Chicago is a bittersweet taste of Roaring Twenties noir which is guaranteed to thrill wannabe gangsters.
The musical mixes hot, sweet jazz with a chilling account of the 1924 double murder trial that transfixed Chicago Tribune readers.
With each number modelled on traditional 'variety' performances, the tale of vaude-villains Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart features some of the best dancers in Broadway. Grammy award-winning songs such as "All That Jazz" and "Razzle Dazzle" are full of period flavour and explore the connections the cast make between showbusiness, justice and society.
Chicago is a dramatic, high-kicking expose of a society which glamorises criminals and criminality - more than eighty years on, you’ll be transfixed too.
First staged in 1975, Chicago was revived in 1996 under the direction of Walter Bobbie. The musical is now in its 10th year at Broadway, where its minimal staging requirements have enabled the show to recoup costs faster than any other in history. The revived version of Chicago has won 6 Tony awards, and in 2002 was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie starring Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones.