roxie's first song was devoted to ex - girlfriend denise matthews.
roxie's first song was devoted to ex - girlfriend denise matthews.
who is roxie's first song devoted to?
ex - girlfriend denise matthews
a month later, casely admits to roxie that he has no showbiz connections and just wanted to sleep with her. enraged, she shoots him dead. she convinces her husband, amos, to take the blame, telling him she killed a burglar in self-defense. as amos confesses to the detective, roxie fantasizes that she is singing a song devoted to her husband ("funny honey"). however, when the detective brings up evidence that roxie and casely were having an affair, amos recants; roxie furiously admits what really happened and is arrested. ambitious district attorney harrison announces he will seek the death penalty.
chicago (2002 film)
at cook county jail, roxie is sent to murderess' row, under the care of the corrupt matron "mama" morton ("when you're good to mama"). roxie meets her idol velma, but her friendship is rudely rebuffed. she learns the backstories of the other women there, including velma ("cell block tango"). on morton's advice, roxie engages velma's lawyer, the brilliant billy flynn ("all i care about"). flynn and roxie manipulate the press, reinventing roxie's identity as an originally virtuous woman turned bad by the fast life of the city; she claims she had the affair with casely because amos was always working, but repented and dumped him for amos, and casely jealously attacked her ("we both reached for the gun"). the press believe the story; praised by the public as a tragic heroine, roxie becomes an overnight sensation ("roxie"). velma, unhappy at losing the public's attention, tries to convince roxie to join her act, replacing the sister that she murdered ("i can't do it alone"), but roxie, now the more popular of the two rivals, snubs her just as velma originally snubbed roxie.
chicago (2002 film)