Watched "Chicago the Movie" on cable. It was a nice adoption which exploited advantage of the forms of both motion picture and musical play. The cast was stunning for any film and Zellweger (Roxie Hart), Zeta-Jones (Velma Kelly) and Gere (Billy Flint) were more at home when playing the "movie" part of this film, as expected. Comparing to "Chicago the Musical", their on-stage singing and dancing were only good enough for themselves even though Zellweger and Zeta-Jones were way better than Gere and Reilly (Amos Hart). I liked the smooth transition between the movie part and the play part and how they purposefully blurred the line.
By the way, after watching the musical, someone was accusing the play for repeatedly using actors/actresses for small characters instead of hiring more people. To me that was totally a joke; it was exactly one of the pleasures I had when watching the play, that is, to see how painstakingly economic the playwright was trying to be in very limited space and time, and money too.
By the way, after watching the musical, someone was accusing the play for repeatedly using actors/actresses for small characters instead of hiring more people. To me that was totally a joke; it was exactly one of the pleasures I had when watching the play, that is, to see how painstakingly economic the playwright was trying to be in very limited space and time, and money too.
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