In the movie Chicago, two ladies named Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart are in jail for murdering their spouses. They both use a famous lawyer named Billy Flynn who has never lost a case. Even though both are actually guilty of murder, both claim vehemently to be innocent of any crime. Throughout the movie, the two girls butt heads due to the fact that Velma was famous for her incident but was slowly being shown up by Roxie. In a stunning turn of events, Billy Flynn wins Roxie's case by creating fake evidence that Velma gets off by bringing forward, thereby freeing both of them at once. Once the case ends, a woman murders a man right outside the courthouse, and the two women, practically idolized by papers and magazines, are forgotten.
Chicago is one of my favorite musicals, with awesome songs and great dancing, it also finds an interesting way to make each songs both diegetic and non-diegetic, which isn't easy to do. In the end, Chicago is sort of an allegory of criminals being made into celebrities, and what better setting for this is in Chicago in the era of Al Capone?
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