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* ValuesDissonance:
** One of the real-life murderesses featured in the play found it ActuallyPrettyFunny. 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 ActuallyPrettyFunny. 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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* CatharsisFactor: Most of the murders are NightmareFuel and DisproportionateRetribution. On the other hand, while Kitty murdered two women for the crime of sleeping with her husband, said husband is TooDumbToLive and was an idiot by having them over by the time she came home. Anyone who says to their angry spouse, "Are you going to believe what you see or what I tell you?" deserves to get gunned down.
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* {{Narm}}: The bridge of "Stay the Night." The last line leading into the guitar solo has Peter grunting, "We're gonna have a very good time!" as if it's the most important thing he's ever said.
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* HypeBacklash: Soon after it won big at the Oscars (it beat ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', ''Film/ThePianist'' and ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' for Best Picture), this set in.
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* HypeBacklash: Soon after it won big at the Oscars (it beat ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', ''Film/ThePianist'' ''Film/ThePianist'', ''Film/TheHours'' and ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' for Best Picture), this set in.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The legal system is a farce and a circus, and fame will let you get away with anything. Additionally, if you are falsely accused of murder, you're more likely to get executed than someone who did. The saddest thing is that much too often this is [[TruthInTelevision true]].
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Amos is very popular for being the only major character who’s actually a good person, acting as a great source of laughs and being quite a {{Woobie}}. In a musical filled with big flashy numbers, his solo is simple, honest, and always stops the shows.
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* CryForTheDevil: Go-To-Hell Kitty is a murderess and we know she gunned down two innocent women. Look at her face, however, when she sees them in bed with her husband; it's a mix of heartbreak and anger. When the police are dragging her into jail, she's refusing to listen to Billy, whom her mother hired, and pretty much says she's sorry she got caught because her husband deserved it. It's highly possible she's suffering a psychotic break and her defiant attitude is NotAnAct.
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** Kitty in the film is still a murderess, but you can tell she was really hurt by her husband cheating on her and wants no part in the media circus that follows. Her response to a journalist asking if she knew the woman she killed is a DeathGlare and GroinAttack. It's more than like that, unlike Roxie and Velma, she truly had a psychotic break and would rather go to jail than have Billy representing her.
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* SongAssociation: After being memetically mashed up with a reading of the Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} article for [[GroinAttack cock and ball torture]], the song "Old Days" is almost exclusively associated with the latter by netizens.
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* ClicheStorm: "Press Conference Rag" starts with one. It is not immediately recognizable as such to a modern audience, but Roxie's entire BackStory as given ([[CountryMouse girl from the sticks]], [[RichPeople rich family]], [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest dead parents]], [[OrphanageOfLove convent education]], VagueAge, ShotgunWedding) was, for TheRoaringTwenties, a condensate of what every woman entering show business claimed about her background. By 1927 (when the original play was written) it was such a cliché that, had the author tried to play it any other way than a blatant attempt by an AmoralAttorney to drum up cheap sympathy for his client, the audience's reaction would be eye rolls and "AndImTheQueenOfSheba".
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* ClicheStorm: "Press Conference Rag" starts with one. It is not immediately recognizable as such to a modern audience, but Roxie's entire BackStory as given ([[CountryMouse girl from the sticks]], [[RichPeople rich family]], [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest dead parents]], [[OrphanageOfLove convent education]], VagueAge, ShotgunWedding) was, for TheRoaringTwenties, a condensate combination of what every woman entering show business claimed about her background. By 1927 (when the original play was written) it was such a cliché that, had the author tried to play it any other way than a blatant attempt by an AmoralAttorney to drum up cheap sympathy for his client, the audience's reaction would be eye rolls and "AndImTheQueenOfSheba".
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** Hunyak's execution.
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** Hunyak's execution. She's [[TokenGoodTeammate the only innocent woman of "The Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail"]] and [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth the only one to be found guilty and executed]].
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* HollywoodPudgy:
** Roxie snarks at Velma to "lay off the caramels". On the other hand, Roxie isn't exactly a nice person, and might just want to snub her back because Velma insulted her before. The film fits this trope even better than some of the stage versions, because in the movie, the line comes right after Creator/CatherineZetaJones completes a rather intricate and impressive one-woman dance routine... while several months pregnant.
