Seeking fame, fortune and the
spotlight are tricky endeavors, especially if your claim to notoriety is
murder. Come meet Velma Kelly and
Roxie Hart who are competing for the same front-page headlines. With a lot of “razzle-dazzle,” these
two femme fatales will sing and dance their way into your heart, just be sure
there’s no pistol tucked among their prancing parts.
As Broadway’s longest running
revival and winner of six Tony Awards, plus being a smash movie hit, “Chicago”
will be taking deadly aim at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts for
five performances only from tonight to Sunday, October 28.
With Christy Brinkley
starring as Roxie Hart, this musical created by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with
choreography by Ann Reinking, in the style of Bob Fosse, is stuffed with glitz
and glamour. Based on a true story
set back in 1924 Chicago, the show features two legendary beauties who are
charged with murder and the less-than-scrupulous lawyer who is hired to keep
them from the electric chair.
While both ladies enlist the
favor of Mama Morton, the jail’s accommodating matron, Roxie has the added
benefit of the support of her faithful husband Amos, who sings a wonderful song
that expresses how he feels about himself, “Mr. Cellophane” Other great numbers are “All That
Jazz,” “Reciprocity” and “We Both Reached for the Gun,” where the lawyer Billy
plays ventriloquist to Roxie’s dummy.
For tickets ($20-69), call
the Bushnell, 166 Capitol Avenue, Hartford at 860-987-5900 or online at www.bushnell.org. Performances are tonight at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m.,
Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Be electrified by this 2400
watt sparkler of a musical, with mayhem and murder front and center on the
marquee.
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