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Chicago: First Draft, Second Act by Peter Filichia

Given that this is the week that Chicago passes A Chorus Line in number of performances (6,138-plus), I thought I’d see how far the Kander-Ebb-Fosse musical has come in the last 38 years. So I took a look at the show’s first draft, dated August 3, 1973. On Wednesday, I detailed some of the differences that are in this script and what wound up on stage. There are so many that I had to stop after Act One. T…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AM on August 26, 2011

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