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• Razzle dazzle 'em! Chicago's creators on how to make a billion-dollar musical

  15-03-2018 07:00
  As the murderous, magical musical high-kicks into the West End, its composer John Kander and Ann Reinking – aka the ‘jazz killer’ Roxie Hart – reveal the dark secrets of its successIn the spring of 1924, Maurine Watkins, a young reporter for the Chicago Tribune, covered a murder trial in which a 24-year-old woman stood accused of shooting her lover. While Harry Kalstedt lay dying, prosecutors claimed, Beulah May Annan played jazz records and drank cocktails over his cooli
  
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• Fights, fishnets and backbends: the rotten razzle-dazzle of Chicago

  15-03-2018 07:00
  As the murderous $1bn musical returns to London, composer John Kander and Ann Reinking, one of the first Roxies, unpick the secrets of its successIn the spring of 1924, Maurine Watkins, a young reporter for the Chicago Tribune, covered a murder trial in which a 24-year-old woman stood accused of shooting her lover. While Harry Kalstedt lay dying, prosecutors claimed, Beulah May Annan played jazz records and drank cocktails over his cooling body. Even after she was acquitted, the Tribune continue
  
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