The Genesis of Chicago, Part II
By Peter Filichia Because the current revival of Chicago recently passed Cats to become the second-longest running musical in Broadway history, I decided to go back forty-one years and look at the script that John Kander, Fred Ebb and Fosse had on August 3, 1973. This was coincidentally twenty-two months to the day before the original production made its Broadway debut on June 3, 1975. Faithful readers …