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It’s true you don’t have to know find out how to learn to play chess. Lea Michele will star alongside Tony winner Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher within the first Broadway revival of Chess. Tveit (Subsequent to Regular, Moulin Rouge!) performs fictional American grandmaster Freddie Trumper with Michele (Glee, Humorous Lady) as his second (and lover), Florence Vassey, and Nicholas Christopher (Sweeney Todd) as Soviet challenger Anatoly Sergievsky. The musical famously flopped upon its 1988 Broadway debut, closing after simply 68 performances. “The night has the theatrical consistency of quicksand,” Frank Wealthy wrote within the New York Instances, “and the drab shade scheme to match.” Nevertheless, it remained widespread partially as a result of its rating, which incorporates the ’80s traditional “One Night time in Bangkok.”
And naturally it spawned successful, with a rating by Tim Rice (The Lion King) alongside ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. The 2025 manufacturing will function a brand new ebook written by Danny Sturdy (Empire, Paris Gellar’s boyfriend in Gilmore Women), changing Richard Nelson’s authentic script. Director Michael Mayer reunites with Lea Michele — a collaboration that dates again to her first time main a Broadway manufacturing, 2006’s Spring Awakening. Chess will open in fall 2025 at a yet-to-be-disclosed Shubert Theatre. Notably, if Smash closes earlier than the autumn, Chess may return to its authentic theater, the Imperial. Kismet — wait no, flawed present.