chicago” this week, all you’ve really got to do is drive to Birmingham — where you just might catch a glimpse, in the bargain, of a musical theatre talent who can trace his onstage roots back to Cullman.
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The razzle-dazzle of Riverdance on Iowa City’s former Hancher stage tapped into Paul Amrani’s heart and soul at age 3. Now he’s 24, and returning home to share the razzle-dazzle of “Chicago” on the new Hancher stage, during four performances May 3-5.
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Murder, revenge, lust, love and the complex state of justice in 1920s America came to life on the stage of the historic State Theatre in Easton on April 17 and April 18. That is thanks to the energy of the latest touring company of the hit musical “Chicago,” which first premiered on Broadway 27 years ago and has delighted audiences since.
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The longest-running American musical, "Chicago," is back at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City. News 9 got a preview of the show from lead actress Katie Frieden, a graduate of Oklahoma City University.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The national touring production of Chicago: The Musical makes its stop in OKC now through April 14th, 2024 at the Civic Center Music Hall.
Read More on Oklahoma City Free PressA Bergen County man is playing a major role as the musical “Chicago” tours the country. Robert Quiles plays Amos Hart, husband to Roxie Hart in the classic musical. He's got the famous song, “Mr. Cellophane.” Quiles lives in Dumont and graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson four years ago.
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Since she was a little girl, Katie Frieden has adored all that jazz. "I grew up in a performing arts dance studio in northern Virginia. ... I always loved jazz — always, always loved jazz, anything jazz, any style of jazz," she recalled.
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The national tour of the long-running Broadway musical Chicago is playing at the Winspear Opera House. The show is ubiquitous, known and loved by even the most passive musical theater fans. Most theater nerds have already seen it, but the production currently playing in Dallas warrants a repeat viewing.
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