Review: “Chicago” at The Muny
As distinguished as its return to the stage has been, The Muny has saved the best for last with its season finale, the Kander and Ebb masterpiece, Chicago. The musical about sensational murders receives a sensational production.
The show focuses on two women accused of murder in a fictionalized version of Jazz-Age Chicago, where the press eagerly fed the popular demand for lurid details about crime. In an unusual piece of casting, J. Harrison Ghee plays one of the murderers, Velma Kelly.
