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Chicago, 1926

Shows · Chicago · Music Box Theatre, 1926

Chicago
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Chicago and could document any of its runs. Cheryl Sue Dolby of the Merlin Group
Original BroadwayMusic Box Theatre 172 performances

The run closed May 28, 1927

Opened
December 30, 1926
Closed
May 28, 1927
Performances
172
Previews
Unknown

Of the 2,149 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and carry a performance count, this is the 284th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Chicago 3 more that season

1975 46th Street Theatre Revival · Bob Fosse 936 perf.
1996 Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival · Walter Bobbie 9,999 perf.
2006 Cambridge Theatre Original

Who was in it26 named

Francine Larrimore
Charles A Bickford
Charles Halton
George W Anspeak
Robert Barrat
Ferike Boros
Doan Borup
George Cowell
Juliette Crosby
Carl de Mal
Edward Ellis
Edith Fitzgerald
Eda Heinemann
Charles Kuhn
George Lanning
Al Milliken
James C Pall
Thomas Poland
Charles Slattery
G Albert Smith
Dorothy Stickney
Wilma Thompson
Milano Tilden
Arthur R Vinton
Isabelle Winlocke
Vincent York

0 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
George Abbott
Producer
Sam H. Harris

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 23 held for the work

no art held
Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway
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Chicago (1999 Tørring Amtsgymnasium cast)
no art held
Chicago (1975-08-08 Broadway cast)
no art held
Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture
no art held
Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture Epic
no art held
Chicago (1975 original Broadway cast) Arista ATC 9005. 1975
no art held
Chicago (1975 original Broadway cast) Arista 07822-18952-2. November 12, 1996
no art held
Chicago: The Musical RCA Victor 09026-68727-2. January 28, 1997
no art held
Chicago Reverso Musikproduktionsgesellschaft 74321 583552. 1998
no art held
Chicago: The London Cast Recording RCA Victor 09026 63155-2. July 28, 1998
no art held
Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture Epic 5105322000. 2002
no art held
Chicago . 2002
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Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture Epic EK 87018. 2002
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Chicago (2001 Studio Cast) LaserLight Digital 32 138. 2003
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Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture Epic 510532 2. January 13, 2003
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Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture Sony CMG. January 13, 2003
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Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. D146336; Epic EK 87018; Sony Music So…. January 14, 2003
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Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture Epic EK 87018. January 14, 2003
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Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture . January 23, 2003
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Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture Sony Classical 510532 2. January 23, 2003
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Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture Epic ES 87018. July 15, 2003
no art held
Chicago: The Musical (10th Anniversary Edition) Masterworks Broadway 82876-89784-2. October 3, 2006
no art held
Chicago (1975 original Broadway cast) Masterworks Broadway 88697 56209-2. October 6, 2009

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Chicago, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • Which of the 23 recordings of Chicago document this run, if any.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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