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"Cicero": The fifth woman, Velma Kelly, one of the stars of the musical, relates that she caught her husband Charlie doing a 'provocative acrobatics maneuver' with her sister and vaudeville partner Veronica (number 17: the spread eagle) while they were performing in the suburb of Cicero, Illinois.
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 .
Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville opened on June 3, 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre, and ran for a total of 936 performances, closing on August 27, 1977. [19] 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Chita Rivera, Broadway Legend From ‘Chicago’ and ‘West Side Story,’ Dies at 91. ... In 1975 she originated the role of Velma Kelly in the Broadway musical “Chicago.” In a nod to her ...
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.
Throughout her trial, she forms a rivalry with another murder suspect, Velma Kelly. In the end, Roxie is acquitted of the crime, Amos leaves her (both for lack of attention and lying about being pregnant to gain sympathy from the press), and her dreams of superstardom are dashed when the media abandons her story.