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* WinBackTheCrowd: Along with ''Film/MoulinRouge'', this revived interest in movie musicals.
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* WinBackTheCrowd: Along with ''Film/MoulinRouge'', this revived interest in movie musicals, particularly live-action musicals.
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* GeniusBonus: Velma kills her sister and husband at the Hotel Cicero. The real Cicero was an ancient Roman philosopher who acquired a posthumous reputation as a virtuous and moral leader working for the public good, but was later discovered to be a hypocritical opportunist who privately disagreed with all of the principles he argued for--not unlike Velma's own dramatically changed public image after her double homicide.
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* MagnificentBastard: [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] is Velma Kelly's {{greed}}y, smooth-talking lawyer. After learning of Roxie Hart's incarceration and seeking to earn more money, Flynn decides to become her lawyer as well. Over the span of several weeks, Flynn teaches Roxie how to earn sympathy from the public whilst also manipulating multiple reporters into thinking she killed her victim in self-defense. During Roxie's trial, Flynn cajoles Roxie's husband, Amos, into forgiving Roxie and accuses a district attorney of tampering with evidence incriminating Roxie--evidence Flynn fabricated himself. Due to Flynn's conniving words, Roxie is declared not guilty, and Flynn walks away having won another case.
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* MagnificentBastard: [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] is Velma Kelly's {{greed}}y, smooth-talking lawyer. After learning of Roxie Hart's incarceration and seeking to earn more money, Flynn decides to become her lawyer as well. Over the span of several weeks, Flynn teaches Roxie how to earn sympathy from the public whilst also manipulating multiple reporters into thinking she killed her victim in self-defense. During Roxie's trial, Flynn cajoles Roxie's husband, Amos, into forgiving Roxie and Roxie, making her more sympathetic to the jury. [[Film/{{Chicago}} In the film]], Billy also accuses a district attorney of tampering with evidence incriminating Roxie--evidence Roxie, [[FramingTheGuiltyParty evidence Flynn fabricated himself. himself]], while also using the evidence to get Velma acquitted. Due to Flynn's conniving words, Roxie is declared not guilty, and Flynn walks away having won another case.case.
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!!Both the film and the musical
* MagnificentBastard: [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] is Velma Kelly's {{greed}}y, smooth-talking lawyer. After learning of Roxie Hart's incarceration and seeking to earn more money, Flynn decides to become her lawyer as well. Over the span of several weeks, Flynn teaches Roxie how to earn sympathy from the public whilst also manipulating multiple reporters into thinking she killed her victim in self-defense. During Roxie's trial, Flynn cajoles Roxie's husband, Amos, into forgiving Roxie and accuses a district attorney of tampering with evidence incriminating Roxie--evidence Flynn fabricated himself. Due to Flynn's conniving words, Roxie is declared not guilty, and Flynn walks away having won another case.
* MagnificentBastard: [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] is Velma Kelly's {{greed}}y, smooth-talking lawyer. After learning of Roxie Hart's incarceration and seeking to earn more money, Flynn decides to become her lawyer as well. Over the span of several weeks, Flynn teaches Roxie how to earn sympathy from the public whilst also manipulating multiple reporters into thinking she killed her victim in self-defense. During Roxie's trial, Flynn cajoles Roxie's husband, Amos, into forgiving Roxie and accuses a district attorney of tampering with evidence incriminating Roxie--evidence Flynn fabricated himself. Due to Flynn's conniving words, Roxie is declared not guilty, and Flynn walks away having won another case.
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* MagnificentBastard:
** [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] is Velma Kelly's {{greed}}y, smooth-talking lawyer. After learning of Roxie Hart's incarceration and seeking to earn more money, Flynn decides to become her lawyer as well. Over the span of several weeks, Flynn teaches Roxie how to earn sympathy from the public whilst also manipulating multiple reporters into thinking she killed her victim in self-defense. During Roxie's trial, Flynn cajoles Roxie's husband, Amos, into forgiving Roxie and accuses a district attorney of tampering with evidence incriminating Roxie--evidence Flynn fabricated himself. Due to Flynn's conniving words, Roxie is declared not guilty, and Flynn walks away having won another case.
** You may not like Big Mama Morton, but it's hard not to admire her confident, unapologetic attitude toward the corrupt set-up she's got going. She's the worst person to put in a position of authority when it comes to things like fair and equitable treatment of her charges and upholding the law, but if an inmate can get in her good graces (by paying her enough), she's the best possible ally to have inside the prison and will take a genuine interest in their well-being, to the point of assisting the aforementioned AmoralAttorney in doing unscrupulous things to help their case and keeping them updated on relevant events on the outside; she'll even allow her special "girls" small luxuries, like hanging out in her private office to listen to the radio. Just keep the money coming and Mama really ''will'' be good to you.
