Chicago

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	Taye Diggs	Bandleader
	Cliff Saunders	Stage Manager
	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Velma Kelly
	Renée Zellweger	Roxie Hart
	Dominic West	Fred Casely
	Jayne Eastwood	Mrs. Borusewicz
	Bruce Beaton	Police Photographer
	Roman Podhora	Sergeant Fogarty
	John C. Reilly	Amos Hart
	Colm Feore	Harrison
	Rob Smith	Newspaper Photographer
	Sean Wayne DOYLE	Reporter
	Steve Behal	Prison Clerk
	Robbie Rox	Prison Guard
	Chita Rivera	Nickie
	Queen Latifah	Matron Mama Morton
	Susan Misner	Liz
	Denise Faye	Annie
	Deidre Goodwin	June
	Ekaterina Chtchelkanova	Hunyak
	Mya Harrison	Mona
	Joey Pizzi	Bernie
	Scott Wise	Ezekial Young
	Ken Ard	Wilbur
	Marc Calamia	Hunyak's Husband

Crew View all

Director	Rob Marshall
Writer	Bill Condon, Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, Maurine Dallas Watkins
Producer	Jennifer Berman, Don Carmody, Sam Crothers, John M. Eckert, Julie Goldstein, Neil Meron, Meryl Poster, Martin Richards, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Craig Zadan
Photography	Dion Beebe

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Story Synopsis:
Ladies and gentlemen, I now present to you an Oscar®-winning act of passion, desperation, murder, and “All That Jazz.” Five-Six-Seven-Eight! It’s Chicago, 1929, and aspiring performer Roxie Hart (Zellweger) dreams of singing and dancing her way out of her ho-hum life. But her wish of following in the golden footsteps of sensational-but now incarcerated-vaudeville performer Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones) lands her in Matron Mama Morton’s (Latifah) prison on murder charges. Roxie finds hope in the way of legendary lawyer Billy Flynn (Gere). He agrees to take Roxie’s case for an immodest fee. And when Roxie’s career explodes, to the chagrin of her mentor, Miss Kelly has a few surprises left for her own second act.... Winner of six Oscars, including Best Picture. (Suzanne Hodges)

DVD Picture:
The anamorphically enhanced 1.85:1 DVD exhibits a picture that is sharp and detailed, with some slight softly focused scenes to help set the period of the film. Many of the dim scenes in the prison end up providing superb contrast for the neon lights of the performances. The red and blue lighting provides a glow that jazzes up the musical numbers. Courtroom scenes have a more understated appearance, with neutral browns that visually contrast what’s going on in Roxie’s imagination. The black-and-white scenes are given a grainy texture wth scratches and artifacts to symbolize newsreels from the ’20s and ’30s. While there is edge enhancement apparent, its distraction is limited. Occasional pixelization causes a slight “digital” texture to an otherwise superb picture. (Suzanne Hodges)

Soundtrack:
The 5.1 soundtrack presentations feature fantastic fidelity. As expected, the music has been wonderfully recorded and has a nicely enveloping, engaging soundstage presence. However, for those who are expecting aggressive, energetic soundstaging, the listening experience might be a little underwhelming. Nonetheless, the dimensional presence, especially across the screen channels, is panoramic and abundantly immersive. For the musical numbers, there’s usually a balance toward the screen channels, with the surrounds providing for peripheral ambience. In the absence of the music, atmospheric effects usually are subtly spread across the screen, with very modest depth into the surrounds. There’s also a reasonably palpable low-end presence, though the LFE channel isn’t really a factor. The dialogue sounds particularly natural in spatial integration and tonality. The DTS® Digital Surround™ audio version has slightly more “body” with deep bass and exhibits a little more seamlessness and coherence with soundstaging. (Perry Sun)

This Disc Contains The Following WSR-Rated Superb Qualities:
Reference Quality
Superb Music Score Recording Quality

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