Theatre Review – Chicago (Her Majesty’s Theatre VIC) – 4 Stars
The brass band’s on stage, the lingerie-clad women and tight-panted men start dancing, and then Caroline O’Connor and Sharon Millerchip sing. This is true musical theatre. The characters fit perfectly with Millerchip’s ‘Roxie’ seeming to take lessons from O’Connor’s ‘Velma’ in both show business sleaze and jazz vocals. The choreography and staging are simple but perfect for the show, and the relatively small chorus works twice as hard and easily fills the stage. There’s also pleasant surprises from Craig McLachlan as ‘Billy Flynn’ and Gina Riley as ‘Mama Morton’, both of whom you’d assume must have never left the stage.
