Student actors from Prairie High School will bring a little 1920s flair to center stage with a production of “Chicago.”
Prairie High School is bringing the Roaring Twenties to its auditorium starting this weekend as the school’s drama club is set to premiere “Chicago” Oct. 26.
The musical, which received an Oscar-winning film adaptation in 2002, tells the story of chorus girl Roxie Hart who murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap. Amos learns of Roxie’s deceit and turns on her, leading her to be convicted and sent to death row. In prison Roxie and another “Merry Murderess,” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the American Dream: fame, fortune, and acquittal.
A release from PHS noted that the play has been adapted to be content-appropriate and flexible for high school students, drawing from the original 1975 source material.
