Roxie Hart - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Roxie Hart or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Roxie Hart

[elmer]

When the two girls get into a scuffle in jail, the sound of two cats fighting and hissing is heard. A colloquial term for girls fighting is "catfight".

[lynn]

The role of Roxie was intended for Alice Faye, but she became pregnant and was unavailable.

[frances]

The original Broadway musical version of this story first ran in 1975 and broke the then record of most Tony award nominations of any Broadway play. It also set a record for being the first Broadway show to be nominated for that many awards without winning one single award, as it was overshadowed by the then Broadway smash "A Chorus Line." Chicago, the musical, was then revived in 1996, and not only won a Tony for best Broadway revival, but went on to set a record for the most Tony awards of any revival. Both Broadway versions cast the role of Mary Sunshine as a man in drag. The 2002 movie version was produced during the run of this revival, but returned to the casting of Mary Sunshine as a woman's role.

[carla]

The characters of Roxie and Velma were based on real people whose murder trials took place in 1924. Beulah Annan was the basis for Roxie and Belva Gaertner was the basis for Velma. Billy Flynn's real-life counterpart was famed Chicago shyster W.W. O'Brien.

[ethel]

The storyline had to be changed in this version in order to placate the Hays Commission code; both the silent (Chicago (1927)) and the later musical (Chicago (2002)) versions are more faithful to the original 1926 play.

[gabriel]

The original play 'Chicago' opened at the Music Box Theater on December 30, 1926 was directed by George Abbot and ran for 172 performances.

[bernard]

The rights to the film are currently owned by Disney as part of its 2019 purchase of 21st Century Fox, the parent of 20th Century Fox. Disney once owned the rights to the 2002 film that was ultimately adapted from the same play until it sold the division that produced it, Miramax, in 2010. Both versions coincidentally are musicals, but the musical numbers are different in each version.

[carl]

In 1963, Stanley Kubrick named this movie as one of his ten all-time favorite films.