There's song, dance, drama, and everything in between in the swingin' Chicago in the early 1920s. It's beautiful and I love it:)
The main cast have their own songs, especially the sequences with Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) are worth double attention, as he pulls away the first impression of a do-good lawyer to another who wants to maintain his current winning streak of cases. My favorite scene involves the members of press being puppets to Flynn, who twists the situation to Roxie's favor(We both reached for the gun).
Leading ladies Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger do a fantastic job in the singing and dancing, and this show sticks true to its original Broadway roots, with the perfect synchronization of musical numbers and drama sequences, to the point that we don't get bailed out drama where the boring sequences and long conversations that make you sleep, but the more crucial songs are put as a number sequences, so you get the idea of the whole show.
I would love to watch this show on Broadway if I had the chance, although this is a pretty good film version of it.
For anyone who enjoys theatre, jazz or the 1920s. Not the Youtube music recommendations, that's banking too much on what normal people want to hear. If you wanna make your musical taste stand out you'd gotta work harder than that.
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