Chicago at 50: A musical that never loses its bite

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Jailhouse rock: Tankiso Mamabolo as Matron Mama Morton and Samantha Peo as Velma Kelly in Chicago. Dazzling: Kiruna-Lind Devar as Roxie Hart in Chicago at the Artscape Opera House in Cape TownI didn’t realise until now just how interactive Chicago was. The shock for anyone who shows up to see Chicago for the first time is how clever and sophisticated it is. It is a musical about bad people doing despicable things and by some ludicrous moral logic we applaud when they get away with murder. Chicago is on at Artscape Opera House in Cape Town until 28 September and Montecasino’s Teatro in Johannesburg from 3 October.