A TALE of murder, treachery and greed will come to The Q next month.

First performed on Broadway in 1975, Chicago is the longest running American musical in Broadway history.

Free Rain Theatre production promises to keep audiences on the edge of their seats with a sleek package of sex, murder, song and dance.

Set in prohibition-era Chicago during the roaring twenties we find Roxie Hart (Jenna Roberts), an ambitious chorus girl who murders her lover.

Roxie then convinces her gullible husband Amos (Steven Galinec) that the dead man was in fact a burglar.

“Roxie Hart is a woman who grew up as a chorus dancer and she is now married to this sort of hapless, lovely, but half-witted mechanic and she is desperate, for fame,” Roberts said.

“She is a loveable character but she is also extraordinarily narcissistic. She will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

“She then commits a terrible crime and then decides to use that crime for fame. Along the way she runs into a lot of other women who are doing the same thing.”

Amos agrees to take the rap until the police arrive. But the officers soon convince him the burglar was Roxie’s lover.

Roxie ends up in jail and joins another would-be famous vaudeville performer and murderess, Velma Kelly (Hannah Ley).

Both Roxie and Velma are headline hunters seeking to capitalise on pre-trial publicity for the sake of an acquittal and their stage careers.

Silver-tongued lawyer Billy Flynn (Adrian Flor) manages to get both Roxie and Velma freed.

A classically trained singer Roberts, 25, has loved the opportunity to combine her dance experienced with the demands of the jazzy musical.

Despite the sinister nature to the character she insists there is something within Roxie we can all relate to.

“Roxie is someone who wants her moment in the spotlight. She really is someone who makes the best out of every situation and I think we can all identify with that,” she said.