Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera perform “Nowadays” and “Hot Honey Rag” on The Mike Douglas Show and are interviewed by Douglas. The songs were written by Fred Kander and John Ebb for the score of Chicago, in which Verdon and Rivera created the roles of Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly. This program, telecast in 1976, documents Bob Fosse’s staging of the numbers in the original Broadway production:
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