Add to ORKGChicago is based on actual events that took place in Chicago in the 1920s. Written by Maurine Watkins, a young reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago was about the sensational murder trials of two “jazz babies” (Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner) “corrupted by men and liquor” who got away with murdering their boyfriends. Chicago—A Musical Vaudeville was originally conceived by the illustrious team of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb, who took this story (many of the details and some of the dialogue is verbatim) and staged it as a series of vaudeville acts to satirize the corrupt social systems, and celebrity-obsessed society of America in the 1970s. Theatre Sheridan had a lot of fun going back to the vaudeville origins of this show and ...