Pantochino Teen Theatre: Chicago

Chicago Teen Edition is Bob Fosse's razzle dazzle musical about fame, fortune, love, murder and all that jazz. Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Based on a play by Maurine Dallas Watkins. Adapted by David Thompson. In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap... until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess," Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream": fame, fortune, and acquittal. Performed by thirty local teens. Sponsored by The Milford Bank.