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    44 CHICAGO ACT I ACT 1 CHICAGO 46

    ing ROXIE reading a newspaper with a headline that says, THEY'RE GONNA RECOGNIZE MY EYES
    "ROXIE ROCKS CHICAGO.") MY HAIR, MY TEETH, MY BOOBS, MY NOSE
    ROXIE. (To the audience.) You wanna know something? I
    always wanted my name in the paper. Before Amos, I used to FROM JUST SOME DUMB MECHANIC'S WIFE
    date this well-to-do, ugly bootlegger. He used to like to take I'M GONNA BE ROXIE
    me out and show me off. Ugly guys like to do that. Once it WHO SAYS THAT MURDER'S NOT AN ART?
    said in the paper, "Gangland's Al Capelli seen at Chez Vito
    with cute redheaded chorine." That was me. I clipped it out AND WHO IN CASE SHE DOESN'T HANG
    and saved it. (Holds up newspaper.) Now look, "ROXIE CAN SAY SHE STARTED WITH A BANG?
    ROCKS CHICAGO." (Gives the paper to SOMEONE in the audi- ROXIE HART!
    ence. Newspaper backdrop out.) Here, read this. Look, I'm (Spoken.) I'm going to have a swell act, tool Yeah, I'll get
    gonna tell you the truth. Not that the truth really matters, but a boy to work with—someone who can lift me and smile at
    I'm gonna tell you anyway. The thing is, see ... I'm older me— Oh, hell, I'll get two boys. It'll frame me better! Think
    than I ever intended to be. All my life I wanted to be a dancer "Big," Roxie— I'll get a whole bunch of boys. (Six BOYS enter
    in vaudeville. Oh, yeah. Have my own act. But, no. No. No. and begin to dance with ROXIE. ROXIE sings:)
    No. They always turned me down. It was one big world full of
    "No." Life. Then Amos came along. Sweet, safe Amos, who THE NAME ON EVERYBODY'S LIPS
    never says no. You know some guys are like mirrors, and when IS GONNA BE
    I catch myself in Amos' face I'm always a kid. Ya could love BOYS.
    a guy like that. Look now, I gotta tell ya, and I hope this ain't ROXIE
    too crude. In the bed department, Amos was zero. I mean, ROXIE.
    when we went to bed, he made love to me like he was fixin' THE LADY RAKIN' IN THE CHIPS
    a carburetor or somethin'. "I love ya, honey. I love ya." Any- IS GONNA BE
    way, to make a long story short, I started foolin' around. BOYS.
    Then I started screwin' around, which is foolin' around with- ROXIE
    out dinner. I gave up the vaudeville idea, because after all SHE'S GONNA BE A CELEBRITY
    those years . . . well, you sort of figure opportunity just ROXIE,
    passed you by. Oh, but it ain't. Oh no, no, no, no it ain't. If THAT MEANS SOMEBODY EVERYONE KNOWS
    this Flynn guy gets me off, and with all this publicity, I could BOYS.
    still get into vaudeville. I could still have my own act. Now, THEY'RE GONNA RECOGNIZE HER EYES
    I got me a world full of "Yes." (Sings:) HER HAIR, HER TEETH
    ROXIE,
    SONG: "ROXIE" MY BOOBS, MY NOSE
    FROM JUST SOME DUMB MECHANIC'S WIFE
    THE NAME ON EVERYBODY'S LIPS I'M GONNA BE
    IS GONNA BE ROXIE BOYS.
    THE LADY RAKIN 1 IN THE CHIPS ROXIE
    IS GONNA BE ROXIE ROXIE.
    WHO SAYS THAT MURDER'S NOT AN ART?
    I'M GONNA BE A CELEBRITY BOYS,
    THAT MEANS SOMEBODY EVERYONE KNOWS AND WHO IN CASE SHE DOESN'T HANG

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