Chicago is now booking to 31 Aug 2014

The Tony Award winning musical Chicago has extended its booking period at the Ambassador Theatre and is now selling tickets through to 31 Aug 2014.

Now celebrating seventeen years on the Great White Way, Chicago is the second longest-running production currently playing on Broadway, as well as Broadway's longest-running musical revival, and the sixth longest running show in Broadway history.

The show opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on 14 Nov 1996, following previews from 23 Oct 1996. It moved to its current home at the Ambassador Theatre on the 29 Jan 2003.

Chicago follows not your usual housewife, Roxie Hart, who gains dubious notoriety when she kills her boyfriend, invents her defence and manipulates everyone from her trustworthy husband to the fickle media and the unsuspecting public. The show features the well known songs, 'All That Jazz,' 'Razzle Dazzle' and 'Mr. Cellophane'.

The cast currently stars Amra-Fay Wright (Velma Kelly ), Bianca Marroquin (Roxie Hart), Ryan Silverman (Billy Flynn), Roz Ryan (Mama Morton), Paul C. Vogt (Amos Hart) and R. Lowe (Mary Sunshine).

Chicago has music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Book by Bob Fosse & Fred Ebb.

The musical is directed by Walter Bobbie, with choreography by Ann Reinking, scene design by John Lee Beatty, costumes by William Ivey Long, lighting by Ken Billington and sound by Scott Lehrer.

Chicago is the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Recording.