I saw it and loved it.
I was slightly disappointed in I Can’t Do It Alone. I saw Bebe Neuwirth on stage in 2000, and the dance moves for that number seemed so much more complicated and difficult than those in the movie – high kicks, cartwheels, etc. I remember watching it with my eyes bugging out, amazed that someone could perform those moves, live, without one misstep or error (that I could tell). I guess they had to tone it down a little for CZJ. Still entertaining, though.
Okay… the woman’s name is Christine BARANSKI.
She was Maryann Thorpe for five years on Cybill, and has graced many movies, television shows, as well as the stage.
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At least spell her name right.
Instead of starting a new Chicago thread, I thought it best to bump this one.
I watched it again last night. This is definately one film that gets better with repeated watching. I came away this time with the distinct impression that Queen Latifah should change careers and be a Jazz singer full-time.
I saw it again yesterday to take my mind off an extremely trying day, and it does indeed get better with every viewing. Queen Latifah is living in the wrong era because she would have been an extraordinary vaudeville jazz mama. I wish they hadn’t cut Mary Sunshine’s song because Christine Baranski has a wonderful singing voice (she played Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd in last year’s Sondheim Festival at the Kennedy Center.)
I’m looking forward to buying the DVD to see CZJ and QL sing Class.
I never had the opportunity to see the stage production. You’ve mentioned Class, which was not in the movie. What was the setup for this rather bawdry song?
*Class is sung in the scene when Mama Morton and Velma are listening to Roxie’s trial on the radio and Velam is incensed to find out Roxie has stolen her blue garter to wear on the stand. This leads to a speech about how standards have declined and then they start into the song.
Class is sung in the scene when Mama Morton and Velma are listening to Roxie’s trial on the radio and Velam is incensed to find out Roxie has stolen her blue garter to wear on the stand. This leads to a speech about how standards have declined and then they start into the song.
I saw Chicago this week and just loved it.
I knew nothing about the play (except one song) and had fully expected, with all the hype and high marks from everyone, to *just hate it. *.
Richard Gere was the only role that seemed lack luster. I kept on thinking that Kevin Kline or the late Robert Preston, would be better. He was fine and it is the first movie he has done that I’ve actually liked.
But I really liked Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Wow. Outstanding.
Your boyfriend sounds like my husband. We saw the movie for Valentine’s Day. I thought he had laughed throughout the movie, but he claims to have laughed only once. He also says that it “wasn’t too bad.” :rolleyes: Well, I liked it a whole lot and want the soundtrack. I’d like the DVD, too, I just don’t know when I’d get to watch it what with living with a Mr. Musical Hater of my own.
I absolutely loved it, especially Cell Block Tango, but I won’t go on, repeating what’s already been said.
I would like to say that I loved the line,
[spoiler]“the defense of your life.” If you don’t remember, it was in the courtroom when Billy was questioning Roxie. It was something along the lines of:
Roxie: And we both reached for the gun.
Billy: It was your life or his.
Roxie: Yes.
Billy: But you got it first.
Roxie: And I shot him!
Billy: The defense of your life!
(Roxie faints. The press goes crazy.)
Roxie: What a bulls-eye, huh?
I was surprised that I (a high-schooler) took a couple of seconds to get the double meaning, but my mother, roughly three times my age, didn’t get it until it was explained to her.[/spoiler]