Chicago
After seven smash-hit years at the Adelphi Theatre, the sassy, saucy, suspender-wearing Kander and Ebb musical Chicago moved across Covent Garden. It has now been at the Cambridge Theatre for over three years.
Make it to Seven Dials and get drawn into the kiss-and-tell tale of Roxie Hart, a nightclub dancer who kills her lover. She gets herself represented by a sharp lawyer, Billy Flynn, who turns her into a celebrity and meets Velma Kelly, a dancing jailbird with an ear for the headlines and an eye for talent...
This tight and atmospheric show - a sort of gangster musical - won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production in 1998 and also an Oscar for the film version. This stage production has scored a great hit in rotating casts.
The Cambridge Theatre was the venue for the original London production of Chicago, which opened in 1979 and ran for 603 performances. The current production broke Adelphi Theatre records in October 2005, beating the previous longest-running show: Me and My Girl's 3303 performances there.
Related Information
Website: Chicago Website
| Contact Details | |
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| Name: | Chicago Tickets |
| Phone: | 0844 412 4652 (from UK only) |
| Venue Information: | Cambridge Theatre |
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| Designed by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie and restored in 1987 to its gold and silver art-deco splendour, the Cambridge Theatre close to Cambridge Circus but actually off Seven Dials has hosted a variety of musicals from Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence (1963) and Cabaret (late 1970s) to Olivier Award winner Return to the Forbidden Planet (1989 - beating Miss Saigon), Lloyd Webber's The Beautiful Game and, most controversially, Jerry Springer - The Opera. | |
| Address: | Earlham St, Seven Dials WC2 9HH |
| Directions: | East one block from Cambridge Circus along Earlham Street. The nearest tube stations are Covent Garden (Piccadilly line), Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly lines) and Tottenham Court Road (Central and Northern lines). |
| Contact Details: | Cambridge Theatre |
| Phone: | 0870 890 1102 (See Tickets; from UK only) |
| Other Information: | Cambridge Theatre |
| Website: | Cambridge Theatre (Really Useful Theatres) Website |
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| Name: | Chicago Tickets |
| Phone: | 0844 412 4652 (from UK only) |
| Name: | Visit Britain |
| Location: | London |
| Address: | 1 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5HE |
| Phone: | +44 (0) 20 7578 1000 |
| Name: | Visit London |
| Location: | London |
| Address: | There are drop-in Tourist Information Centres in Victoria Station, Liverpool St Station, Heathrow near the underground and other venues around London. See their website for details. |
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| Name: | Visit Britain |
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Address: | 1 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5HE |
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