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...CHESS: A Prodigy Returns to the Board...
...King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, Jim Steinman -- who might have brought the American musical into the age of rock. Or maybe it wouldn't have mattered, given the stodgily conservative tastes of Broadway's geezer audience. The Rocky Horror Show lasted less than a month in 1975. And Chess was a 1988 Broadway flop, though Rice and the composers from the pop group ABBA wrote a spectacularly varied and vigorous score that included One Night in Bangkok, the last show tune to make...
...whom he has been estranged in the past, is Jewish. So up he pops while the world watches, defending himself against charges of anti-Semitism on a technicality ("I am definitely not anti-Arab, O.K.?") while castigating Zionism, berating the U.N. and accusing Karpov and Gary Kasparov, the current chess world champion, of fixing title matches during the 1980s...
Fischer, the eternally callow prodigy, has been forgiven much in the past thanks to the splendors of his chess; at his peak he was, many experts believe, the greatest player ever. So, apart from speculations about whether he will wind up in some federal slammer, spitting on the guards, the big question as the games in Yugoslavia began was, How good is Bobby...
...even further -- from 1941, when the title character's parents meet, to 1963, when he emerges out of a strange and tormented youth into saintly yet affable manhood. Nonetheless, the show is strikingly more modern in style, subject, setting and above all sound than any "new" Broadway musical since Chess...