** Meanwhile, Roxie--played by the shapely Creator/ReneeZellweger--is told that no one wants to see her [[HollywoodHomely "scrawny legs"]] on a stage.
** Roxie snarks at Velma to "lay off the caramels". On the other hand, Roxie isn't exactly a nice person, and might just want to snub her back because Velma insulted her before. The film fits this trope even better than some of the stage versions, because in the movie, the line comes right after Creator/CatherineZetaJones completes a rather intricate and impressive one-woman dance routine... while several months pregnant.
** Meanwhile, Roxie--played by the shapely Creator/ReneeZellweger--is told that no one wants to see her [[HollywoodHomely "scrawny legs"]] on a stage.
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* HollywoodPudgy:
**HollywoodPudgy: Roxie snarks at Velma to "lay off the caramels". On the other hand, Roxie isn't exactly a nice person, and might just want to snub her back because Velma insulted her before. The film fits this trope even better than some of the stage versions, because in the movie, the line comes right after Creator/CatherineZetaJones completes a rather intricate and impressive one-woman dance routine... while several months pregnant.
** * HollywoodThin: Meanwhile, Roxie--played by the shapely Creator/ReneeZellweger--is told that no one wants to see her [[HollywoodHomely "scrawny legs"]] on a stage.
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** On that note, "Number 17: THE SPREAD EAGLE!"
** On that note, "Number 17: THE SPREAD EAGLE!"
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**On that note, "Number 17: THE SPREAD EAGLE!"
** "He ran into my knife ''ten times''."
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** "HE HAD IT COMIN'!" is often used when someone gets royally burned.
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* HypeBacklash: Soon after it won big at the Oscars (it beat ''Film/TheTwoTowers'', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', ''Film/ThePianist'' and ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' for Best Picture), this set in.
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* HollywoodPudgy: Roxie snarks at Velma to "lay off the caramels". On the other hand, Roxie isn't exactly a nice person, and might just want to snub her back because Velma insulted her before.
** The film fits this trope even better than some of the stage versions, because in the movie, the line comes right after Creator/CatherineZetaJones completes a rather intricate and impressive one-woman dance routine... while several months pregnant.
** The film fits this trope even better than some of the stage versions, because in the movie, the line comes right after Creator/CatherineZetaJones completes a rather intricate and impressive one-woman dance routine... while several months pregnant.
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* HollywoodPudgy: HollywoodPudgy:
** Roxie snarks at Velma to "lay off the caramels". On the other hand, Roxie isn't exactly a nice person, and might just want to snub her back because Velma insulted herbefore.
**before. The film fits this trope even better than some of the stage versions, because in the movie, the line comes right after Creator/CatherineZetaJones completes a rather intricate and impressive one-woman dance routine... while several months pregnant.
** Roxie snarks at Velma to "lay off the caramels". On the other hand, Roxie isn't exactly a nice person, and might just want to snub her back because Velma insulted her
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In the movie. Was Velma aware that Roxie stole her underwear from the Hunyak in order to suck up to her?
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** Was Velma aware that Roxie stole her underwear from the Hunyak in order to suck up to her?
** Was Velma aware that Roxie stole her underwear from the Hunyak in order to suck up to her?
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* CastShowoff Creator/JohnCReilly is a huge clowning aficionado, and the make-up he puts on for "Mr. Cellophane" was designed by him specifically for that act.
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* CastShowoff TheCastShowoff: Creator/JohnCReilly is a huge clowning aficionado, and the make-up he puts on for "Mr. Cellophane" was designed by him specifically for that act.
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* EarWorm: Their '80s hits may be ''the'' textbook definition of cheesy 80's power ballads, but you can't deny they are glorious ear worms. Especially "You're the Inspiration", "Will You Still Love Me?", and "Look Away".
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* EarWorm: Lots. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA6R1DMb-Z8 Cell Block Tango]] comes to mind.
