It was later remade as Roxie Hart (1942) starring Ginger Rogers, but in this version, Roxie was accused of murder without having really committed it, due to content restrictions on Hollywood films of the era. DeMille produced a silent film version, Chicago (1927), starring former Mack Sennett bathing beauty Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart. The show received both good box-office sales and newspaper notices and was mounted on Broadway in 1926, running 172 performances. Watkins' sensational columns documenting these trials proved so popular that she wrote a play based on them. Just days apart, separate juries acquitted both women. O'Brien were models for a composite character in Chicago, Billy Flynn. A bottle of gin and an automatic pistol were found on the floor of the car. Two police officers testified that they had seen a woman getting into the car and shortly thereafter heard gunshots.
The body of Walter Law was discovered slumped over the steering wheel of Gaertner's abandoned car on March 12, 1924. Velma Kelly is based on Gaertner, who was a cabaret singer, and society divorcée. Albert was an auto mechanic who bankrupted himself to defend his wife, only for her to publicly dump him the day after she was acquitted. Her husband Albert Annan inspired the character, Amos Hart. The Tribune reported that Annan played the foxtrot record Hula Lou over and over for two hours before calling her husband to say she killed a man who "tried to make love to her". Īnnan, the model for the character of Roxie Hart, was 23 when she was accused of the Ap murder of Harry Kalstedt, who served as the basis for the Fred Casely character. Regardless of stance, the press covered several of these women as celebrities. Its rivals at the Hearst papers were more pro-defendant, and employed what were derisively called "sob-sisters" – women reporters who focused on the plight, attractiveness, redemption, or grace of the female defendants. The Chicago Tribune generally favored the prosecution's case, while still presenting the details of these women's lives. A lore arose that, in Chicago, feminine or attractive women could not be convicted. These cases were tried against a backdrop of changing views of women in the jazz age, and a long string of acquittals by Cook County juries of female murderers (juries at the time were all male, and convicted murderers generally faced death by hanging). Several high-profile cases arose, which generally involved women killing their lovers or husbands. In the early 1920s, Chicago's press and public became riveted by the subject of homicides committed by women.
The musical Chicago is based on a play of the same name by reporter and playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins, who was assigned to cover the 1924 trials of accused murderers Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner for the Chicago Tribune. The 2002 film adaptation of the musical won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Chicago has been staged in numerous productions around the world, and has toured extensively in the United States and United Kingdom. The West End revival became the longest-running American musical in West End history. Chicago surpassed Cats on November 23, 2014, when it played its 7,486th performance. It will become the longest-running ever if it's still open on Decemsince Phantom will close on February 18, 2023. It is the second longest-running show ever to run on Broadway, behind only The Phantom of the Opera. The 1996 Broadway production holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. Chicago was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End. It debuted in the West End in 1979, where it ran for 600 performances. Bob Fosse directed and choreographed the original production, and his style is strongly identified with the show. The original Broadway production opened in 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances, until 1977. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal". 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 the crimes on which she reported. 1996 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musicalġ997 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical ProductionĬhicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse.
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