Chicago – Alexandra Theatre
Start the car and head on down to the Alexandra Theatre, where Chicago really is all that jazz.
The Tony award-winning, record-breaking hit musical has Fosse walked its way to Birmingham and it doesn’t disappoint.
Set in Chicago in the Jazz age, the musical is based on the 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins. With the music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, and the book by Ebb and Bob Fosse.
The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the ‘celebrity criminal’. Set in the backdrop of 1920’s decadence Roxie Hart murders her lover after he threatens to walk out on her. To avoid conviction, she dupes the public and the media by hiring Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer, Billy Flynn, who will defend you for a high price, guilty ...