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Chicago is an American musical set in the jazz age. It is based on the reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins' 1926 play of the same name, which deals with the actual criminals and crimes that she reported on. The original Broadway production ran for 2 years after oepning in 1975 and was later staged in London's West End in 1977. The musical was then revived in the mid 1990s and has ran in theatre's across the globe ever since. The 2016 U.K. production of the musical was directed by Walter Bobbie with choreography by Ann Reinking. It was staged at Hall for Cornwall between the 2nd and 7th of May and featured a star studded cast including X-Factor star Sam Bailey as Mamma Morton and the former soap stars John Partridge and Hayley Tamaddon who played Billy Flynn and Roxie Hart.