From If the Song Doesn't Work, Change the Dress: The Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt "My next collaboration with Fosse was Chicago two years later, while Pippin was still running at the Imperial Theatre. He was making the show for Gwen, from whom he had separated in 1971. They had purchased the rights to a 1942 Ginger Rogers film called Roxie Hart and the original 1927 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins about two vaudeville dancers, Rox