** [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] is Velma Kelly's {{greed}}y, smooth-talking lawyer. After learning of Roxie Hart's incarceration and seeking to earn more money, Flynn decides to become her lawyer as well. Over the span of several weeks, Flynn teaches Roxie how to earn sympathy from the public whilst also manipulating multiple reporters into thinking she killed her victim in self-defense. During Roxie's trial, Flynn cajoles Roxie's husband, Amos, into forgiving Roxie and accuses a district attorney of tampering with evidence incriminating Roxie--evidence Flynn fabricated himself. Due to Flynn's conniving words, Roxie is declared not guilty, and Flynn walks away having won another case.
** You may not like Big Mama Morton, but it's hard not to admire her confident, unapologetic attitude toward the corrupt set-up she's got going. She's the worst person to put in a position of authority when it comes to things like fair and equitable treatment of her charges and upholding the law, but if an inmate can get in her good graces (by paying her enough), she's the best possible ally to have inside the prison and will take a genuine interest in their well-being, to the point of assisting the aforementioned AmoralAttorney in doing unscrupulous things to help their case and keeping them updated on relevant events on the outside; she'll even allow her special "girls" small luxuries, like hanging out in her private office to listen to the radio. Just keep the money coming and Mama really ''will'' be good to you.
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** Is June a cheating wife who killed her understandably angry husband when he confronted her, or an abused wife who killed her husband in self-defense when he unjustly accused her of being unfaithful?
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* MagnificentBastard: [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] is Velma Kelly's {{greed}}y, smooth-talking lawyer. After learning of Roxie Hart's incarceration and seeking to earn more money, Flynn decides to become her lawyer as well. Over the span of several weeks, Flynn teaches Roxie how to earn sympathy from the public whilst also manipulating multiple reporters into thinking she killed her victim in self-defense. During Roxie's trial, Flynn cajoles Roxie's husband, Amos, into forgiving Roxie and accuses a district attorney of tampering with evidence incriminating Roxie--evidence Flynn fabricated himself. Due to Flynn's conniving words, Roxie is declared not guilty, and Flynn walks away having won another case.
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* MagnificentBastard: MagnificentBastard:
** [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] is Velma Kelly's {{greed}}y, smooth-talking lawyer. After learning of Roxie Hart's incarceration and seeking to earn more money, Flynn decides to become her lawyer as well. Over the span of several weeks, Flynn teaches Roxie how to earn sympathy from the public whilst also manipulating multiple reporters into thinking she killed her victim in self-defense. During Roxie's trial, Flynn cajoles Roxie's husband, Amos, into forgiving Roxie and accuses a district attorney of tampering with evidence incriminating Roxie--evidence Flynn fabricated himself. Due to Flynn's conniving words, Roxie is declared not guilty, and Flynn walks away having won anothercase.case.
** You may not like Big Mama Morton, but it's hard not to admire her confident, unapologetic attitude toward the corrupt set-up she's got going. She's the worst person to put in a position of authority when it comes to things like fair and equitable treatment of her charges and upholding the law, but if an inmate can get in her good graces (by paying her enough), she's the best possible ally to have inside the prison and will take a genuine interest in their well-being, to the point of assisting the aforementioned AmoralAttorney in doing unscrupulous things to help their case and keeping them updated on relevant events on the outside; she'll even allow her special "girls" small luxuries, like hanging out in her private office to listen to the radio. Just keep the money coming and Mama really ''will'' be good to you.
** [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] is Velma Kelly's {{greed}}y, smooth-talking lawyer. After learning of Roxie Hart's incarceration and seeking to earn more money, Flynn decides to become her lawyer as well. Over the span of several weeks, Flynn teaches Roxie how to earn sympathy from the public whilst also manipulating multiple reporters into thinking she killed her victim in self-defense. During Roxie's trial, Flynn cajoles Roxie's husband, Amos, into forgiving Roxie and accuses a district attorney of tampering with evidence incriminating Roxie--evidence Flynn fabricated himself. Due to Flynn's conniving words, Roxie is declared not guilty, and Flynn walks away having won another
** You may not like Big Mama Morton, but it's hard not to admire her confident, unapologetic attitude toward the corrupt set-up she's got going. She's the worst person to put in a position of authority when it comes to things like fair and equitable treatment of her charges and upholding the law, but if an inmate can get in her good graces (by paying her enough), she's the best possible ally to have inside the prison and will take a genuine interest in their well-being, to the point of assisting the aforementioned AmoralAttorney in doing unscrupulous things to help their case and keeping them updated on relevant events on the outside; she'll even allow her special "girls" small luxuries, like hanging out in her private office to listen to the radio. Just keep the money coming and Mama really ''will'' be good to you.
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** "Give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle" is often quoted in reference to scenes resembling a "performance," like animals in flamboyant poses.
** "HE HAD IT COMIN'!" is often used when someone gets royally burned.
** "HE HAD IT COMIN'!" is often used when someone gets royally burned.
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** "Give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle" is often quoted in reference to scenes resembling a "performance," like animals in flamboyant poses.
** "HE HAD IT COMIN'!" is often used when someone gets royally burned.
** "HE HAD IT COMIN'!" is often used when someone gets royally burned.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The musical is no less troublesome for those seeking family-friendly entertainment. After all, it takes place in Prohibition-era Chicago, home of gangsters, flappers, illegal booze, and murder. Several numbers take place in a murderer's prison, and there's cursing in some of the lyrics. This doesn't deter some middle schools from performing it.
