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CHICAGO (OBC1975)
by konan73
CHICAGO (A musical vaudeville)Teatro estreno: 46th Street TheatreFecha estreno: 03/06/1975 (previas desde 12/05/1975)Fecha final: 27/08/1977Número de funciones: 936Gwen Verdon leyó la obra y le pidió a su marido, Bob Fosse, que contemplara la posibilidad de crear un musical basado en la misma. Fosse le solicitó a Watkins permiso para realizar la adaptación pero fue rechazado repetidamente. Después de la muerte de Watkins, en 1969, los derechos fueron a Verdon y Fosse, lo que permitió el desarrollo de CHICAGO: A MUSICAL VAUDEVILLE. John Kander y Fred Ebb comenzaron a trabajar en la partitura, modelando cada número como un acto tradicional de vaudeville. Se trabajó de forma explícita la comparación entre "justicia" y "espectáculo" en la sociedad contemporánea. Ebb y Fosse escribieron el guión, con Fosse tomando a su cargo también la dirección y la coreografía. El musical se estrenó el 3 de junio de 1975 y estuvo en escena hasta 1977. Las críticas fueron mixtas. Debió competir en e
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17-Nowadays
ROXIE ...gone, it's all gone. It's good, isn't it? Grand, isn't it? Great, isn't it? Swell, isn't it? Fun, isn't it? Nowadays There's man, everywhere Jazz, everywhere Booze, everywhere Life, everywhere Joy, everywhere Nowadays You can like the life you're living You can live the life you like You...
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16-Class
VELMA Whatever happened to fair dealing And pure ethics And nice manners? Why is it everyone now is a pain in the Ass? Whatever happened to class? MAMA Class. Whatever happened to Please may I And Yes thank you And How charming? Now every son of a bitch Is a snake in the grass Whatever happened…
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Give´em the old razzle dazzle
BILLY(Spoken) Roxie, you got nothing to worry about. It's all a circus, kid. A three ring circus. These trials- the wholeworld- all show business. But kid, you're working with a star, the biggest! (Singing) Give 'em the old razzle dazzle Razzle Dazzle 'em Give 'em an act with lots of flash in it...
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14-When Velma Takes the Stand
VELMA Billy, I been thinkin' a lot about my trial. Couldn't I just show you what I thought I might do on the witness stand? BILLY Go ahead. VELMA Good! Hit it! Well then, when I got on the stand I thought I'd take a peek at the jury. Then I'd cross my legs like this, you know. BOYS When Velma…
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13- Mr Cellophane
AMOS If someone stood up in a crowd And raised his voice up way out loud And waved his arm And shook his leg You'd notice him If someone in the movie show Yelled "fired in the second row, This whole place is a powder keg!" You'd notice him And even without clucking like a hen Everyone gets…
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12-Me and My Baby
ROXIE My Dear Little Baby VELMA (Mimicing). My Dear Little Baby ROXIE My Sweet Little Baby VELMA (Mimicing) My Sweet Little (Grummbled) Baby ROXIE Look At My Baby And Me Me And My Baby My Baby And Me We're 'Bout As Happy As Babies Can Be What If I Find That I'm Caught In A storm? I Don't Care My...
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11-I Am My Own Best Friend
ANNOUNCIER And now, Miss Roxie Hart and Miss Velma Kelly sing a song of unrelenting determination and unmitigated ego! VELMA AND ROXIE One thing I know One thing I know And I've always known And I've always known I am my own I am my own Best friend Baby's alive Baby's alive But baby's alone But...
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10-I Can´t Do It Alone
ANNOUNCER ladies and gentleman miss velma kelly in an act of desperation VELMA KELLY my sister and i had an act that couldn't flop, my sister and i were headed straight for the top, my sister and earned a thou a week at least, oh yea but my sister is now unfortuntly deceased, i know its sad of...
