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4 What's up! November 6-12, 2022 Chicago Continued From Page 3 On The COVeR Jeff brooks (center) as billy Flynn is pictured with the ensemble for "Chicago," the 25th anniversary tour stopping Nov. 8-13 at the Walton arts Center in Fayetteville. Christina Wells, who plays matron "mama" mor- ton credits the music for keeping crowds coming back for 25 years. "the music obviously is phenomenal — 'all that Jazz,' 'When You're Good to mama,' even 'Gun' — these are songs that everyone in the world knows. people use the phrase 'razzle dazzle' because of the show," she says. (Courtesy Photo/Jeremy Daniel) President Brent A. Powers editor Becca Martin- Brown 479-872-5054 bmartin@nwaonline. com twitter: nWAbecca rePorters Monica Hooper mhooper@nwaonline. com April Wallace awallace@nwaonline. com (479) 770-3746 designer Deb Harvell What's Up! is a publication of the northwest Arkansas democrat-gazette. Watkins, the reporter assigned to cover the 1924 trials of murderesses Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner for The Chicago Tribune. "It only did OK on Broadway" in the beginning, but Wells explains that it really picked in 1997 around the time of the OJ Simpson trial. "I've really sat down and thought of this. So now here you have watched a famous person in a crime situation use the press to really create a way to have his own resolution," Wells says. "Here you have this mirroring on stage now … Velma Kelly is this jazz singer who everyone knows. And she has killed her husband and her sister. So she's using the press to figure out a way to get herself off. Then Roxy comes, and Roxy has killed her boyfriend. You think Roxy is small bits because she's not famous. But she learns quickly how to get herself on the front page of the paper. And so the story — the press and drama, intrigue, wanting to know about famous people. Come on. That's forever. That's those are evergreen topics. Imagine if a Kardashian did something today, we would be glued to the television."