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2. Chicago (musical) - Wikipedia

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   Chicago: The Musical has run for more than 10,000 performances [47] [48] and holds the record for longest-running musical revival on Broadway. [49] Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, James Naughton, and Joel Grey returned for cameo appearances. [50] The cast recording of the revival was released on January 28, 1997, on RCA Victor. [51]

3. Chicago (play) - Wikipedia

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   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), who were both suspected and later acquitted of murder, whom Watkins had covered for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter.

4. List of the longest-running Broadway shows - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of Broadway shows with 1,000 or more performances, sorted by number of performances. Eleven shows currently running on Broadway have at least 1,000 performances: the 1996 revival of Chicago, The Lion King, Wicked, The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Hadestown, Moulin Rouge!, Six, and MJ the ...

5. Velma Kelly - Wikipedia

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   Veronica. Husband: Charlie. Nationality. American. Residence. Chicago, Illinois, United States. 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 .

6. List of highest-grossing musical theatre productions - Wikipedia

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   The Lion King sits at the top, with a Broadway gross of $1.9 billion. Dates refer to original Broadway productions, with notes added for future productions that outran the Broadway run. † Background shading indicates shows running in the week commencing 16 August 2024 in Broadway theatres.

7. Grease (musical) - Wikipedia

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   Grease is a musical 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 working-class teenagers as ...

8. Chicago (2002 film) - Wikipedia

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   Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name which in turn originated in the 1926 play of the same name. It explores the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. [ 4] The film stars an ensemble cast led by Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and ...

9. The Addams Family (musical) - Wikipedia

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   The Addams Family. (musical) The Addams Family is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The show is based upon The Addams Family characters created by Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons, which depict a ghoulish American family with an affinity for all things macabre.