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Capturing the eye of her edi- graph asked reporter turned playwright tors, she was quickly assigned a beat cover- Maurine Watkins to talk about how she ing Chicago’s murders. Her popular, colorful came up with the story for the original reports won her assignments and more ink. Iplay Chicago. She responded, “I’ll tell you. When asked about it, she told the New But don’t you love a good murder?” York Telegraph, “I got to the point where I Watkins nabbed her first job as a reporter prayed for murders. Not that you have to pray with the Chicago Tribune immediately after very long in vain in Chicago. But I prayed for college earning more than double a starting good murders, and then I prayed that I would Don’t you love a good murder? 83 years, 23 countries, & more than 60 awards say yes. Brenda Braxton & Company in “All That Jazz” Photo: © Paul Kolnik be sent out on murders. When I realized I was getting a murder-story complex, I quit. AwArds But I doubt if I’ll ever outgrow my love for ♦ ® including murders. That’s why I wrote this play about 6 Tony Awards them.” Best Musical revival With a series of fascinating stories about ♦ 5 drama desk Awards powerful, beautiful murderesses given to her ♦ from the pages of real life, she did what any 5 Outer Critics’ Circle Awards good writer does, she penned them into an ♦ 1 Grammy Award for edge-of-your-seat story, the story of Chicago. Original Cast recording Almost fifty years after its premiere, ♦ Fred Ebb, John Kander, and Bob Fosse took 18 International theater awards Watkins fascinating play and turned it into Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville. The show opened on Broadway in June of 1975 and ONe WEEK ONLy ran for more than 900 days garnering mixed Chicago comes to the Fisher Theatre for reviews. The musical was nominated for one week only March 8–13, 2011. 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[email protected] starring CONSTANTINE MAROULIS NICK CORDERO REBECCA FAULKENBERRY PATRICK LEWALLEN TERESA STANLEY CASEY TUMA BRET TUOMI TRAVIS WALKER and MiG AYESA ANGELA BRYDON JOEY CALVERI DANIEL LUIS DOMENECH LINDSAY JANISSE SEAN JENNESS HOLLY LAURENT LAURALYN McCLELLAND RASHAD NAYLOR JOSH SASSANELLA ERIKA SHANNON set design costume design lighting design sound design projection design BEOWULF BORITT GREGORY GALE JASON LYONS PETER HYLENSKI ZAK BOROVAY hair/wig design make-up design casting production stage manager TOM WATSON ANGELINA AVALLONE TELSEY + COMPANY KENNETH J. DAVIS associate choreographer associate director associate producer ROBERT TATAD ADAM JOHN HUNTER DAVID GIBBS general management tour press and marketing technical supervisor FRANKEL GREEN THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT ANITA DLONIAK PHOENIX ENTERTAINMENT GRANT A. RICE / LESLIE LEDBETTER & ASSOCIATES, INC. music director music coordinator original arrangements BRANDON ETHRIDGE JOHN MILLER DAVID GIBBS musical supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by ETHAN POPP choreographed by Photos by vincent Dixon KELLY DEVINE directed by Fisher Theatre - February 1-13 KRISTIN HANGGI Rock of Ages patrons: get tickets now before public sale on fri., nov. 19 Exclusive Tour Booking—The Road Company—165 West 46th Street, Suite 1101, New York, NY 10036 Use code HoMe at the fisher Theatre box office, Ticketmaster.com & 800-982-2787 groups of 12+: [email protected] or 313-871-1132 Info: 313-872-1000 & BroadwayInDetroit.com • Broadway in Detroit sponsored by your southeastern Michigan Lincoln dealers • DriveLM.com 9 CAST (in order of appearance) Lonny ...........................................................................................................