United Kingdom Kander & Ebb’s Chicago the Musical: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 3.3.2025. (JPr)
Djalenga Scott (entrance centre, Velma Kelly) and firm of Chicago © Paul Coltas
Chicago is 50 years outdated and – as I started my evaluate after seeing it on the Cliffs Pavilion in 2022 – ‘there is little new I can add to the praise it has garnered on Broadway or in countless productions throughout the world’. I can nonetheless suggest the musical extremely, particularly when you have by no means seen it earlier than, and positively on this iteration when Janette Manrara (well-known from Strictly Come Dancing) makes an astounding position debut as Roxie Hart. Proving a triple-threat as actor, singer and dancer and Manrara’s efficiency – remembering how on the Cliffs Pavilion it was her very first on the present tour – was worthy not solely of the West Finish, however Broadway itself. Nearly as good as Brooke Shields was after I noticed her make a West Finish stage debut as Roxie at London’s Adelphi Theatre in 2005, and Faye Brookes additionally was in 2022, they have been each eclipsed by Manrara, for my part.
Matron ‘Mama’ Morton controls the jail block and takes bribes off the women to place them within the public eye. Presently she is orchestrating Velma’s acquittal and a possible return to vaudeville the place she used to seem along with her sister. Nonetheless, Velma loses the limelight when Roxie comes alongside, with the immoral pair quickly extra engaged in self-promotion than the perilousness of their life and loss of life predicament. Each Velma and Roxie ultimately come to phrases with the fickleness of their ‘murderer-of-the-week’ fame and bond. A lot enjoyable is had by all alongside the way in which, with real-life peril intruding solely as soon as – and really thought-provokingly – as a Hungarian inmate is hung (principally offstage) regardless of protesting her innocence with the one two English phrases she seemingly is aware of, ‘Not guilty’.
Chicago is a timeless story of lust, adultery, jealousy, homicide, duplicity, corruption, greed, exploitation and has survived when an enormous variety of different musicals have fallen by the wayside over its 5 a long time. Mama Morton begins ‘Class’ – the philosophical second act quantity with Velma – with the phrases ‘The whole world’s gone low-brow. Issues ain’t what they was once’. Chicago stays a very elegant musical and proves typically you simply want a small band taking part in reside on the stage – and a part of the present themselves – in addition to, its uncommon confluence of an ideal songwriting workforce, John Kander and Fred Ebb, with a legendary choreographer, Bob Fosse (who additionally labored on the ebook).
Chicago is due to this fact an instance of musicals as they used to be and presumably are usually not anymore. After their great success in 1966 with Cabaret, it’s the easy cabaret setting of Kander and Ebb’s jazz-age follow-up musical – which originated with director Walter Bobbie’s 1996 Broadway revival – that proves how throwing cash at units and costumes typically isn’t obligatory for a musical to achieve success. However, and it’s a massive ‘but’, performing it so reverentially for 50 years signifies that – as a staging – it’s at risk of turning into Fosse-ilised. Significantly as Fosse’s choreography is now over-familiar from Strictly Come Dancing; and each associated touring dance present you will note from the likes of Anton du Beke, Giovanni Pernici, Janette Manara (herself with husband Aljaž Škorjanec) and so many others.
I first noticed Chicago because the 2002 Oscar-winning movie, so I used to be coming again to it for a fourth time and – as I wrote in 2022 – it made me recall pleased recollections of Shirley MacLaine bringing what was important her cabaret present to the London Palladium in 1976. Alan Johnson’s choreography for what was primarily a one-woman present was Fosse-esque and for a subsequent CD launch (from a later run in New York) Elton John wrote how he was ‘captivated’ by it and the way ‘Every facet of her act was superb — singing, comedy, dancing and most of all warmth and complete mastery of her audience. The lady is quite simply a lesson in professionalism for any other performer.’ Though each member of the corporate of the present Chicago the Musical revival – with its routines equally grounded in vaudeville – made this night at Cliffs Pavilion equally as memorable as that Palladium efficiency; Elton John’s phrases precisely describe how I felt about Manrara’s efficiency as Roxie.
So, Chicago – it have to be admitted – is ‘of its time’ and I doubt anybody would develop a brand new musical at the moment the place almost everyone seems to be so handsome, impossibly tall (with one exception!) and plenty of put on William Ivey Lengthy’s tight-fitting, black – ceaselessly sheer and virtually non-existent – costumes to intensify the present’s sensuality. The ladies notably seem like singers not too long ago attending the BRIT Awards!
