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Chicago: The Musical has run for more than 11,000 performances [48] [49] and holds the record for longest-running musical revival on Broadway. [50] Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, James Naughton, and Joel Grey returned for cameo appearances. [51] The cast recording of the revival was released on January 28, 1997, on RCA Victor. [52]
An original cast recording or OCR, as the name implies, features the voices of the show's original cast. A cast recording featuring the first cast to perform a musical in a particular venue is known, for example, as an "original Broadway cast recording" (OBCR) or an "original London cast recording" (OLCR).
The original Broadway cast album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008. Selections from the show were broadcast in 1979 on Musical Comedy Tonight hosted by Sylvia Fine, with songs performed by Carol Burnett, Richard Chamberlain, Sandy Duncan, and Bernadette Peters. [citation needed]
Nicholas Hammond in 'The Sound of Music' (1965) ; Nicholas Hammond attends opening night of "CHICAGO the Musical" at Capitol Theatre on June 13, 2024 in Sydney, Australia.
The original Broadway production ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history until surpassed by Cats in 1997, and the longest-running Broadway musical originally produced in the US, until surpassed in 2011 by the revival of Chicago. It remains the seventh longest-running Broadway show ever.
A longtime cast member in Broadway's 'Chicago' died by suicide after allegedly enduring brutal bullying from the director and musical director.
Broadway's longest-running show and musical; First ever Broadway production with total performances to achieve each additional 1,000 performance increment from 8,000+ through 13,000+ 2 Chicago (1996 revival) M 11,121 [2] November 14, 1996: 6 Tony Awards in 1997, including Best Revival of a Musical
Chicago is a play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins.The play, while fiction, is a satire based on two unrelated 1924 court cases involving two women, Beulah Annan (the inspiration for Roxie Hart) and Belva Gaertner (the inspiration for Velma Kelly), who were both suspected and later acquitted of murder, whom Watkins had covered for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter.