Chess In Concert [DVD] [2009] [NTSC]

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Gans, Andrew. "Heaven Help Her Heart: Julia Murney Heads Cast of All-Star Chess Concert Sept. 22", Playbill.com, 22 September 2003, accessed 9 September 2016 The musical has Book by Tim Rice, Music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Lyrics by Tim Rice, Adapted and directed by Hugh Wooldridge. Tim Rice has always expressed his desire of adapting Chess for the big screen. In 2003, Kylie Minogue was in talks to play one of the two female parts. She met with Rice in Paris to discuss the script. Jude Law and Brendan Gleeson were discussed as male leads. [83] [ unreliable source?] A prologue is added that takes place decades before the main storyline during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution You And I" (retitled "Dreams Of Glass/Drömmar av glas") opens with a long instrumental portion before anything is sung

Freddie's strong-willed second and possible paramour, who was separated from her presumably captured or killed father during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; Florence feels strained by Freddie's brashness and falls in love with Anatoly, eventually becoming his mistress. Tim Rice, a lyricist and librettist best known for musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, had long wanted to write a musical about the Cold War. During the mid-1970s, he had discussed the idea of a musical about the Cuban Missile Crisis with his usual collaborator, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, but the idea never came to fruition. On 17 October 2020, the first Russian production of Chess premiered at the MDM Theatre in Moscow. [77] It was produced by Dmitriy Bogachov, the former head of Stage Entertainment Russia, founder of Moscow Broadway, and member of The Broadway League. The opening had been scheduled for 10 October, but was moved a week later. The cast included Aleksandr Sukhanov and Kirill Gordeev as Anatoly, Anastasia Stotskaya, Olga Belyaeva, and Yulia Iva as Florence, Aleksandr Kazmin and Aleksandr Bobrov as Freddie, Anna Guchenkova and Yulia Iva as Svetlana, Stanislav Belyaev and Denis Demkiv as the Arbiter, and Aleksandr Marakulin, Aleksandr Matrosov, and Andrey Shkoldychenko as Molokov. [78] The lyrics were translated by Aleksei Ivaschenko ( Nord-Ost, Russian versions of The Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music). The show was mostly based on the West End version, but took many cues from the original concept album. The prologue is set in Moscow, as in the Swedish version, and the rest of the show is set in Merano (Act I) and Bangkok (Act II). Walter was omitted and the songs "Merchandisers", "Florence and Molokov", "Anatoly and the Press", "One More Opponent", "Talking Chess" and "Finale" were removed. The song "Argument" was included. The chess games played on stage are actual historical chess games: Karpov-Korchnoi (1978) and Spassky-Fischer (1972) in Act I, and Karjakin-Caruana (2016) in Act II. Starting 7 April 2020, the omitted song "Merchandisers" was performed by the chorus in the theater lobby during intermission. The production closed on 16 October 2022, running for over 600 performances, making it the second-longest running professional production of the show, after only the original London production. [79]Chess the Musical in Concert is part of three concerts presented in August at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. It precedes concert stagings of Kinky Boots the Musical in Concert on 8 and 9 August and Treason the Musical in Concert on 22 and 23 August. Chess received its first full theatrical staging in 1986 when the show was produced on the West End. Initially directed by Michael Bennett, who had to withdraw due to illness, the production was directed by Trevor Nunn. Graebner, Norman A., Richard Dean Burns & Joseph M. Siracusa (2008). Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-313-35241-6. Previous Winners: Olivier Winners 1986". Olivier Awards. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013 . Retrieved 21 October 2013. Minor lyrical alterations and song reductions or extensions throughout, compared to the original album

