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** Mary Sunshine is the only character in a position of power who wields her influence for altruistic, if naive, purposes. She spins criminal's stories to portray them in a positive light because she believes there's a bit of good in everyone. This makes her Billy's most reliable (and unknowing) pawn in getting Roxie acquitted.
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* DeathByWomanScorned: A recurring theme in "Cell Block Tango" -- Velma killed her husband and his lover (her own sister), Annie poisoned her boyfriend after finding out he was already married to six other women (one of those Mormons, you know), and Mona killed her boyfriend after finding out he had three other girlfriends and a boyfriend.
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* DeathByWomanScorned: A recurring theme in "Cell Block Tango" -- Velma killed her husband and his lover (her own sister), Annie poisoned her boyfriend after finding out he was already married to six other women (one of those Mormons, you know), and Mona killed her boyfriend after finding out he had three other girlfriends and a boyfriend. Later Kitty Baxter kills her boyfriend and the ''two'' women she discovered in bed with him.
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* FakeFaint: In "When Velma Takes the Stand", Velma and Billy rehearse what she'll do to gain the jury's sympathy when she's called to testify at her trial, which includes pretending to faint.
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* BilingualBonus: The Hungarian is left untranslated. For those wondering, her monologue in "Cell Block Tango" translates to, "What am I doing here? They say my famous lover held down my husband and I chopped his head off. But it's not true. I am innocent. I don't know why Uncle Sam says I did it. I tried to explain at the police station but they didn't understand."
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* BilingualBonus: The Hungarian is left untranslated. For those wondering, her Hunyak's monologue in "Cell Block Tango" translates to, "What am I doing here? They say my famous lover held down my husband and I chopped his head off. But it's not true. I am innocent. I don't know why Uncle Sam says I did it. I tried to explain at the police station but they didn't understand."
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* AssholeVictim: Invoked; in "Cell Block Tango" the first proper lyric is "He had it comin'!" although at least some of them are extreme cases of DisproportionateRetribution.
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* AssholeVictim: Invoked; in "Cell Block Tango" the first proper lyric is "He had it comin'!" although at least some of them are extreme cases of DisproportionateRetribution.DisproportionateRetribution, and, of course, Hunyak is completely innocent, but the language barrier prevents anyone from knowing this.
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* ManslaughterProvocation: "Cell Block Tango" basically consists of them. How justified you are supposed to consider the cases, and how sincere the murderers are is... debatable.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "When You're Good To Mama" is just ''chock'' full of {{Double Entendre}}s.
-->Let's all stroke together\\
Like the Princeton crew\\
When you're strokin' Mama\\
Mama's strokin' you!
-->Let's all stroke together\\
Like the Princeton crew\\
When you're strokin' Mama\\
Mama's strokin' you!
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "When You're Good To Mama" GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is just ''chock'' full of {{Double Entendre}}s.
-->Let's all stroke together\\
Likeon-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the Princeton crew\\
When you're strokin' Mama\\
Mama's strokin' you!future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
-->Let's all stroke together\\
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Mama's strokin' you!
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* AntiVillain: June, maybe. Whether or not she was indeed "screwin' the milkman" (which we have no way of knowing), her husband Wilbur still comes off abusive and threatening toward her in her account, which makes it a little harder to blame her for offing him compared to, say, Liz shooting her boyfriend in the head for ''popping gum''. June is notably relieved later on when Mama Morton reminds her that Wilbur is dead ''because June killed him'', which, BlackComedy or not, does square with the possibility of June as an abused wife who finally snapped.
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* AntiVillain: June, maybe. Whether or not she was indeed "screwin' the milkman" (which we have no way of knowing), her husband Wilbur still comes off abusive and threatening toward her in her account, which makes it a little harder to blame her for offing him compared to, say, Liz shooting her boyfriend in the head for ''popping gum''. June is notably relieved later on when Mama Morton reminds her that Wilbur is dead ''because June killed him'', which, BlackComedy or not, does square with the possibility of June as an abused wife who finally snapped.snapped -- or that she's just an amoral woman who slept with another man and got caught by an understandably upset husband. UnreliableNarrator, remember.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The public. Roxie gets off, but another scandal wrecks her attempt at fame. (That is, until she does a scandalous double act with Velma.)
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* MythologyGag: Velma [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9_AvEQL9As makes her entrance in the 1996 revival]] in the exact same way [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUTEhEPONgc as the snake did]] in ''Film/TheLittlePrince''. She really is a snake in the grass!
