Chicago
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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 Maurine Dallas Watkins, then a journalist covering the city's courthouse beat.
- Opened
- 1975
- Performances
- 936
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions4 on Broadway
| 1926 | Music Box Theatre Original. December 30, 1926 · George Abbott · predates this show | 172 performances |
| 1975 | 46th Street Theatre Revival. June 3, 1975 · Bob Fosse | 936 performances |
| 1996 | Richard Rodgers Theatre Revival. November 14, 1996 · Walter Bobbie | 9,999 performances |
| 2006 | Cambridge Theatre Original. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 23 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available (amateur only) |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | withdrawn |
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44 passages naming Chicago, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The most celebrated American operetta of the 19th century, Robin Hood was produced by a touring company that first presented it in Chicago in June 1890. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p17
Sop, after Chicago’s Broadway opening, Miss Verdon was temporarily replaced by Liza Minneli because of illness; during the run she was succeeded by Ann Reinking. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p237
An extension of Bob Fosse’s previous work in Pippin and Chicago — plus Michael Bennett’s in A Chorus Line — Dancin’ represented the final triumph of the Broadway choreographer by doing away with practically everything else but. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p242
With the arrival of Fosse , three simultaneous productions on Broadway were devoted to the work of Bob Fosse; the other two were the revivals of Chicago and Cabaret. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p302
It previewed in Chicago before it came to Broadway book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p304
Not quite the format for a long-running smash, perhaps, but the show’s innovations did turn up in later productions such as Company and A Chorus Line(non-linear stories), Hallelujah, Baby! (characters did not age over a long period of time), and Chicago (conceived as “A Musical Vaudeville”). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p162
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