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Jim-r lllt‘llllit' playing one ofthe leads in the musical masterpiece Chicago. “No one Ls completely good or bad. and I guess that‘s what I like about the character." said lllt'l’t‘ was something about Chicago's crisply drawn McFadden. “Where else in life do you get to explore that and play with that darker sides of t hdfii('ll'l'\ the dazzling ( hortography and the icon- you.’ I( iniisit tilllit' [an Age that appealed to her love Chicago is set in the 1920s where the hangover from of musical theatre. the First World War brings in prohibition and a loosen ML when she had the chance to play ing of the morals that came in the age before the femme fatale Velma Kelly iti Dray10n Enter _ GreatWar. tainment's production of Chicago at the if" d ‘- r ,V.‘ The people who woe out of that era are some of St, Jacobs (,ountry Playhouse. lune 3 to ‘ _» ‘ 1...; 1 the greatest anti-heroes ofthe 20th century. includr lune 27, sheyumped at the chance. _ 4 .1, 1 '1; ing Al Capone, John Dillinger and the gangster “People know all about the jail and 11" " v t" didiethat’sstfllwithustothisday. ' blues music, and routines by (Bob) Posse, ' X . V 2" 'h was a time of public rebellion and prohibi» and the story of murder. greed and cor- ’ a, ”a? , _ . g tion,‘ said McFadden. “It really satirizes Show ruption,” said McFadden. “For me Velma ,v ? ‘ ; ; ,gtéiiigf V business and how the media makes celebrities is actually a dream character. I've want- ' is? y i -' “ ' 1 § 2 3 ; out of criminals ed to play her ever since l was 16, y - g k j- _ 3 1! "Velma is the direct link to that theme people “There's something that always â€"- , , ., ‘ ,1 ‘. . ', ' putting on a pafomianoe of their lives. and she attracted me to her~ I don't know ifmy ‘ '3‘} y ’ ., t . ‘13â€" s...“ " ukuontherobofMCandthelmstandties into friends are worried about me or not a but I ‘ j ~; ‘ s; ' the concept that we’re always putting on a show for always go towards the darker mumcals" 3‘ w “ - chili; ,_ other people.’ the Waterloo actress has spent a lot oftime in the US. - ’ , ' > ‘ if: ,’ Some of those themes persist today. Once upon a recently in( hiding perfomting iii the 20!}! Broadway pro- _ - 3f " ’~' time scandal would rod somebody's personal reputar din tion of Spiderman lurn of the Dark. thh music and , , lion. Nowadays, Ware celebrated and you haven't lvnt s by U: frontnian Bonn and guitarist The Edge. Rubbing * ' 1' . madeit untilyouha‘lone. elbows hat kstagt- wtth the rock legends might have been cool. . {A}? 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