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9-Roxie
ROXIE The name on everybodies lips is gonna be: Roxie The lady raking in the chips is gonna be: Roxie I'm gonna be a celebrity, That means somebody everyone knows, They're gonna recognise my eyes, my hair,, my teeth, my boobs, my nose. From just some dumb mechanics wife, I'm gonna be: Roxie Who...
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8-Press Conference Rag
mr. billy flynn and the press conference rag notice how his mouth never moves......almost where’d you come from mississippi and your parents very wealthy where are they now six feet under but she was granted one more start the convent of the sacred heart when’d ya get here 1920 how old were you...
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7-A Little Bit of Good
MARY SUNSHINE When I was a tiny tot Of maybe two or three I can still remember what My mother said to me... Place rose colored glasses on your nose And you will see the robins Not the crows For in the tense and tangled web Our weary lives can weave You're so much better off If you believe....…
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6-All I Care About Is Love
ANNOUNCER Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting the silver-tounged prince of the courtroom, the one, Mr Billy Flynn! GIRLS We want Billy Where is Billy? Give us Billy We want Billy B-I-Double L-Y. We're all his He's our kind of a guy And ooh what luck 'Cause here he is. ANNOUNCER is every body here?…
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5-When You´re Good to Mama
Ladies and gentlemen - the Keeper of the keys, the Countess of the clink, the mistress of Murderers Row, Matron Mama Morton! MAMA MORTON Ask any of the chickies in my pen They'll tell you I'm the biggest Mutha. . . .Hen I love them all and all of them love me - Because the system works; the…
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4-The Cellblock Tango
[ANNOUNCER] And now the six merry murderesses of the Crookem County Jail in their rendition of "The Cell Block Tango" [LIZ] Pop [ANNIE] Six [JUNE] Squish [HUNYAK] Uh uh [VELMA] Cicero [MONA] Lipschitz! [LIZ] Pop [ANNIE] Six [JUNE] Squish [HUNYAK] Uh uh [VELMA] Cicero [MONA] Lipschitz! [LIZ] Pop...
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3-My Funny Honey
ROXIE Sometime's I'm right Sometime's I'm wrong But he doesn't care He'll String along He loves me so That funny honey of mine Sometime's I'm down Sometime's I'm up But he follows 'round Like some droopy-eyed pup He love me so That sunny honey of mine He ain't no sheik That's no great physique…
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2-All That Jazz
Come on babe, why don't we paint the town, and all that Jazz I'm gonna rouge my knees and roll my stockin's down And all that Jazz Start the car, I know a whoopee spot Where the gin is cold but the piano's hot It's just a noisy hall, where there's a nightly brawl And all - a-that - Ja-yazz Slick...
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1-Overture
ACTO PRIMERO El Kelly de Velma es a vaudevillian quién asesinó a su marido y a su hermana cuando ella los encontró en cama juntos. Ella da la bienvenida a la demostración de la esta noche de las audiencias (“todo ese jazz”). Mientras tanto, oímos hablar del asesinato de su amante, nightclub Fred...
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CHICAGO (A musical vaudeville)Teatro estreno: 46th Street TheatreFecha estreno: 03/06/1975 (previas desde 12/05/1975)Fecha final: 27/08/1977Número de funciones: 936Gwen Verdon leyó la obra y le pidió a su marido, Bob Fosse, que contemplara la posibilidad de crear un musical basado en la misma. Fosse le solicitó a Watkins permiso para realizar la adaptación pero fue rechazado repetidamente. Después de la muerte de Watkins, en 1969, los derechos fueron a Verdon y Fosse, lo que permitió el desarrollo de CHICAGO: A MUSICAL VAUDEVILLE. John Kander y Fred Ebb comenzaron a trabajar en la partitura, modelando cada número como un acto tradicional de vaudeville. Se trabajó de forma explícita la comparación entre "justicia" y "espectáculo" en la sociedad contemporánea. Ebb y Fosse escribieron el guión, con Fosse tomando a su cargo también la dirección y la coreografía. El musical se estrenó el 3 de junio de 1975 y estuvo en escena hasta 1977. Las críticas fueron mixtas. Debió competir en e
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