Anyone looking for the new Janet Jackson track in the movie version of the musical Chicago will struggle to find it. Jackson recorded the track last Autumn – the movie’s producers wanting an original song alongside those that appear in the stage show so they would be eligible for the best original song category at the Oscars. But the song was dropped at the last minute in favour of a new track written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, the writers of the original show, which is performed by the film’s stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger. No comment from either side on why the Jackson track was dropped.
Chicago opens in the UK next week, though preview screenings in the West End were enough to put the film in the box office top ten last week!