Review: Muny closes season with a razzle-dazzle trip to 'Chicago'
“Chicago,” which closes the Muny’s long-awaited 103rd season, is what theater is all about. Set in the Windy City in the 1920s, the smartly entertaining musical revels in its sheer audacity, spinning off songs that are jazzy, catchy and unapologetically cynical.
In its original 1975 Broadway production, “Chicago” was ahead of its time. But its revival in 1996 found the show very much in sync with the cultural moment. Still running a quarter-century later, the longest-running American musical in Broadway history has remained just as relevant.
