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Maurine Dallas Watkins
Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 - August 10, 1969) was an American journalist and playwright.
She was born in Louisville, Kentucky and attended Crawfordsville High School, followed by five colleges (including Hamilton College, Transylvania University, Butler College (Indianapolis, IN), and...
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Chicago
Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the concept...
Chicago
Roxie Hart is a fictional character, a showgirl accused of murder. She first appeared in the 1926 play Chicago written by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins. Watkins was inspired by the real-life unrelated 1924 murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva...
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