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Misuse. "murder bad" isn't a value anyone was ever contesting.
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* ValuesDissonance: This is actually the reason why Maurine Dallas Watkins didn't want to sell the play as a musical; as a born-again Christian, she wrote her ''Chicago'' as a morbid 1920s satire of the legal system and [[https://duluthplayhouse.org/a-little-history-behind-chicago-twelfth-night/#:~:text=Chicago%20originated%20from%20a%201926,name%20by%20Maurine%20Dallas%20Watkins.&text=Fosse%20ran%20into%20a%20roadblock,to%20glorify%20an%20obscene%20lifestyle atonement for her part in getting two murderesses acquitted as a tabloid journalist]]. Watkins felt that turning ''Chicago'' into a musical vaudeville would cheapen the meaning and glorify said murderesses. To honor the original message, Ben Fosse and Gwen Verdon used the vaudeville acts and flippant costumes to reinforce that murder is never okay, and justice doesn't always prevail.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The musical is no less troublesome for those seeking family-friendly entertainment. After all, it takes place in Prohibition-era Chicago, home of gangsters, flappers, illegal booze, and murder. Several numbers take place in a murderer's prison, and there's cursing in some of the lyrics. This doesn't deter some middle schools from performing it.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The musical is no less troublesome for those seeking family-friendly entertainment. After all, it takes place in Prohibition-era Chicago, home of gangsters, flappers, illegal booze, and murder. Several numbers take place in a murderer's prison, and there's cursing in some of the lyrics. This doesn't deter some middle schools from performing it.
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This has nothing to do with the work itself.
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* ValuesDissonance:
** One of the real-life murderesses featured in the play found it funny. She went to see the premiere, showing no hard feelings. These days, her lawyers would probably advise her to examine potential areas for libel.
** This is actually the reason why Maurine Dallas Watkins didn't want to sell the play as a musical; as a born-again Christian, she wrote her ''Chicago'' as a morbid 1920s satire of the legal system and [[https://duluthplayhouse.org/a-little-history-behind-chicago-twelfth-night/#:~:text=Chicago%20originated%20from%20a%201926,name%20by%20Maurine%20Dallas%20Watkins.&text=Fosse%20ran%20into%20a%20roadblock,to%20glorify%20an%20obscene%20lifestyle atonement for her part in getting two murderesses acquitted as a tabloid journalist]]. Watkins felt that turning ''Chicago'' into a musical vaudeville would cheapen the meaning and glorify said murderesses. To honor the original message, Ben Fosse and Gwen Verdon used the vaudeville acts and flippant costumes to reinforce that murder is never okay, and justice doesn't always prevail.
** One of the real-life murderesses featured in the play found it funny. She went to see the premiere, showing no hard feelings. These days, her lawyers would probably advise her to examine potential areas for libel.
** This is actually the reason why Maurine Dallas Watkins didn't want to sell the play as a musical; as a born-again Christian, she wrote her ''Chicago'' as a morbid 1920s satire of the legal system and [[https://duluthplayhouse.org/a-little-history-behind-chicago-twelfth-night/#:~:text=Chicago%20originated%20from%20a%201926,name%20by%20Maurine%20Dallas%20Watkins.&text=Fosse%20ran%20into%20a%20roadblock,to%20glorify%20an%20obscene%20lifestyle atonement for her part in getting two murderesses acquitted as a tabloid journalist]]. Watkins felt that turning ''Chicago'' into a musical vaudeville would cheapen the meaning and glorify said murderesses. To honor the original message, Ben Fosse and Gwen Verdon used the vaudeville acts and flippant costumes to reinforce that murder is never okay, and justice doesn't always prevail.
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* ValuesDissonance:
** One of the real-life murderesses featured in the play found it funny. She went to see the premiere, showing no hard feelings. These days, her lawyers would probably advise her to examine potential areas for libel.
**ValuesDissonance: This is actually the reason why Maurine Dallas Watkins didn't want to sell the play as a musical; as a born-again Christian, she wrote her ''Chicago'' as a morbid 1920s satire of the legal system and [[https://duluthplayhouse.org/a-little-history-behind-chicago-twelfth-night/#:~:text=Chicago%20originated%20from%20a%201926,name%20by%20Maurine%20Dallas%20Watkins.&text=Fosse%20ran%20into%20a%20roadblock,to%20glorify%20an%20obscene%20lifestyle atonement for her part in getting two murderesses acquitted as a tabloid journalist]]. Watkins felt that turning ''Chicago'' into a musical vaudeville would cheapen the meaning and glorify said murderesses. To honor the original message, Ben Fosse and Gwen Verdon used the vaudeville acts and flippant costumes to reinforce that murder is never okay, and justice doesn't always prevail.
** One of the real-life murderesses featured in the play found it funny. She went to see the premiere, showing no hard feelings. These days, her lawyers would probably advise her to examine potential areas for libel.
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