{"id":56358,"date":"2024-06-27T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=56358"},"modified":"2024-06-27T14:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:43:21","slug":"chicago-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/chicago-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second weekend of performances for \u201cthe most exciting musical of its generation\u201d (<em>The Times<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>First seen in 1975 and still an all-round stunner, it is based on a 1926 play by one-time reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins and is built around actual crimes on which she reported; the book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse paints a tantalising tale of passion, murder, greed, betrayal, and redemption through the journey of two fiercely competitive women \u2013 aspiring jazz performer Roxie Hart and former vaudevillian (and double-murderess) Velma Kelly. John Kander and Fred Ebb were responsible for the score, with each song modelled on a traditional vaudeville number or a vaudeville performer \u2013 a format that helped to make explicit the show&#8217;s comparison between justice, showbiz, and contemporary society.<\/p>\n<p>Performances:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">19 September 7pm<br \/>\n20 September 7pm<br \/>\n21 September 1pm<br \/>\n21 September 7pm<br \/>\n22 September 1pm<br \/>\n22 September 6pm<\/p>\n<p>There are the door-open times; we&#8217;d guess the actual performances start an hour later. Ticket prices are higher for weekend shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The second weekend of performances for \u201cthe most exciting musical of its generation\u201d (The Times). First seen in 1975 and still an all-round stunner, it is based on a 1926 play by one-time reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins and is built <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/chicago-2\/\" title=\"Chicago\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56360,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[91],"class_list":["post-56358","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-musical","cat_musical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/56358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/56358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56358"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=56358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}