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Act One

It is the mid-1920s, in Chicago Illinois. Velma Kelly, who, with her sister, performed a famous and popular double-act (until Velma is arrested for the murder of her sister and husband, who she found in bed together) welcomes the audience to the show (“All That Jazz�). Meanwhile, vaudeville wannabe Roxie Hart has sex with her lover, Fred Casely, who has not kept his word about introducing Roxie to a nightclub producer. In fury, Roxie shoots Fred dead.

When Roxie’s husband, Amos, returns home, she convinces him that Fred was an intruder whom she killed in self-defense, and begs Amos to take the blame. When Sergeant Fogarty arrives and begins the interrogation, Amos gamely does so (“Funny Honey�) until Fogarty shows him that Fred was no burglar at all -- in fact, Roxie was two-timing him. Upon Amos� reversal, Fogarty arrests Roxie and takes her to the Cook County Jail.

At the jail, Roxie is introduced to the six “merry murderesses� of the Cook County Jail -- June, Annie, Liz,