<Li> 2018 West End </Li> <Li> 2018 International Tour </Li> <P> Chicago is an American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse . Set in Jazz Age Chicago, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes she reported on . The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal". </P> <P> The original Broadway production opened in 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances until 1977 . Bob Fosse choreographed the original production, and his style is strongly identified with the show . Following a West End debut in 1979 which ran for 600 performances, Chicago was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End . </P>

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