By the late 1970s, Rice had become inspired to tell his Cold War story through the prism of the long-standing United States-Soviet Union chess rivalry; he had earlier been fascinated by the political machinations of the 1972 " Match of the Century" between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. [7] However, by the time Rice wanted to begin work on the musical in early 1979, Lloyd Webber was unavailable, as he was already at work on his next musical, Cats. You And I (Reprise)" is returned to its original concept album state, including "The Story Of Chess" in the middle Two of the world’s greatest chess masters, an American and a Russian, battle it out at the world championships – but their greatest contest is for the love of the same woman. The American and Florence" has an instrumental part halfway through that showcases the day Florence's father got taken away

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Chess the Musical in Concert will add an additional matinee performance to its chequerboard, on Tuesday 2 August, due to popular demand. The first announced date sold out in 7 days, so there will now be a total of three performances of the iconic production. A limited-run West End revival began at the London Coliseum on 26 April 2018 through 2 June 2018, officially opening on 1 May 2018. Billed as the first revival of the show in 30 years, the production was directed by Laurence Connor, with choreography by Stephen Mear. [71] The cast included Michael Ball as Anatoly, Phillip Browne as Molokov, Alexandra Burke as Svetlana, Cedric Neal as the Arbiter, Tim Howar as Freddie and Cassidy Janson as Florence. [72] Described as a new interpretation of the original concept album, the production kept the first act in Merano and the second in Bangkok, and included all songs from the concept album (including "Argument"), along with the popular "Someone Else's Story", removed the character of Walter entirely, and dropped the final twist of Florence's father never having been found after all, instead ending on the bittersweet parting of Florence and Anatoly amidst the triumphant crescendo of You And I. Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice. The story involves a politically driven, Cold War-era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other. Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any real individuals, the character of the American grandmaster (named Freddie Trumper in the stage version) was loosely based on Bobby Fischer, [1] while elements of the story may have been inspired by the chess careers of Russian grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov. [2] Holden, Stephen (9 May 1985). "Critic's Notebook; Building a Musical Around a Record Album". The New York Times . Retrieved 22 October 2016.

The original recording of "One Night in Bangkok" is played as dance music in a nightclub between "The American and Florence" and "Nobody's Side" Jones, Kenneth. " Chess, Starring Jill Paice, Jeremy Kushnier and Euan Morton, Opens at Signature in VA", Playbill.com, 29 August 2010Heaven Help My Heart" is used as the Act 1 finale, and ends with a brief reprise of "One Night In Bangkok". Correspondingly, "Embassy Lament" and "Anthem" are moved to the beginning of Act 2. Casting Director – Harry Blumenau | Associate Director & Choreographer – Alexzandra Sarmiento | Assistant Director & Choreographer – Tara Young Surprisingly, Svetlana and Florence end up bonding over their respective relationships with Anatoly. Florence ultimately admits that it would be best for Anatoly to return to his children and Svetlana, while Svetlana accepts that Anatoly has long fallen out of love with her ("I Know Him So Well"). Anatoly, meanwhile, follows an anonymous letter guiding him to Wat Pho, where Freddie appears to tell him that he is willing to put their conflict behind him. Having decided that he only wants Anatoly to "be true to the game", Freddie informs Anatoly of a significant flaw in Viigand's strategy that will help Anatoly win ("Talking Chess"). A year later, Anatoly is set to defend his championship in Bangkok, Thailand ("Golden Bangkok"). Freddie is already there, chatting up locals and experiencing the Bangkok nightlife ("One Night in Bangkok"); he is Global TV's official commentator for the match. Florence and Anatoly are now openly lovers, and worry about Freddie's sudden reappearance as well as the impending arrival of Anatoly's estranged wife, Svetlana, from Russia ("One More Opponent" / "You and I"), which Anatoly suspects is part of Molokov's plan to shame him into returning to the Soviet Union. Molokov, meanwhile, has trained a new protégé, Leonid Viigand, to challenge, defeat, and humiliate Anatoly ("The Soviet Machine"). Marynowski, Jenna (8 July 2016). "Chess at Walterdale shows interchangeability of pawns and kings". Archived from the original on 9 August 2016.