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“Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery and treachery…all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts“…so begins the international award winning Broadway and West End musical, CHICAGO.
The UK tour stars EastEnders actor John Partridge (Cats, A Chorus Line, Miss Saigon, Starlight Express) as Billy Flynn, Dancing on Ice winner and Coronation Street star Hayley Tamaddon (Emmerdale, Grease, Mamma Mia!) as Roxie Hart, and X Factor winner and real life prison warden Sam Bailey as Matron ‘Mama’ Morton. 
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Created by the musical theatre talents of John Kander, Fred Ebb and legendary choreographer Bob Fosse, CHICAGO’s sexy, sassy score includes “All That Jazz” and “Razzle Dazzle”. With 6 Tony, 2 Olivier, 1 Grammy, 2 Bafta and 6 Academy Awards, CHICAGO truly is “The sharpest, slickest show on the block” The Times.
Based on events in the roaring 1920s, nightclub singer Roxie Hart shoots her lover and, along with Cell Block rival double-murderess Velma Kelly, they fight to keep from death row with the help of smooth talking lawyer, Billy Flynn. A nightclub singer, a double-murderess, a smooth-talking lawyer and a cell block of sin: it would be a crime to miss it. |
‘STILL THE SEXIEST MOST SENSATIONAL MUSICAL’
Sunday Express
‘SEXY, SASSY, SULTRY, SEDUCTIVE, SENSUAL, SLINKY, SOPHISTICATED’
Independent on Sunday
‘MAKES ALL OTHER MUSICALS LOOK TAME’
Daily Express
‘THE MOST EXCITING MUSICAL OF ITS GENERATION’
The Times
‘A RAZZLING-DAZZLING EVENING THAT IS NOT TO BE MISSED’
The Sun
‘SHEER THEATRICAL BLISS’
Daily Telegraph
For tickets go online to www.southendtheatres.org.uk or call 01702 351135