Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Chicago Musical tickets

Chicago the musical will be gracing the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre stage from June 15-20, 2010 for a total of 8 performances! Ticket King has tickets available for as low as $60.00 each in the balcony section. Chicago musical tickets will go fast at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, so buy your tickets today!

The musical Chicago is based on a play by the same name from 1926 written by a reporter named Maurine Dallas Watkins. Watkins wrote the play about actual crimes she had reported on. The story follows Velma Kelly, a vaudevillian, and Roxie Hart, who dreams of being famous. Velma kills her husband and sister when she finds them in bed together and goes to jail. Roxie kills murders her lover. The term "celebrity criminal" is what ensues when lawyer Billy Flynn changes the 'storyline' and gets Velma, and later, Roxie into the newspaper headlines after he "Razzle Dazzle"'s the press and community.

The Broadway rendition of the play opened in 1975, after many years of asking Watkins for the rights to make the play a musical. As Watkins had grown older, she became a born-again Christian and thought the play glamorized the style of living that the play portrays. After Watkins passed away in 1969, the rights were sold to Richard Fryer, Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse. John Kander wrote the music for the Broadway version and Fred Ebb wrote the lyrics.

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has played Roxie Hart in the London production, and I believe she reprised her role as Roxie for the Chicago production. In past productions, such names as Jerry Springer and David Hasselhoff have played Billy Flynn.

In 2002, Chicago was made into a major motion picture with a star cast: Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah and John C Reilly. I have never seen the musical, but I have seen the movie, and LOVE IT! The songs are very fun to listen to, and the story is very intriguing-done in a vaudeville way. I am a huge fan of musicals-so it doesn't surprise me that I liked this movie. The movie is filmed in a old-fashioned movie way, here it's basically like watching it on a stage. I would see Chicago the musical in a heart beat if it came to a city near me! If you're a big fan (or small fan) of musicals, you should definitely put Chicago on your MUST SEE Musical list! Buy your Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Chicago musical tickets now!

Razzle Dazzle lyrics

BAILIFF(Spoken)
Mr. Flynn, his honor is here

BILLY(Spoken)
Thank you. Just a moment.
You ready?

ROXIE(Spoken)
Oh Billy, I'm scared.

BILLY(Spoken)
Roxie, you got nothing to worry about.
It's all a circus, kid. A three ring circus.
These trials- the wholeworld- all show business.
But kid, you're working with a star, the biggest!

(Singing)
Give 'em the old razzle dazzle
Razzle Dazzle 'em
Give 'em an act with lots of flash in it
And the reaction will be passionate
Give 'em the old hocus pocus
Bead and feather 'em
How can they see with sequins in their eyes?

What if your hinges all are rusting?
What if, in fact, you're just disgusting?

Razzle dazzle 'em
And they;ll never catch wise!

Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle

BILLY AND COMPANY
Razzle dazzle 'em
Give 'em a show that's so splendiferous

BILLY
Row after row will crow vociferous

BILLY AND COMPANY
Give 'em the old flim flam flummox
Fool and fracture 'em

BILLY
How can they hear the truth above the roar?

BILLY AND COMPANY
Throw 'em a fake and a finagle
They'll never know you're just a bagel,

BILLY
Razzle dazzle 'em
And they'll beg you for more!

BILLY AND COMPANY
Give 'em the old double whammy
Daze and dizzy 'em
Back since the days of old Methuselah
Everyone loves the big bambooz-a-ler

Give 'em the old three ring circus
Stun and stagger 'em
When you're in trouble, go into your dance

Though you are stiffer than a girder
They'll let you get away with murder
Razzle dazzle 'em
And you've got a romance

COMPANY(The same time as BILLY's)
Give 'em the old
Razzle Dazzle

BILLY
Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle
Razzle dazzle 'em
Show 'em the first rate sorceror you are
Long as you keep 'em way off balance
How can they spot you've got no talent
Razzle Dazzle 'em

BILLY AND COMPANY
Razzle Dazzle 'em
Razzle Dazzle 'em

And they'll make you a star!

Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Xanadu tickets

The still new musical Xanadu is playing at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre in Orlando for 8 performances! Xanadu tickets are available for April 27 through May 2 at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre.

Xanadu the musical opened on Broadway in 2007. Xanadu was nominated for two Tony Awards, Best Musical and Best Book, but, sadly, did not win. Xanadu did win the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical as well as a Drama Desk Award for Best Book. The U.S. Tour of Xanadu began in December of 2009 and will be touring the Nation! Orlando is one of the lucky cities to be selected to have the Xanadu tour come to town! Don't delay in buying your Xanadu tickets!

Xanadu is based on the movie of the same name, that was a cult classic in 1980, starring Olivia Newton-John, just two years after her huge hit Grease. Xanadu is the second movie of Olivia Newton-John to be turned into a popular musical!

Xanadu runs for a mere 90 minutes, which is short for a musical, and does not have an intermission.

Watching Xanadu at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center you'll see the story of a Greek muse who comes down from Olympus to Venice Beach, California, circa 1980, to inspire an artist to create the first Roller Disco! Drama, laughter and adventure ensue when the muse falls in love with the mortal, which is not allowed! Xanadu includes all the great songs from the movie, including "Magic," "I'm Alive," and of course, "Xanadu."

Ticket King has tickets for just $65 each in the Balcony for the Saturday May 1st evening performance! These tickets won't last long! Be sure to purchase your Bob Carr Xanadu tickets today!


Xanadu lyrics:

A place where nobody dared to go
The love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu

And now
Open your eyes and see
What we have made is real
We are in Xanadu

A million lights are dancing
And there you are
A shooting star
An everlasting world
And you're here with me
Eternally

Xanadu, Xanadu,
(now we are here)
In Xanadu
Xanadu, Xanadu,
(now we are here)
In Xanadu

Xanadu, your neon lights will shine
For you, Xanadu

The love
The echoes of long ago
You needed the world to know
They are in Xanadu

The dream
That came through a million years
That lived on through all the tears
It came to Xanadu

A million lights are dancing
And there you are
A shooting star
An everlasting world
And you're here with me
Eternally

Xanadu, Xanadu,
(now we are here)
In Xanadu
Xanadu, Xanadu,
(now we are here)
In Xanadu

Now that I'm here
Now that you're near in Xanadu
Now that I'm here
Now that you're near in Xanadu
Xanadu...