Broadway classic Chicago was staged in Beijing on Nov 14, with shows running till Nov 24.
The ongoing China tour will take the musical to 11 cities with 74 shows, including Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, Suzhou in Jiangsu province, Xi'an in Shaanxi province and Chongqing.
The show ran for about 600 performances until 1979. It was revived on Broadway in 1996, and then a year later in the West End. The famous tale of love, murder and corruption holds the record for one of the longest-running shows on Broadway.
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