Chess (theatre): Difference between revisions

''"They can't even win a game!"<br />

''We have never reckoned on coming second;<br />

 

A [[Rock Opera]] with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of [[ABBA]] and with book and lyrics by [[Tim Rice]]. Widely considered to be the latter's [[Magnum Opus]]. It was originally produced as a successful [[Concept Album]] in 1984, then became a West End production, and eventually reached Broadway. Each version of the show underwent changes in story and music; Rice considers the version performed in concert at Royal Albert Hall in 2008, which both restores excised early material and includes some of the later changes, to be the official one.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Molokov

** Walter's part is also pretty low.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Trevor Nunn.

* [[Fading Into the Next Song]]: Done a lot on the [[Concept Album]], but not so much on stage since they usually have a one or two lines of dialogue to cram in before the next cue.

* [[Irrelevant Act Opener]]: "The Story of Chess" has nothing to do with the actual plot of the show. "Merano" and "One Night in Bangkok" have very little to do, either, only describing the locations.

* [[Jerkass]]: Freddie Trumper, though given the source material this is unsurprising. (If anything he's ''less'' of one than the guy he's based on.)

* [[Kent Brockman News]]: Walter is ostensibly the reporter covering the match, but that takes a back seat to his trying to influence it and mess with the players through his coverage (and other actions). This extends to him arranging for a video of Anatoly's (abandoned) family to play during an interview of Anatoly, with the predictable effects on Anatoly.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Molokov.