Wow! Chicago the Razzle Dazzle Edition..- Page 2

[justme2]

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:11am

Bought it today on Amazon for $20.99...and I had to make sure I was purchasing the Razzle Dazzle edition, not the regualr DVD.

[renthead92]

Posted: 12/29/05 at 9:14am

It really is a must have. I watched it last night and loved it! Probably on of my best purchases of the year (besides the Rent movie soundtrack.) The bonus features are awesome! My favorites are the rehearsal footage and From Stage to Screen. Go out and buy it now!

[tthomas76]

Posted: 12/29/05 at 10:32am

Just purchased mine from Bestbuy.com was going to wait until my B-day but decided i can't...

[Chip1012]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 1:24am

UGH. Those stupid producer men on the Liza segment. They talk and talk about stuff we already know and get lots of stuff wrong. 1) The revival has not been running for "over 10 years." 2) It was not Chita's idea for Liza to do "My Own Best Friend" as a solo. Did they not read the most obvious source, the "Colored Lights" book? 3) The Dinah Shore segment is great, but it's not the only footage of her in the role as they claim with such certainty.

Posted: 12/30/05 at 1:30am

i'll be at target in the morning! i love this movie even more than the stage version and i think rob marshall is BRILLIANT! AND a sweet sweet man..i auditioned for him several years ago when i first came to NYC for She Loves Me..i made it down to the last three (another one was Amy Spanger!!) and he was soooo nice i couldn't believe it! well, the show closed and the tour was cancelled!! amy and i might have been in that show together! LOL!
anyway..sorry for the tangent, i am high on chewy spree! YUM!

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 1:35am

I didn't read that book. What's the real story then? What are they covering up? And why?

Updated On: 12/30/05 at 01:35 AM

[Chip1012]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 2:52am

Go get the book, it's wonderful. And put a shirt on. Please?

Updated On: 12/30/05 at 02:52 AM

[DAME]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 2:58am

I like him without his shirt.

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 3:29am

So, I take it you are in fact part of the conspiracy, Chip1012?

And thank you, Dame.

Updated On: 12/30/05 at 03:29 AM

[Chip1012]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 3:51pm

conspiracy?? just read the damn book and you'll understand the error.

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 4:01am

The fact that you won't simply tell me boggles my mind. Why all the secrecy? Why? Why?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 4:12am

OK, I read the book so I can provide you with some info.
John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote the song "My Own Best Friend" as a solo for Roxie at the end of Act II, however, Fosse decided that it would be a duet and since he was the director he had the last word (People on this board have said that the reason Fosse made it a duet for Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera was because Verdon was too weak vocally to handle another solo, this is not discussed in the book). When Verdon got sick and Liza Minnelli replaced her as Roxie Hart, Fred Ebb (a long time friend of Minnelli, almost a father figure) asked her to ask Fosse to let her perform the song as a solo, since Minnelli apparently had a way with Fosse and Chita didn't have problems with not performing the song, then the number was re-conceived as a solo for Roxie.
Read the book though! It's an awesome read! No need to take off the shirt either! (sorry if the commentary offends you coming from a man)

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 4:21am

sorry if the commentary offends you coming from a man

Huh?

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 4:30am

I just finished watching the special features and, yes, this is a must own. You know you're a Chicago fanatic when you start singing along to the Nowadays track ("and it's good, isn't it...") on the Stage to Screen segment, knowing that it's there mostly so that the people/talking heads behind Chicago can pat themselves on the back for doing such a great job on the stage show and the movie. That's exactly what they should do, imo.


I love Renee Zellweger talking about how much rehearsals for We Both Reached for the Gun freaked her out. That's easily my favorite number in the film.

Updated On: 12/31/05 at 04:30 AM

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 9:50am

I was cracking up at her description of reading the script when she was first offered the part:

"We both reached for the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun [flip page] the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun [flip page] the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun [flip page] the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun [flip page] we both reached for the gun. And I can't do that, because I don't understand it. And you I think you people are crazy..."

Easily one of the funniest moments on there.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 11:33am

I bought this last night. I have yet to stick it into my DVD player. Maybe tonight...

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 1:57pm

"We both reached for the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun [flip page] the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun [flip page] the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun [flip page] the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun [flip page] we both reached for the gun. And I can't do that, because I don't understand it. And you I think you people are crazy..."

I remember her saying that in an interview when the movie came out. It's funny, but I thought it was a little weird and possibly disingenuous. I mean, she may not have known the music, but she didn't know she was reading the screenplay to a musical and that those were lyrics?

Updated On: 12/31/05 at 01:57 PM

[sndtrklvr]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 9:03pm

Watched this last night. Delightful. All the extra's were great and I really enjoyed the rehearsal footage. Seeing Liza made me all the more excited for the DVD release of "Liza with a Z." and I truly wish another musical role could be found for Catherine Zeta Jones, she has a real zip to her.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 10:40pm

to vouch about the liza footage, i have a clip of her singing my own best friend on a show hosted by, it looks like smmy davis jr.(forgive me if i'm wrong its not the greatest of tape quality), also on that clip is chita doing all that jazz solo, choreography and all (as much as i adore fosse's work watching all that jazz with just one person is underwhelming )

[Plum]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 1:01am

Argh. I get a gift certificate for Barnes and Noble and of course they don't have it.

[corsairstw]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 1:27am

I got it for Christmas too! I can't wait to go looking around at all the goodies.

[justme2]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 1:37am

I shall await the office delivery guy come Tuesday.

He shall be rewarded richly for delivering my Amazon order of this DVD.