Songs such as ‘I am My Own Best Friend’ the Bossa Nova duet for Roxie and Velma, the chirpy ‘Me and My Baby’, ‘When Velma Takes the Stand’, ‘I Know a Girl’ and ‘ A Little Bit of Good’ were all cut to save time on screen. Whilst both the stage show and movie use many of the same songs, written by Broadway legends John Kander and Fredd Ebb, only the stage show features the full score. We wondered which would fair better across a number of different categories and put the two head to head. Many fans of the show love the film, and others come to see the show live after enjoying the film so much. Thanks to the 2002 Miramax film the show became a household name, winning the first Best Picture Oscar for a musical since 1964.

Numerous UK and US tours, as well as New York and London productions and shows in countries such as China, Hungary and Germany have added to its success around the world. ”Chicago” is a giddy celebration of getting away with it, in all its merry forms.The Broadway and West End Musical ‘Chicago’ has been running since 1997. Billy, with his corrupt dimples, has a simple strategy: He’ll transform Roxie into a tabloid celebrity, knowing that the charisma of her bad-girl fame will let her off the hook. Roxie also gets hooked up with the infamous Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), a charlatan lawyer who has never lost a case of a woman accused of homicide. Zeta-Jones sets the film’s tone with her sensational performance of ”All That Jazz,” in which she keeps stretching out the word Jazzzzz! so that it blares like a trumpet powered by a gust of pure libido. Bravado is all - far more vital than morality - and ”Chicago,” freshly transplanted from the stage, is a thrilling ode to the intertwined glories of sex, showmanship, and lying: what the film calls ”the old razzle-dazzle.” In jail, Roxie meets her idol, the flapper-haired vaudeville star Velma Kelly, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones with a tigress voice and a vamp’s sloe-eyed cunning. They’ll sing and dance in sleazy nightclubs, kill their boring and ruthless spouses, and become infamous to escape punishment for their crimes. Set during the late bloom of the Jazz Age, ”Chicago,” in its caustic high-spirited way, presents us with a vision of women on the cusp of feminism who will do anything to break free of the conventionality imposed by men.

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