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(in order of appearance)

Narrator...................................................................................... Kelly Gilmore

Roxie Hart, “the prettiest woman ever charged
   with murder in Chicago”........................................................... Jenny Tucker*

Fred Casely, “the other man”..................................................... Mark Hofmaier*

Charlie E. Murdock, police sergeant.................................................... Eve Packer

Amos Hart, Roxie’s “meal-ticket husband”..................................... James Harter*

Jake Callahan, reporter on The Morning Gazette........................ Eric M. Moreland*

Martin S. Harrison, Assistant State’s Attorney.................................. Roger Rifkin*

Babe Maloney, photographer on The Morning Gazette............................ Jane Marx

Mrs. Morton, matron at Cook County Jail...................................... Sheila Dehner*

Velma, “stylish divorcée,” inmate of Murderess Row......................Susanna Frazer*

Liz, “God’s messenger,” inmate of Murderess Row................................ Eve Packer

Billy Flynn, Roxie’s attorney—“best in the city, next to Halliday”..... Mark Hofmaier*

Mary Sunshine, sob sister on The Evening Star........................................... Kubbi*

Moonshine Maggie, “hunyak,” inmate of Murderess Row........... Susanne Brinnitzer

Go-to-Hell Kitty, “the Tiger Girl,” inmate of Murderess Row................ Kelly Gilmore

Judge Canton............................................................................ Sheila Dehner*

Machine-Gun Rosie, “the Cicero Kid,”
   inmate of Murderess Row.................................................. Susanne Brinnitzer

Court Clerk................................................................................. Kelly Gilmore

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

TIME and PLACE: Chicago, 1926

PROLOGUE: 6:58 P.M., April the third. The bedroom of Roxie and Amos Hart.

ACT I: Sunday afternoon, two days later. Women’s Ward of the Cook County Jail, Chicago.

ACT II: One month later—early afternoon of May the third.

ACT III:

Scene 1: Seven weeks later, a morning in June. The prisoner’s room before Court opens.

Scene 2: Afternoon same day. Judge Canton’s Court, Criminal Court Building, Chicago.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

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