June 2009
CHESS, THE MUSICAL, an Amateur Production, By Arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LIMITED June 2009 at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham.
Music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and Lyrics by Tim Rice, this fantastic show contained numbers including ‘I Know Him So Well’ and ‘One Night in Bangkok’ which are both international hits in their own right, and powerful toe-tapping numbers like ‘Arbiter’ and ‘Merano’.
This highly acclaimed musical develops the ancient and distinguished game of chess into a metaphor for romantic rivalries and East-West political intrigue. The principal pawns form a love triangle: the loutish American Grandmaster, the earnest Russian champion and the Hungarian-American female chess second, who arrives at the international championships with the American, but falls for the Russian. From Tyrol to Thailand, the players, lovers, politicians, CIA and KGB make their moves to the pulse of this monumental rock score.
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