- RICHARD GERE CHICAGO RAZZLE DAZZLE MOVIE
- RICHARD GERE CHICAGO RAZZLE DAZZLE SERIES
The Relevance and Impact: The Aftermath of the Modern Day Musical (11:35). The 85th Academy Awards: A Walk Down Memory Lane (6:23). The 75th Academy Awards: And The Oscar Goes To… (14:28). The Director’s Cut: Musical History Is Made (6:50). 
The Best of Broadway: The Choreographers (3:42).
The Magicians Behind The Camera: Colleen Atwood – Dion Beebe – John Myhre (6:13). Neil Meron and Craig Zadan: Renowned Musical Producers (5:32). The Extended Cast: The Great Dancers of Chicago (9:18). Casting the Movie: Finding Actors Who Can Sing and Dance (33:05). Developing the Screenplay: Collaborating with Bill Condon (3:54). Bringing Chicago to Life: Adapting the Broadway Musical to Film (2:06). Chicago In The Spotlight – A Retrospective with Cast and Crew: A massive 2 hour and 22 minute retrospective is provided here in which many members of the cast and creative team reflect on the production of the film from pretty much every angle you could hope to explore. RICHARD GERE CHICAGO RAZZLE DAZZLE MOVIE
Audio Commentary: Director Rob Marshall and screenwriter Bill Condon deliver a very entertaining and informative commentary track in which they discuss the movie scene by scene including motivations behind the structure of the film, the precise cuts that were baked into the script, Renée Zellweger insistence on not using a stunt double, the collaborative nature between the departments, finding ways to surprise the audience, using the music as a part of the storytelling, the performances and much more that will make you glad you spent time listening to it. There have been two non-musical films of the story: "Chicago" in 1927 and "Roxie Hart" starring Ginger Rogers, in 1942. The darkly comic material, slicked up with a hot tin-and-brass sound by orchestrator Ralph Burns, who died recently, is based on a 1926 play, Chicago, by Maurine Dallas Watkins. Both played murderesses in the Windy City of the Roaring '20s who use slick lawyer Billy Flynn to get out of jail and into vaudeville careers. The 1975 staging starred Gwen Verdon as Roxie and Chita Rivera as Velma. 11, 1996, and talks of a film version have lasted nearly as long. The Chicago revival opened on Broadway on Nov. Along the way, such names as Goldie Hawn, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell were bandied about as casting possibilities, and Larry Gelbart and Wendy Wasserstein were mentioned as possible scribes. Plans to make a movie version of Chicago have dragged on for years. The score by composer Kander and lyricist Ebb is considered one of the best from the team, and includes "Razzle Dazzle," "All I Care About," "Cell Block Tango," "A Little Bit of Good," "I Can't Do It Alone," "My Own Best Friend," "Roxie" and "All That Jazz." * RICHARD GERE CHICAGO RAZZLE DAZZLE SERIES
The stage show has a free-wheeling, presentational vaudeville frame - the story is told as a series of vaudeville specialty numbers (the fan dance, the ventriloquist act, the sad clown number, etc.). It is not yet clear how screenwriter Condon is adapting the libretto by Ebb and Fosse into a film script. The movie is expected to be released at Christmas 2002. Paul Bogaev (TV's "Cinderella" and "Annie") is music director. (Britney Spears has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the bit part of "Go to Hell Kitty.") Reilly as Amos and R&B singer Mya as cellblock girl Mona. Chicago: Razzle Dazzle Edition (2002) MIRAMAX MOVIE INFO Director: Rob Marshall Cast: Richard Gere, Chatherine Zeta Jones, Renee Zellweger, Queen Latifah Writing Credits: Maurine Dallas Watkins, Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, Bill Condon Tagline: Everyone loves a legend, but in Chicago, there's only room for one. 12 in Toronto for the new feature-film musical, "Chicago," which draws on elements from the smash 1975 John Kander-Fred Ebb-Bob Fosse musical that is still enjoying a hit revival run on Broadway.ĭirected and choreographed by Rob Marshall, who scored big with TV's "Annie," the film is produced by Marty Richards and Miramax's Harvey Weinstein and executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron of Storyline Entertainment.Ī spokesman confirmed that the picture (with screenplay by Bill Condon) will star Renee Zellwegger as Roxie, Catherine Zeta Jones as Velma, Richard Gere as Billy Flynn, Queen Latifah as Matron Mama Morton, Christine Baranski as Mary Sunshine, John C.
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