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1 CHICAGO THE SHOW

2 Chicago the musical: a basic introduction The background of America in the 1920’s~30’s The Jazz Age

3 CHICAGO----THE INTRO DEBUT IN 1975 (THE ORIGINAL VERSION) REVIVAL 1996
NOW ON THE Ambassador Theatre Movie version released in 2002 directed by Rob Marshall

4 Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville
Based on a book written by reporter Maurine Watkins The inspiration of the story is actually real news about two female murders. In 1926 the theater version of Chicago was born . In the 1960’s Gwen Verdon asked her husband Bob Fosse to make it a musical version of this show. In 1969 the right of publish the musical version of Chicago was given . Bob Fosse was the director and the choreography .

5 Chicago: The Musical It opened on November 14, 1996.
Chicago: The Musical won six Tony Awards Chicago is currently the eighth longest-running Broadway show ever

6 The background of America in the 1920’s~30’s

7 Prohibition in the US

8 Prohibition in the US In the history of US, Prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, is the period from 1919 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally.

9 Prohibition in the US Al Capone the gagster

10 Prohibition in the US Chicago
Is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago.

11 The Jazz Age

12 JAZZ AGE The Jazz Age describes the period after the end of World War I, through the Roaring Twenties, ending with the onset of the Great Depression.

13 JAZZ AGE = MUSIC+BAGGY CLOTHE+ BLINGBLINGS+…….. RAP

14 JAZZ AGE THE FLAPPERS: In the 1920s referred to
a "new breed" of young women Short skirts Bob hair Jazz Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

15 JAZZ AGE jazz cabarets This is the place
where people go and enjoy performances with most of the time their dinner.

16 JAZZ AGE

17 Reference: The Answer .com Chicago Jazz by William Howland Kenney page xiii Lone Star College – Kingwood Wikipedia: Wikipedia: The Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens Conversing with Ourselves:Canon, Freedom, Jazz by CATHERINE GUNTHER KODAT Sexual objectification, racial discrimination, and "all that jazz" By Alexander-Barr, Roxan Chicago (Review) By Lane, Cara Ann Wikipedia: Wikipedia:


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