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Chicago The Musical

Chicago The Musical: every song, in order

Two of these songs are famous enough to have escaped the show: "All That Jazz" opens it, and "Cell Block Tango" is the one people quote. The other seventeen are the reason the evening works — a vaudeville bill in which every number is a turn performed at the audience rather than a scene played to another character.

Below is the running order of the 1996 revival, which is what every production on this site's calendar plays. Individual stagings move or drop a number — "Class" is the one that goes — so treat this as the shape of the evening rather than a contract.

Act one

  1. All That Jazz

    Velma and the company

    The opening. Velma sells the audience a night out while Roxie shoots her lover behind her.

  2. Funny Honey

    Roxie

    Roxie thanks her husband for taking the blame, right up to the moment he stops taking it.

  3. Cell Block Tango

    Velma and the six merry murderesses

    Six explanations, five of them jokes. The Hungarian one is not.

  4. When You're Good to Mama

    Matron "Mama" Morton

    The prison's economy, stated as a business proposition.

  5. All I Care About

    Billy Flynn and the girls

    The lawyer insists he only cares about love, surrounded by fans.

  6. A Little Bit of Good

    Mary Sunshine

    The reporter who finds the good in everyone, sung as coloratura.

  7. We Both Reached for the Gun

    Billy, Roxie, Mary Sunshine and the company

    Roxie as a ventriloquist's dummy, Billy answering the press for her.

  8. Roxie

    Roxie and the boys

    What she actually wants: not acquittal, fame.

  9. I Can't Do It Alone

    Velma

    Velma auditions her dead sister's double act for a new partner.

  10. My Own Best Friend

    Roxie and Velma

    The act-one curtain, sung by two women who trust nobody, least of all each other.

Act two

  1. I Know a Girl

    Velma

  2. Me and My Baby

    Roxie and the company

    Roxie announces a pregnancy the plot needs and biology does not.

  3. Mister Cellophane

    Amos

    The husband's one number, and the only unironic thing in the show.

  4. When Velma Takes the Stand

    Velma and the boys

  5. Razzle Dazzle

    Billy and the company

    How a trial is won. The thesis of the whole evening, sung by the lawyer.

  6. Class

    Velma and Mama Morton

    A duet about falling standards. Cut from the 2002 film, and dropped by some stagings.

  7. Nowadays

    Roxie

    The acquittal, and the anticlimax of getting what you wanted.

  8. Nowadays / Hot Honey Rag

    Roxie and Velma

    The double act finally happens, in the Fosse choreography people come back for.

  9. Finale

    The company

Four of them play on this site, in the uploaders' own frames: what you can watch now.