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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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* 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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* 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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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The inside gatefold photo of their eleventh album, which was released in November 1977, features the band, in an antique car, being chased by a group of policemen(some of whom are firing guns)in another car. One of the guns seems pointed at the head of Terry Kath, who is driving the band’s car. In January 1978, Kath died of an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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** Did June kill her husband in a panic over him discovering her affair, or was she a faithful wife defending herself against an insanely jealous husband?
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** Amos taking the initiative to pay for his wife's lawyer. He's not conned into it; he does it without any promise that Roxie has changed.
** Roxie is shown being perfectly civil to the Hunyak. Everyone is also saddened when the latter is executed.
** Billy Flynn despite berating Amos for not bringing enough money takes the $2,000 and tells him, "Your devotion to your wife is very touching." While Flynn later does a song and dance around Amos to win Roxie's case, he seems sincere in that moment at least.
** Amos taking the initiative to pay for his wife's lawyer. He's not conned into it; he does it without any promise that Roxie has changed.
** Roxie is shown being perfectly civil to the Hunyak. Everyone is also saddened when the latter is executed.
** Billy Flynn despite berating Amos for not bringing enough money takes the $2,000 and tells him, "Your devotion to your wife is very touching." While Flynn later does a song and dance around Amos to win Roxie's case, he seems sincere in that moment at least.
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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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* ClicheStorm: "Press Conference Rag" starts with one. It is not immediately recognizable as such to a modern audience, but Roxie's entire BackStory as given ([[CountryMouse girl from the sticks]], [[RichPeople rich family]], [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest dead parents]], [[OrphanageOfLove convent education]], VagueAge, ShotgunWedding) was, for TheTwenties, a condensate of what every woman entering show business claimed about her background. By 1927 (when the original play was written) it was such a cliché that, had the author tried to play it any other way than a blatant attempt by an AmoralAttorney to drum up cheap sympathy for his client, the audience's reaction would be eye rolls and "AndImTheQueenOfSheba".
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* ClicheStorm: "Press Conference Rag" starts with one. It is not immediately recognizable as such to a modern audience, but Roxie's entire BackStory as given ([[CountryMouse girl from the sticks]], [[RichPeople rich family]], [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest dead parents]], [[OrphanageOfLove convent education]], VagueAge, ShotgunWedding) was, for TheTwenties, TheRoaringTwenties, a condensate of what every woman entering show business claimed about her background. By 1927 (when the original play was written) it was such a cliché that, had the author tried to play it any other way than a blatant attempt by an AmoralAttorney to drum up cheap sympathy for his client, the audience's reaction would be eye rolls and "AndImTheQueenOfSheba".
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* AwardSnub: The original production was nominated for eleven Tony Awards and didn't win once. This was rectified with the revival, which won six out of the eight Tonys it was nominated for.
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* HollywoodPudgy: Roxie snarks at Velma to "lay off the chocolates". On the other hand, Roxie isn't exactly a nice person, and might just want to snub her back because Velma insulted her before.
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* HollywoodPudgy: Roxie snarks at Velma to "lay off the chocolates".caramels". On the other hand, Roxie isn't exactly a nice person, and might just want to snub her back because Velma insulted her before.
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** Amos's reaction when he realizes that Roxie lied to him about murdering a burglar, that said "burglar" was a man they both knew well, and the only explanation is that his wife was cheating on him. He starts angrily ranting about how much of a "sap" he was.
** Hunyak's execution.
** Amos's reaction when he realizes that Roxie lied to him about murdering a burglar, that said "burglar" was a man they both knew well, and the only explanation is that his wife was cheating on him. He starts angrily ranting about how much of a "sap" he was.
** Hunyak's execution.
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* AwesomeMusic: ProgressiveRock and jazz-rock fans will find the first three albums to be a veritable goldmine, as well as (probably) quite a lot of ''Chicago VII''. Music/StevenWilson (of Music/PorcupineTree fame) recently remixed the second album, in case you needed more evidence of their prog cred.
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* AwesomeMusic: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ProgressiveRock and jazz-rock fans will find the first three albums to be a veritable goldmine, as well as (probably) quite a lot of ''Chicago VII''. Music/StevenWilson (of Music/PorcupineTree fame) recently remixed the second album, in case you needed more evidence of their prog cred.
