Chicago centers on Roxie Hart (Zellweger) and Velma Kelly. The Tony-winning revival opened in November 1996 with Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking, Joel Grey and James Naughton in the lead roles. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Rene Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere. John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical, which features such songs as "All That Jazz," "Mister Cellophane," "Class" and "Nowadays," debuted on Broadway in June 1975 with choreography by the late Bob Fosse and a cast led by Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach. The Tony-winning lighting team of Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer lit the film. Bill Condon wrote the "Chicago" screenplay for Miramax Studios, and the film's cinematographer was Dion Beebe. Watch the video for Razzle Dazzle from Richard Geres Chicago - Music From The Miramax Motion Picture for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar. Marshall, the choreographer of Broadway's Kiss of the Spider Woman and the revivals of Damn Yankees, She Loves Me, Cabaret and Little Me, directed the $45 million film, his motion-picture debut. Reilly (Amos Hart), Dominic West (Fred Caseley), Christine Baranski (Mary Sunshine), Queen Latifah (Mama Morton) as well as Taye Diggs, Colm Feore, Lucy Liu, Mya, Marc Calamia, Deidre Goodwin, Sebastian La Cause, Mary Ann Lamb and a cameo from original Chicago star Chita Rivera. Artist: Richard Gere Album: Chicago (Music from the Motion Picture) Heyo SONGLYRICS just got interactive. The soundtrack (Epic Records) to the film is also doing well, having sold 255,000 units to date.įeaturing a star-studded cast led by Zellweger (Roxie Hart), Zeta-Jones (Velma Kelly) and Gere (Billy Flynn), the "Chicago" company also includes John C.
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11, and it is expected that the movie musical will garner a slew of nominations. The wide release comes just a few days before this year's Oscar nominations: The 75th Anniversary Academy Award nominations will be announced Feb.
17 - for a total of 557 screens - and a further expansion Jan. The much-in-the-news film had another limited expansion Jan. 27 and then opened at 300 other screens Jan. Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere, "Chicago" debuted in the top-20 markets Dec. The film will continue to open in additional movie houses in the next few weeks, playing 2,000 screens over the Valentine's Day weekend and 2,500 screens the weekend after that. If it's too much of a good thing, I say, bring it on.A Miramax spokesperson confirmed that the Rob Marshall-directed motion picture will be playing 1,500 screens as of Feb. Reilly) laments being the invisible man.Īt times, "Chicago" has the feel of a revue, with the major characters taking turns at their own show-stopping numbers. So, we're there when Roxie triumphs onstage, when the confessions of her fellow prisoners turn into smoldering condemnations of the men they killed, when a press conference becomes a marionette show with Flynn literally pulling reporters' strings, when the corrupt-but-good-hearted prison matron (Queen Latifah, like she owned the place) shares her own dreams, and when Roxie's cuckolded husband (John C. In adapting the musical, Marshall, a choreographer (Broadway's "Cabaret" and TV's "Annie," which he also directed), and screenwriter Bill Condon ("Gods and Monsters," which he also directed) have extracted the production numbers from the book and made them fantasies that play out in the theater of Roxie's imagination. It's Roxie who shows the most moxie, and after casting herself as a victim and being made over as a Breck Girl, she's the national rage. The two women end up in prison together, each one accused of murder, both defended by Flynn, for whose attention they must compete. Zellweger easily converts her girl-next-door image to that of a dancing Eve Harrington, an opportunist ready to claw her way over any obstacle - Velma, mostly - that gets in her way. However the illusions were accomplished, Zellweger and Gere are fine in their musical numbers, and better than that in the dramatic scenes.
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