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Velma Kelly is one of the main characters in the successful 1975 Broadway musical Chicago. Kelly is based on the character "Velma", who first appeared in the 1926 play, also called Chicago , who was in-turn inspired by the life of Belva Gaertner .
Belva Eleanora Gaertner (née Boosinger; September 14, 1884 – May 14, 1965) was an American woman who was acquitted of murder in a 1924 trial.She inspired the character of Velma in the 1926 play Chicago created by Maurine Dallas Watkins; Watkins reported on the trial for the Chicago Tribune.
The opening night cast starred Chita Rivera as Velma Kelly, Gwen Verdon as Roxie Hart, Jerry Orbach as Billy Flynn, and Barney Martin as Amos Hart. Velma Kelly had been a comparatively minor character in all versions of Chicago prior to the musical rendering. The role was fleshed out to balance Rivera's role opposite Verdon's Roxie Hart.
Zeta-Jones nabbed the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 2003 for her performance as showgirl-turned-murderess Velma Kelly in the 2002 musical film ... Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago (2002 ...
In 1975 she originated the role of Velma Kelly in the Broadway musical “Chicago.” In a nod to her work, she made a cameo in the 2002 film version, which starred Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee ...
Robyn Hurder gives Broadway audiences the old razzle dazzle eight times a week as murderous vixen Velma Kelly in the long-running hit Chicago.. It's a role that the Tony Award-nominated stage ...
Chicago is a play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins.The play, while fiction, is a satire based on two unrelated 1924 court cases involving two women, Beulah Annan (the inspiration for Roxie Hart) and Belva Gaertner (the inspiration for Velma Kelly), who were both suspected and later acquitted of murder, whom Watkins had covered for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter.
[8] [9] Henshall, Simpson, Shields, and Williams have portrayed the character both on Broadway and The West End. Bebe Neuwirth , who won a Tony Award for the role of Velma Kelly in 1997, also portrayed Roxie in the same production in 2006.