Music & lyrics written by John Kander & Fred Ebb. Original score composed by Danny Elfman. CHICAGO has a long & varied history; it began life in the '20s as a play about a showgirl named Roxie Hart, the character whose name was used as the title for a '40s movie inspired by the show. In the '70s, Broadway composers Kander & Ebb (CABARET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) wrote the songs for a musical version focusing on the '20s-jazz angle & capitalizing on the murder-&-sex theme, & Bob Fosse fl