| Fame hungry Roxie Hart dreams of a life on the Vaudeville stage and spends her nights jazzing it up on in the bright lights of Chicago, continually hoping that she'll find her break, and be shot into 1920's stardom, so able to flee her boring husband Amos. In awe of a seductive club singer Velma Kelly (who is subsequently arrested for the murder of her husband and sister- after discovering their affair), Roxie meets Fred Casely a man who convinces her he can 'make her showbiz career take off'. However after Roxie has undergone the 'casting couch' treatment, and Fred has had his wicked way with her, he reveals that he has no more connection in the show business than she does. This is the final straw for Roxie, and her constant anger at rejection explodes. She shoots Fred Casely and kills him. Upon discovering her infidelity, Roxie's husband Amos refuses to take the blame for the murder and Roxie is sent to jail, pending hanging. In jail she finally meets tabloid darling Velma Kelly, currently receiving attention for the double murder she committed earlier in the tale. Sharing the clink with Velma, are a collection of other sly females, all awaiting trial of their own partners. Velma is aloof to Roxie, however the prison Warden Mrs. Morton offers Roxie the opportunity of representation by slick Chicago lawyer Billy Flynn. | ||
| Billy is more a showbiz P.R. agent than a legal lawyer and manipulates the tabloids into thinking Roxie is no more than an innocent 'good time girl' who took the wrong path, than a scheming murderess. The tabloids go crazy for the new girl on the cell block and Roxie finally becomes a star. However due to Roxie's new found fame, Velma is forgotten about. She is forced to approach Roxie with an offer of a part in her Vaudeville act(filling the gap left by her murdered sister), but Roxie | ||
| turns down her offer flat, thinking | ||
| she needs no support in topping the bill. However, just as Velma's star fell, so does Roxie's, when Kitty Baxter comes in. She is responsible for killing three people. | ||
| Starring
-Renee Zellweger - Roxie Hart -Catherine Zeta-Jones- Velma Kelly - Richard Gere - Billy Flynn John C Riley- Amos Hart Queen Latifah- Matron Mama Morton Lucy Liu- Kitty Baxter Taye Diggs - The Bandleader Colm Feore- Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison Christine Baranski- Mary Sunshine
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| Interesting Facts
Richard Gere did all of his tap dancing. All the actors and actresses did their own singing.
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