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* MythologyGag: Velma [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9_AvEQL9As makes her entrance in the 1996 revival]] in the exact same way [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUTEhEPONgc as the snake did]] in ''Film/TheLittlePrince''.''Literature/TheLittlePrince''. She really is a snake in the grass!
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* MythologyGag: Velma [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9_AvEQL9As makes her entrance in the 1996 revival]] in the exact same way [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUTEhEPONgc as the snake did]] in ''Film/TheLittlePrince''. She really is a snake in the grass!
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* PragmaticVillainy: Matron Mama Morton smuggles luxury goods like hair products and cigarettes into the prison. Why? [[MoneyDearBoy The women there pay her to do it.]] She's making a fortune, ethics be damned.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Matron Mama Morton smuggles luxury goods like hair products and cigarettes into the prison. Why? [[MoneyDearBoy [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney The women there pay her to do it.]] She's making a fortune, ethics be damned.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Matron Mama Morton smuggles luxury goods like hair products and cigarettes into the prison. Why? [[MoneyDearBoy The women there pay her to do it.]] She's making a fortune, ethics be damned.
** Similarly, Billy Flynn is also only in the game for cash--he'll play any angle, go to any length, and take any risk if it means a bigger payday for himself.
** Similarly, Billy Flynn is also only in the game for cash--he'll play any angle, go to any length, and take any risk if it means a bigger payday for himself.
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* AntiVillian: June, maybe. Whether or not she was indeed "screwin' the milkman" (which we have no way of knowing), her husband Wilbur still comes off abusive and threatening toward her in her account, which makes it a little harder to blame her for offing him compared to, say, Liz shooting her boyfriend in the head for ''popping gum''. June is notably relieved later on when Mama Morton reminds her that Wilbur is dead ''because June killed him'', which, BlackComedy or not, does square with the possibility of June as an abused wife who finally snapped.
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* AntiVillian: AntiVillain: June, maybe. Whether or not she was indeed "screwin' the milkman" (which we have no way of knowing), her husband Wilbur still comes off abusive and threatening toward her in her account, which makes it a little harder to blame her for offing him compared to, say, Liz shooting her boyfriend in the head for ''popping gum''. June is notably relieved later on when Mama Morton reminds her that Wilbur is dead ''because June killed him'', which, BlackComedy or not, does square with the possibility of June as an abused wife who finally snapped.
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** Billy Flynn, in some productions.
* AmoralAttorney: Billy Flynn, who manages to acquit two murderers that we know of and likely dozens that we don't. He also brags about sleeping with clients during his introduction.
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** Billy Flynn, Flynn. Despite introducing himself as a romantic ladies' man, it's worth noting that ''everything else'' in some productions.
the song is a lie, he never actually touches his showgirl chorus or alludes to any interest in women outside of said song, and is contemptuously amused when Roxie offers to sleep with him to lower her legal fees, telling her she's barking up the wrong tree. Not all productions play this up, but it's standard in the replica version based on the 1996 Broadway revival (ie, most professional productions since then).
* AmoralAttorney: Billy Flynn, who manages to acquit two murderers that we know of and likely dozens that we don't. He also brags about sleeping with clients during hisintroduction.introduction- though in a strange twist, even ''that'' might be a lie (see AmbiguouslyGay above).
* AntiVillian: June, maybe. Whether or not she was indeed "screwin' the milkman" (which we have no way of knowing), her husband Wilbur still comes off abusive and threatening toward her in her account, which makes it a little harder to blame her for offing him compared to, say, Liz shooting her boyfriend in the head for ''popping gum''. June is notably relieved later on when Mama Morton reminds her that Wilbur is dead ''because June killed him'', which, BlackComedy or not, does square with the possibility of June as an abused wife who finally snapped.
* AmoralAttorney: Billy Flynn, who manages to acquit two murderers that we know of and likely dozens that we don't. He also brags about sleeping with clients during his
* AntiVillian: June, maybe. Whether or not she was indeed "screwin' the milkman" (which we have no way of knowing), her husband Wilbur still comes off abusive and threatening toward her in her account, which makes it a little harder to blame her for offing him compared to, say, Liz shooting her boyfriend in the head for ''popping gum''. June is notably relieved later on when Mama Morton reminds her that Wilbur is dead ''because June killed him'', which, BlackComedy or not, does square with the possibility of June as an abused wife who finally snapped.
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* CheatingWithTheMilkman: Mentioned in one of the spoken passages of "Cell Block Tango":
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* CheatingWithTheMilkman: Mentioned in one of the spoken passages of "Cell Block Tango":Tango", though it's ambiguous whether or not the woman in question really was:
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* FieryRedhead: Roxie.
