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Chicago was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End. The 1996 Broadway production holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. It is the second longest-running show ever to run on Broadway, behind only The Phantom of the Opera.
Entertainment Weekly listed Maus at seventh place on their list of "The New Classics: Books – The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008", [150] and Time put Maus at seventh place on their list of best non-fiction books from between 1923 and 2005, [151] and fourth on their list of top graphic novels. [152]
This experience gave her the material for her most famous piece of work, the stage play Chicago (1926), which was eventually adapted into the 1975 Broadway musical of the same name, which was then made into a film in 2002 that won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Watkins was born in Kentucky and grew up in Indiana.
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.
A Broadway transfer of the 2018 West End revival opened December 9, 2021, to broad acclaim. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] Marianne Elliott once again directed, [ 58 ] and Patti LuPone reprised her role as Joanne, with Katrina Lenk as Bobbie, [ 62 ] choreography by Liam Steel, music supervision and direction by Joel Fram, scenic and costume designs by ...
Grease is a musical, first staged in 1971, 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 ...
South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan.The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, running for 1,925 performances.
The second Broadway revival, by the Roundabout Theatre Company, was based on the 1993 Mendes-Donmar Warehouse production. For the Broadway transfer, Rob Marshall was co-director and choreographer. [ 49 ] [ 90 ] [ 44 ] The production opened after 37 previews on March 19, 1998, at the Kit Kat Klub, housed in what previously had been known as ...