This isn't just some band hidden in a dug up pit. It has been seven years since we last watch Chicago and personally I still find it fresh, sexy, exciting and relevant. While the cast is completely different, the unique aspect of Chicago - the music, choreography and plot, makes it such a timeless theoretical masterpiece - such that explains how the musical has surpass ten years in West End.
A classic if I ever saw one, and one you should witness too. Posted by Jon Choo Thursday, June 12, Email This BlogThis! Reading that today my excitement comes back with such clarity. I still feel that whenever I listen to that original Broadway cast recording given to me that Christmas by my beloved auntie. Although some numbers clearly are better than others, my memory of those thrilling performances clouds my judgement and so I love just about all of them.
Even without nostalgia this show has a mighty good soundtrack. How did it take so long to become popular? Ben Cross — Billy Flyn strips almost nkd during one song!!
Lots of skimpy costumes and sexy moves. Really blue language!! Oh dear. Well I was quite a young twenty-one and to be frank I had seen nothing like this before. I had not been expecting anything quite so sexualised or profane. I had heard bits of the Cabaret soundtrack but never seen it performed, not even the film by that stage.
It felt as though the show was striking a small blow for sexual equality though just by getting him and many of the male dancers to show as much flesh as the women. With her furs and buttoned up demeanour Mary Sunshine stood out from the rest of the characters before she even opened her mouth.
But when she did I was astonished. Just when I thought this would be the most memorable thing about her came that other surprise a little later on. Those were less fluid, less playful times in many ways and the revelation about this character blew my mind. The absence from the film twenty years later of anything similar is part of what made it such a rotten film. I saw him at The Cambridge again a couple of years later in The Mikado and he was excellent once more. Unlike the play.
Yes I thought the prowling criss-crossing tango moves and sharp turns that the prisoners executed while singing about their crimes was the last word in stage choreography. Screaming in my head was: how could those women sing, remember the words and not bump into one another all at the same time? It honestly looked magical and, yes, erotic too. My Fair Lady had been short on bump n grind, let me tell you this was a different world! Subtlety was not my great strength in those days. Ellis herself had a honeyed sexy voice, prowling and padding her way through the show like a gorgeous cat.
An old lady swearing while she drank gin with a killer! She just seemed kind of old to me. She would live for another 20 years and ten days, and had a fine long career. A really strong actor too. Underrated is the term. It meant that there were four black performers in the show. My first time in with a notebook and I was already making a point of recording what representation there was.
I do not think I realised just how much it mattered at the time. Four cast members out of twenty-four was not bad for Our Price. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more!
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