STAGE TUBE: 'Chats' Parody Borrows from CHICAGO

By: Jan. 30, 2013
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What has happened to social media and the way we communicate? The parady "Chats" is here to answer that very question. They poke fun at the grammar used on social site such as Facebook on Twitter. They even sing about why people no longer have phone conversations anymore and how uncreative poeple are when it comes to communicating with one another.

Check it out below!

With a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, Chicago is now the No. 1 longest-running American musical in Broadway history. CHICAGO is the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Recording. Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, Chicago is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her. Desperate to avoid conviction, she dupes the public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago's slickest criminal lawyer to transform her malicious crime into a barrage of sensational headlines, the likes of which might just as easily be ripped from today's tabloids.



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