Chess the Musical
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The plot is a fever dream of international espionage and romance, pairing a hotheaded American grandmaster with a stoic Russian counterpart. They fight over a championship title and a woman, because of course they do. It is a strange, synthy trip through 1980s paranoia that feels surprisingly relevant when we are all losing our minds over global tensions anyway. Tveit, Michele, and Christopher pull off the heavy lifting with enough talent to make you forget the show’s more dated libretto habits. Go if you like big, soaring vocals and don’t mind a story that moves with the speed of a glacial R train. It is a solid night out, assuming you can handle the ego.
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ABBA's Cold War chess musical returns to Broadway after 37 years with grandmaster voices — Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher — and a famously troublesome book that the revival reworks to mixed effect. The songs still soar; the story still tangles. Thrilling in parts, flat in others, and critics split hard. Come for the voices, forgive the plot.
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ABBA’s Cold War chess musical returns to Broadway after 37 years with grandmaster voices — Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher — and a famously troublesome book that the revival reworks to mixed effect. The songs still soar; the story still tangles. Thrilling in parts, flat in others, and critics split hard. Come for the voices, forgive the plot.