Significantly entertaining is the breaking of the fourth wall with musical numbers being launched and having the band’s conductor – right here the exuberant Neil MacDonald – work together with the forged at occasions in the course of the musical. Earlier than Chicago ends characters ask for his or her ‘exit music’ and the way becoming it’s for the marvellous musicians to maintain taking part in on irrepressibly as their viewers go away the theatre.
Revivals of Chicago are (in)well-known for a revolving door, casting-wise, of its musical theatre veterans and newbies with ‘celebrities’ from music, movie and TV showing typically in brief runs. In fact, so long as they bring about some individuality to their efficiency their background is irrelevant. As soon as once more there’s a particularly proficient, dynamic, all-round glorious ensemble led by Manrara’s Roxie who – as steered earlier – acts, sings and dances up a storm because the tart with a chilly coronary heart.
Kevin Clifton (centre, Billy Flynn) and firm of Chicago © Paul Coltas
Joshua Lloyd because the badly-treated Amos Hart endures his humiliations stoically and deserves all of the sympathy he will get for his deeply affecting ‘Mr Cellophane’ about his perceived invisibility. The choreography (recreated right here by Gary Chryst) is in Fosse’s type by his muse Ann Reinking and – as in 2022 – it’s Djalenga Scott (Velma) who’s the truest as any to Fosse’s signature jazz type with some spectacular angular poses, twirls, excessive kicks and concluding cartwheel. In comparison with Roxie, Scott’s Velma is extra of a cynical femme fatale and her ‘I Can’t Do It Alone’ as she tries to influence Roxie to recreate her sister act when each get launched – by breathlessly exhibiting what the 2 had carried out – was a tour de drive. One other Strictly alumnus Kevin Clifton was Billy Flynn. He was removed from the world-weary silver fox this character typically could be, and the charismatic Clifton makes him the epitome of the shyster lawyer. He sings pleasantly and ‘All I Care About’ – a Ziegfeld parody quantity concerning the lawyer’s love of cash – is at all times a showstopper with the refrain ladies wielding their giant ostrich feather followers.
Finishing the principal forged was Jordan Lee Davies because the obliging tabloid reporter Miss Sunshine. As in 2022 I had remembered completely nothing about this character, so the eventual reveal got here once more as an enormous shock! Suffice to say I then understood higher her uncommon sounding ‘A Little Bit of Good’. Changing Brenda Edwards, Victoria Anderson’s Mama Morton was undoubtedly corruptible although you can imagine her when she sang ‘I’m the most important mom hen’ – suggesting one other aspect to her – throughout ‘When You’re Good to Mama’, the undoubted spotlight of Anderson’s efficiency.
Chicago nonetheless has all of the ‘Razzle Dazzle’ you can need and if you are able to do catch it on its tour which continues until August (for info click on right here).
Jim Pritchard
Featured Picture: Janette Manrara (Roxie Hart) © Matt Crockett
Forged:Janette Manrara – Roxie HartDjalenga Scott – Velma KellyVictoria Anderson – Matron ‘Mama’ MortonKevin Clifton – Billy FlynnJoshua Lloyd – Amos HartJordan Lee Davies – Mary Sunshine
Ensemble: Bethany Adamson, Josh Crowther, Joe Dale, Jessica Keable, Robin Kent, Annabelle Laing, Jacob McLay, Jonathan Milton, George Olney, Ellie Shaw (Assistant Dance Captain), Lucy Anne Stacey, Matthew Candy, Ria TanakaSwing: Oliver Ramsdale (Dance Captain)
Creatives:Music, Guide & Lyrics – John Kander and Fred EbbCo-Creator – Bob FosseOriginal New York Director – Walter BobbieOriginal New York Choreographer – Ann Reinking (within the type of Bob Fosse)Set design – John Lee BeattyCostume design – William Ivey LongLighting design – Ken BillingtonRecreation of Authentic Path – Tânia NardiniRecreation of Authentic Choreography – Gary ChrystRecreation of Authentic Sound design – Matt GroundsScript Adaptation – David ThompsonOrchestrations – Ralph BurnsMusic Director – Rob FisherUK Tour Music Supervisor – Adrian KirkUK Tour Music Director – Neil MacDonald
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