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Chicago is a Broadway musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The musical is based on a 1926 play by newspaper reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about real “celebrity criminals” and their crimes that she reported on. The original Broadway production opened June 3, 1975 and ran for 936 performances. Chicago‘s 1996 Broadway revival holds the record for the longest-running musical revival on Broadway; with over 6,200 performances (as of January, 2012). “All That Jazz” is the show’s best-known song and is frequently used as the title for numerous Broadway Reviews staged by local performing groups … find the sheet music for this blockbuster and all the great music from Chicago here! |