Chicago occurs as motion-picture show musical theater freed around 2002 about celebrity and money in Jazz age 1920s Chicago. It won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. A film was freed December 27, 2002 and runs 113 transactions.

Synopsis

Velma Kelly occurs as nightclub star whose celebrity is only increased by her double slaying of her adulterous married man & her sister. Roxie Hart occurs as nonentity world health organization dreams of the fame of & wealth of the cantabile career. Whilst she shoots her abusive lover, world health organization lie around his ability for her the job as a performing artist, she is sent to murderess' row. There she meets Velma Kelly. Facing death row, Roxie hires Billy Flynn, Chicago's best lawyer, who promises to turn her out break into the celebrity slaying test & develop her acquitted. Flynn & Roxie manipulate a click & a public & Roxie becomes illustrious. While Billy recognizes Roxie's expected, Roxie & Velmthe turn into latched withinside a contention to outdo every more in stardom.

A indicate was inspired per musical Chicago, originally staged in Broadway in 1975. A original production was non especially easily-received by audiences world health organization were non brace oneself for the indicate's misanthropic tone. A minimalist 1996 revival enjoyed a great deal other profits, notwithstanding: it has toured the world & is however running off inside London's West End and on Broadway. A influences of each productions may be seen in the film version. A original production's musical amounts were staged when vaudeville acts, which presented some problems whenever transferring from either stage to screen. A flick version allowed a music hall scenes to happen by transferring a musical totals to an fanciful stage inside Roxie's fantasies, when keeping a pared-down flavour of the revival production.

Cast

A film star Renée Zellweger (Roxie Hart), Queen Latifah (Matron 'Mama' Morton), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Velma Kelly), Richard Gere (Billy Flynn), John C. Reilly (Amos Hart), and Christine Baranski (Mary Sunshine). It was directed by Rob Marshall.

Entirely primary actors did their have singing and dancing in the film. Zeta-Jones & Latifah antecedently got agency music careers & Reilly, Zeta-Jones & Baranski got got musical theater personal experience. Gere was a virtually all experient of the leading cast in this locality, & needful lone minimum rehearsal. He did, still, need tap dance instruction before shooting his court tap dancing routine. Zellweger experienced never danced professionally however sang in the 1994 motion picture ''Dislodge, rattle & rock!'.

Awards

Chicago won six Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Best Editing (Martin Walsh), Best Art Direction (John Myhre), Best Costume Design (Colleen Atwood), and Best Sound (Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee)

It was nominated for 7 others: Best Director (Rob Marshall), Best Actress (Renée Zellweger), Best Supporting Actor (John C. Reilly), Best Supporting Actress (Queen Latifah), Best Cinematography (Dion Beebe), Best Song ("I Move On" by John Kander and Fred Ebb), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Bill Condon).

Songs

"All That Jazz" "Funny Honey" "When You're Good to Mama" "Cell Block Tango" "All I Care About" "We Both Reached for the Gun" "Roxie" "I Can't Do It Alone" "Mister Cellophane" "Razzle Dazzle "Present (Roxie)" "Nowadays" "I personally Move On"

An additional song, "Class", performed by Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones was filmed, but it was cut from the movie. The footage was later included on the DVD release and the song was included on the soundtrack album.

Sources

The movie is based on the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical, Chicago, in its turn based on the Maurine Watkins play, Chicago, which was in turn based on the stories of two Jazz-era killers, Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner.

Trivia
Chicago was to have been the next movie project for legendary stage and film choreographer and director Bob Fosse, who directed and choreographed the original Broadway production, at the time of his death in 1987. The influence of his distinctive jazz choreography style can be detected throughout the film.