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CHESS on Broadway: Inside the New Revival’s High-Stakes Reboot
In this episode of Half Hour, we take a deeper dive into the new Broadway revival of CHESS at the Imperial Theatre, examining how the latest book rewrites and the use of a narrator reshape the show’s Cold War love triangle. We look at how the score by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Tim Rice now sits alongside the revised scenes, asking whether the music and storytelling finally feel in sync.
We discuss the overall production under director Michael Mayer, from the staging and design team to what’s working in the casting, with particular attention to Nicholas Christopher’s Anatoly and…
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