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Lai's new libretto for Sarah is "Chicago", once known as the most complex drama on Broadway.

Inspired by an interesting story Alcatel told him, it reminded him of a Chicago story.

To be honest, then he spent one night writing the script, preparing to stage a suspenseful reasoning drama on Broadway in the 20s of the 20th century with thighs, stockings, and see-through outfits.

In fact, "Chicago" tells an extremely ridiculous story lightly under the wrapping of the drunken fans.

Two jazz female singers who are suspected of love murder at the bottom of the entertainment industry, under the defense of the lawyer's clever tongue and reversal of black and white, and in the chaos of the media not distinguishing between right and wrong, they acted a clumsy trick pointing at the deer as a horse, but they actually earned enough eyeballs, were acquitted, and finally saved the country and gained fame and fortune.

The core of this drama is two elements: black and xing.

Black is an element that only exists in this special era, and needless to say, if there is no white thigh, who would run the theater to watch reasoning?

In a sense, the show "Chicago" is a microcosm of the city of Chicago, and it can even be said to be a microcosm of the entire ugly country society after the war.

The plot is not as complicated as Conan, but in the field of stage plays, it is indeed the tallest in the field:

Two female inmates with similar experiences, Lockie Hart and Velma Kelly, are murdered and imprisoned, and with the help of the clever lawyer Billy Flynn, they finally escape the death penalty and get out of prison and become popular female stars.

Lockie aspires to be famous and will do anything to make it famous, including selling her body.

As long as someone can put her on stage, she can accept the "qgz" of everything.

She makes no secret of her desires and ambitions, but fate makes people, the more she wants to get something, the more she can't get anything.

Loxie was deceived, and in a fit of rage, she killed her lover and was arrested and imprisoned.

Velma is a nightclub dancer who is hot and hot, but not famous.

After she found out that her husband was cheating on her sister, she couldn't stand such a blow because of her arrogant personality, and shot the two directly in anger.

What's more coincidental is that the two murderers meet Billy, a sanctimonious but well-versed lawyer.

Billy, though a lawyer, is more of a businessman who finds amazing business value in two female murderers.

So, he gushed endlessly in the courtroom, and debated fiercely.

In the end, Billy, a shrewd businessman lawyer, triumphed, and under the packaging of light and shadow, under the huge magic of the media's black and white, the former prisoner was transformed into a glamorous female star on the stage.

Light and shadow, money, desire, law, entertainment, these unrelated words are absurdly and reasonably crocheted.

Under the background of the flashy times, there is a unique black humor.

Of course, the original Chicago was inspired by real events.

The real case takes place two years later in the spring, and the fate of three women is entangled in Chicago, the "murder capital".

A 20-year-old girl from Kentucky, the prototype of Lockie Hart.

She had a mixed emotional experience, having just ended her first marriage, settling in Chicago with an auto mechanic and marrying a cashier at a local laundry.

And she met her lover at the laundry and started an extramarital affair.

Another woman, who is nearly 40 years old, is the prototype of Verma Kelly, a cabaret whose current husband is a wealthy industrialist.

But because of the inexplicable troubles in her marriage with her ex-husband, the industrialist once declared their marriage null and void, and then the two remarried again for some reason, and of course, she also had an underground lover.

Then there is Maureen Watkins, 27 years old, who studied writing at Harvard University with the famous American drama educator George Baker.

Motivated by a desire to get out of the ivory tower of the academy and explore the real world, she moved to Chicago and became one of the first female journalists to work for the Chicago Tribune.

This is the beginning of two bloody homicides.

As soon as this book came out, it firmly caught Sarah's eyeballs, as a woman, she seems to be more empathetic, for the helplessness of this era, and for the understanding of the choice of two women.

She believes that once this book is moved to the stage, it will definitely cause an uproar.

Li Yaoyang's talent in screenwriting has long been undoubted, but as his fame grows, more and more people pay attention to him, which makes it impossible for him to create as freely as before.

No, to be precise, his new script has just come out, and before the official rehearsal has begun, it has attracted the attention of the major theaters in the league.

Everyone is looking forward to his new masterpiece, and although the new script shared before is also good, it is not yet a classic.

They are all smart people, no one is stupid, why Li Yaoyang did this, he knows it with his toes.

But this time is different, this is a new script tailored by Li Yaoyang for the Hudson Theater, and after a year, the audience's expectations have long been filled.

It's a shame that Li Yaoyang is not in New York, otherwise the endless stream of people would have trampled on the threshold of his house.

He didn't feel deep in the quiet of Atlantic City, and Sarah was miserable, facing pressure from all sides every day, and several hairs fell out.

But she is also ruthless, so she is pressed all the time, no one will give face, if you want to talk, I will talk with you, want to share the script? No way!

In this atmosphere, Chicago has been rehearsing for 1 month, but it is far from the level of the premiere.

There are not many singing links in this play, and the dance elements are more prominent, especially tap dance, which poses a great test to the actors' dance skills and body coordination.

It is difficult to meet the requirements by relying on those veteran actors in the theater alone, and they have to recruit newcomers from scratch.

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On the eve of the election, Li Yaoyang quietly went back to New York, without notifying anyone, without telling anyone, he took Xiaoqi and his brothers

In front of Sarah's house, Li Yaoyang Nunu mouthed, asked Xiao Qi and them to spread out to check nearby, and caught sneaky people when they encountered them.

He stepped forward and knocked on the door, and the maid of Sarah's house was stunned when she saw him:

"Mr. Lee?"

"Is Sarah at home?"

"In~ in, please come in, I'll call Madame."

"Thank you!"

Stepping in, a warm rush came over me.

The fireplace in the living room was burning, and a kitten was lying next to it greedily enjoying the warmth, its eyes narrowing and sleepy.

The flower cloth curtains are floated by the breeze, and the shadows of the trees are swaying, which is a very pleasant environment.

After a while, Sarah walked downstairs barefoot and looked at Li Yaoyang unexpectedly:

"Why did you come back all of a sudden?"