2025-2026 Season

Chicago: Teen Edition

Performing January 16 – February 1, 2026, on the Spotlight Youth Theatre main stage.

In “Roaring Twenties” Chicago, chorus girl Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap… until he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another “Merry Murderess,” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the “American Dream”: fame, fortune, and acquittal.

Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse

Music by John Kander

Lyrics by Fred Ebb

Based on the Play by Maurine Dallas Watkins / Script adaptation by David Thompson

Click here for the online audition form for Chicago Teen Edition.

About This Production

Ever inspiring and feeling even more timely now than when it was written, CHICAGO is set in the legendary city during the roaring “jazz hot” 20s. CHICAGO tells the story of two rival vaudevillian murderesses locked up in Cook County Jail. Nightclub star Velma’s serving time for killing her husband and sister after finding the two in bed together. Driven chorus girl Roxie’s been tossed in the joint for bumping off the lover she’s been cheating on her husband with. Not one to rest on her laurels, Velma enlists the help of prison matron Mama Morton and slickster lawyer Billy Flynn, who turn Velma’s incarceration into a murder-of-the-week media frenzy, thus preparing the world for a splashy showbiz comeback. But Roxie’s got some of her own tricks up her sleeve…

Cast

Role(s)Performer(s)
Cast information will be provided once the show is cast.
CTE

Production Team

Role(s)Team Member(s)
DirectorChristina Clodt
Joshua Hengst
Musical DirectorKen Goodenberger
ChoreographerKatie Czajkowski
Set DesignerMike Armstrong
Logan Swope
Costume DesignerHeather Riddle
Hair & MakeupIan Rey Seusedo
Lighting & Sound DesignerSarah Ray
Stage ManagerHarleigh Irizarry