| The Kennedy Center "Chess" workshop next month (not news, but questions) | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 10:40 am EST 01/08/18 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:38 am EST 01/08/18 | |
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| "Directed by Tony Award® winner Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Spring Awakening) with a new book by Emmy® and Golden Globe Award®–winning writer Danny Strong (Empire, The Butler, Game Change), Chess stars Raúl Esparza (Company, the Kennedy Center’s Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along) as American chess champion Freddie; Ramin Karimloo (Anastasia) as rival Russian chess star Anatoly Sergievsky; Tony Award® winner Ruthie Ann Miles (The King and I, Here Lies Love) as Anatoly’s wife, Svetlana; and Tony Award® winner Karen Olivo (West Side Story, In the Heights) as Florence, a remarkable Hungarian refugee who becomes the center of their emotional triangle. Joining them are Bradley Dean (Dear Evan Hansen) as Ivan Molokov, Sean Allan Krill (Honeymoon in Vegas) as Walter Anderson, and Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) as the Arbiter." What happened to the Richard Nelson book? By happened I mean: has he been contractually excised, albeit temporarily? Isn't it still licensed with him? I'm guessing this is somewhat like the "Side Show" model for revision, as Condon joined Bill Russell and shared book credit. But Danny Strong is being given sole authorship here. To my thinking, Strong is an unusual choice. He has no theater/playwriting credentials. If this is a project re-built from the ground up, the book could impact lyric changes (to state the obvious). It's a show that always worked best without a book, in my opinion. The Nelson text was smart but leaden. In some ways, it just repeated the ideas in the original libretto. Perhaps baked in issue in concept album shows that are later re-tooled? But damn, this is an exciting cast. |
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| Link | Broadway Center Stage: Chess |
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