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* FieryRedhead: Roxie.Roxie, officially. In practice (especially due to StuntCasting), the line referring to her as a "cute redheaded chorine" is updated to match the hair color of the actress at that performance.
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** "All I Care About Is Love" for Billy.
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** "All I Care About Is Love" for Billy. Played with in that most- if not all- of what he professes about himself in it is BlatantLies.
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* OnlySaneMan: On Murderess Row, only the matron has all of her marbles together as Velma and Roxie bicker and the other inmates smoke and drink. Mama has to remind June that her husband is dead, since June murdered him. June gets a relieved expression when she remembers.
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* OnlySaneMan: On Murderess Row, only the matron has all of her marbles together as Velma and Roxie bicker and the other inmates smoke and drink. Mama has to remind June that her husband is dead, since June murdered him. June gets a relieved expression when she remembers.remembers (particularly since, if she was telling the truth, he was abusive).
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Amos and Roxie. And he knows it too.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Amos and Roxie.Roxie, most of the time. And he knows it too.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Roxie's murder victim was the man with whom she was cheating on her husband. The grounds for Velma, Annie, and Mona's homicides.
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* HardTruthAesop: If you have enough money and influence with the public, you can literally get away with murder. It doesn't help that Roxie and Velma were based on two real women that used a powerful lawyer and public opinion to reach for their acquittals.
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* ContraltoOfDanger: Both Velma and Mama qualify as this.
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Dewicking per TRS decision.
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* BiTheWay: "He was always trying to find himself. He'd go out every night looking for himself, and on the way he found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary... and Irving!"
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While Billy is definitely a villain who doesn't care if his clients are innocent or guilty, he tells Roxie that she can't sail on her fame when there's a real chance she can get convicted so she should play by his rules.
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* VillainSong:VillainSong: Considering how nearly everyone in the cast (aside from Amos and Mary) can be deemed a villain, there’s plenty to go around.
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* BubblegumPopping: Liz killed her boyfriend Bernie for doing this.
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-->'''Roxie:''' And the audience loves me. And I love them for loving me and they love me for loving them. And we love each other. 'Cause none of us got enough ''love'' in our childhoods...
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-->'''Roxie:''' And the audience loves me. And I love them for loving me and they love me for loving them. And we love each other. 'Cause none of us got enough ''love'' in our childhoods...\\
'''Chorus Boy:''' That's too bad!\\
'''Roxie:''' And that's show biz, kid!
'''Chorus Boy:''' That's too bad!\\
'''Roxie:''' And that's show biz, kid!
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* FifteenMinutesOfFame: Velma's own fame from her murder trial is usurped by Roxie's. Roxie has to fake a pregnancy to avoid her own trial being upstaged. And the second her trial is over, Roxie is forgotten for the next big crime.
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Just to add that Fosse also had co-writing credit on the book (with Fred Ebb)
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''Chicago'', a musical originally choreographed and directed by the legendary Creator/BobFosse in 1975, is the story of Roxie Hart, a wannabe cabaret star in 1920s Chicago. She sleeps around unknown to her husband, Amos, but has a falling-out with one of her lovers, shoots him and is arrested for murder. In prison, she develops a rivalry with the star Velma Kelly, who killed her own husband and sister.
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''Chicago'', a musical originally choreographed and choreographed, directed and co-written by the legendary Creator/BobFosse in 1975, is the story of Roxie Hart, a wannabe cabaret star in 1920s Chicago. She sleeps around unknown to her husband, Amos, but has a falling-out with one of her lovers, shoots him and is arrested for murder. In prison, she develops a rivalry with the star Velma Kelly, who killed her own husband and sister.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beulah_Annan Beulah Annan]].
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* AFamilyAffair: Velma killed her husband and twin sister in a blind fury when catching them having sex after leaving for just a few minutes.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The finale with Velma and Roxy.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The finale with Velma and Roxy.Roxie.
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* IronicHell: In the end, it's implied while Roxy and Velma despise each other, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork they depend on each other to be rich and famous]].
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* IronicHell: In the end, it's implied while Roxy Roxie and Velma despise each other, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork they depend on each other to be rich and famous]].
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* {{Homage}}: Ann Reinking's performance in the 1995 revival had her imitating Gwen Virdon's speaking style.
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* {{Homage}}: Ann Reinking's performance in the 1995 revival had her imitating Gwen Virdon's Verdon's speaking style.
