CHICAGO opens at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse on Tuesday April 29, 2008 at 8pm. Tickets are currently only available to patrons who purchase season ticket packages. Season packages will go on sale to the public on Monday, July 23, 2007. Patrons can call the Bobcat Ticket Office at 406-994-2287 or toll free at 800-808-5940. They can also visit the ticket office Monday - Friday 8am-5pm.

If tickets are still available, information on purchasing tickets to individual shows will be announced after all season subscriptions are sold approximately 5 weeks prior to the show date.

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Based on the 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins (which was based on real events), Chicago is, as we are told in the show's opening lines, "a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery -- all the things we hold near and dear to our hearts." The story revolves around Roxie Hart, a nightclub dancer who dreams of starring in vaudeville. She kills her lover, nightclub regular Fred Casely, and convinces her husband to front the money to hire Chicago's shrewdest defense lawyer. The lawyer, Billy Flynn, turns her crime of passion into celebrity headlines, and Roxie becomes the toast of Chicago -- until other crimes pull the limelight away from her.

Chicago was created by John Kander and Fred Ebb (known for their hit musicals Cabaret and Kiss of the Spider Woman) and Bob Fosse (famous for his innovative staging and choreography). It first opened on Broadway on June 3, 1975 and ran 898 performances. Its current Broadway revival (on which this tour is based) opened November 14, 1996, and is still running.

In 2002 Miramax Films took the Tony Award winning musical to the big screen. Starring Renee Zellweger as Roxie Hart, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelley and Richard Gere as Billy Flynn. The box office success and subsequent multiple Oscar wins including Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Best Picture lead to the rebirth of the musical and touring success.

Chicago is presented by Troika Entertainment, which is celebrating over twenty years of producing musical theatre throughout North America, Europe and Asia.