“Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz.” Snap your fingers to the syncopated beat of “Cell Block Tango,” the opening number in Kander and Ebb’s now-immortal musical. The choreography was Bob Fosse’s. But after watching the FX TV series Fosse/Verdon last year, we’ve learned that dancer Gwen Verdon was at his side developing the moves along with him. Monique Hafen Adams will step into the Roxie Hart role, the one that Renée Zellweger played in the 2002 movie. The production runs through March 15.

Chicago
Thu, 7:30pm, $32+
San Jose Stage Company

This iconic classic rock band got its start playing in the nightclubs of late ’60s Chicago, ultimately taking the city’s name for its own. At a time when most rock groups stuck to the classic four-piece arrangement of two guitars, bass and drums, Chicago challenged conventions by incorporating the diverse musical traditions of their hometown—gaining an international following by merging rock & roll with a killer horn section that drew inspiration from jazz, funk and R&B. The rest is history.

Chicago
Tue, 8pm, $70+
San Jose Civic, San Jose

Broadway San Jose hosts six performances (over four days) of the celebrated crime-and-dames musical Chicago, which first burst out of Broadway back in 1975. (Let’s not forget the 2002 movie version won the Oscar for Best Picture.) The play is the story of two women, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, both of whom are murderers of the men who did them wrong. The musical has played around the world pretty much continuously since its debut, and it’s given the world such songs as All That Jazz and Cell Block Tango, among many others. Dress in your best 1920s chic and go see it.

Chicago
Thu-Sun, Various Times, $33+
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

Chicago’s DMN Ology has been spelling his name about six different ways since he came up in the Chicago hip-hop scene in the ’90s. It’s not so much that he’s into Satan—although devils and demons do pop up in the imagery of his songs—it’s that “Demon” was his nickname growing up, a play on his real name “Damien.”

When he started rapping, he was looking for a good MC name and liked how “Demonology,” in this case, implied a certain amount of self-examination. It also fits with the alchemist style of his almost stream-of-consciousness raps.

Nor is music the only flow he’s known for—he’s also one of Chicago’s best graffiti artists, who tagged many a “Demon” on the routes of the Transit Authority. Now, he’s gone legit, painting murals in his trademark “wild onion” style for the Chicago public school system and others, and getting invited to galleries around the country and internationally. But he still organizes the global graffiti summit Meeting of Styles.

He’ll headline the list of guests artists this week at the “Leap Year Edition” of the Cypher open mic night at Johnny V’s in San Jose on Wednesday (Feb. 29), along with Self Destruct and Ackrite. Show starts 9pm; cover is $5.

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