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Chicago is a 1975 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 a 1926 play of the same title by Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of ...
Chicago is a 2002 American musical black comedy crime film based on the 1975 stage musical, which in turn originated in the 1926 play.It explores the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. [3]
Chicago: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture is a soundtrack album featuring all of the original songs of the 2002 Best Picture Academy Award-winning musical film Chicago starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Mýa Harrison and Christine Baranski.
To celebrate the "Wicked" premiere and the broader movie musical genre, Stacker ranked the best stage-to-screen musicals of all time using a Stacker score—a weighted index split evenly between ...
For a full catalog raisonné containing the dates, places and participants of premieres as well as the names and sources for lost works (especially the early chamber and orchestral music), abandoned works (like the opera Silk or the film score to Goodbye, Mr. Chips), rejected works (like the film score to See No Evil) and withdrawn works (like the Cello Concerto No. 1) see Frédéric Döhl ...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a musical based on the 1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Directed by Sam Mendes , the musical premiered in the West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in June 2013 and ran for 3 years and 7 months before closing on 7 ...
Grease is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest Chicago [1] (based on Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois, [2] and named after rock singer Bobby Rydell [3]), the musical follows ten working-class teenagers as ...
High Society is a musical comedy with a book by Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.Some updated or new lyrics were provided by Susan Birkenhead.The musical is based on Philip Barry's 1939 stage comedy The Philadelphia Story and the subsequent 1956 musical film adaptation, High Society, which features Porter's songs.