Track Listing
1. Overture/And All That Jazz - Zeta-Jones, Catherine & Renee Zellweger/Taye Diggs
2. Funny Honey - Zellweger, Renee & John C. Reilly/Colm Feore/Taye Diggs
3. When You're Good To Mama - Queen Latifah & Taye Diggs
4. Cell Block Tango
5. All I Care About - Gere, Richard & Renee Zellweger
6. We Both Reached For The Gun
7. Roxie - Zellweger, Renee
8. I Can't Do It Alone - Zeta-Jones, Catherine & Taye Diggs
9. Mister Cellophane - Reilly, John C.
10. Razzle Dazzle - Gere, Richard
11. Class - Zeta-Jones, Catherine & Queen Latifah
12. Nowadays (Roxie) - Zellweger, Renee & Taye Diggs
13. Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag - Zellweger, Renee & Catherine Zeta-Jones/Taye Diggs
14. I Move On - Zeta-Jones, Catherine & Renee Zellweger
15. After Midnight - Elfman, Danny
16. Roxie's Suite - Elfman, Danny
17. Cell Block Tango (He Had It Comin') - Queen Latifah & Lil' Kim/Macy Gray
18. Love Is A Crime - Anastacia
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Randy Spendlove, Rick Wake | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services |
Album Notes
Music and lyrics written by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Original score composed by Danny Elfman.CHICAGO has a long and varied history; it began life in the '20s as a play about a showgirl named Roxie Hart, the character whose name was used as the title for a '40s movie inspired by the show. In the '70s, Broadway composers Kander and Ebb (CABARET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) wrote the songs for a musical version focusing on the '20s-jazz angle and capitalizing on the murder-and-sex theme, and Bob Fosse fleshed the whole thing out to great success. The late-'90s Broadway revival of the show was even more successful and gave rise to a film version featuring Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, movie stars not known for singing.The film turned out to be a huge hit, and the actors handle their vocal chores admirably, as borne out on this soundtrack disc. Zeta-Jones and Zellweger handle their respective roles of vamp and showgirl well. While Gere will probably never have a solo singing career, his quirky, character-filled singing is perfectly in the style of many male vocalists of the '20s and works just fine. The songs are full of surprise left hooks and catchy refrains, melding early jazz with showtunes in a seamless manner. While the contemporary pop tunes by Anastacia and Queen Latifah tacked onto the end mar one's suspension of disbelief somewhat, this is nevertheless an impressive and entertaining affair.
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