Chowist Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Chicago (musical) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(musical)

   Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the jazz age, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported. The story is a satire on corruption in the ...

3. Chicago (play) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(play)

   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. Roxie Hart - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxie_Hart

   Chicago, a 1927 silent film, with Phyllis Haver playing Roxie. Roxie Hart, a 1942 film starring Ginger Rogers as Roxie. This adaptation is notable for her husband Amos being the real murderer, but Roxie going along with it as a boost to her career. Chicago, the original 1975 Broadway stage musical, featuring Gwen Verdon, [3] and its 1996 ...

5. West Side Story - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story

   West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents . Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood.

6. Chicago (2002 film) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(2002_film)

   Chicago is a 2002 American musical comedy crime 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 ...

7. Chita Rivera, Broadway Legend From ‘Chicago’ and ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/chita-rivera-broadway-legend-chicago...

   Broadway legend Chita Rivera, a two-time Tony winner who received eight additional nominations, died on Tuesday morning after a brief illness, her publicist announced. She was 91. The actor-singer ...