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...CHESS. In this season’s Mainstage rock musical, two master chess players and a woman caught between them face off in their pursuit to understand the ever-shifting alliances in love, life and politics. With lyrics by Tim Rice and a score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of a chess game. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while...
Typical Friday night: Dress in black, meet a few friends, go to see “Highway Ulysses” again—or now to “Chess...
With singers, dancers and a 15-piece live orchestra, Chess has many challenging pieces for the cast to pull together in a difficult space...
...game of chess dominates the show’s set, whose back wall is covered with a game board-like metal grid. The set, as Downer describes it, is “removed from reality,” and underlines Florence’s realization that “what she’s doing is basically fake.” Florence leaves Freddie Trumper for his Russian counterpart, played by Benjamin D. Margo ’04-05, who is also a Crimson editor...
...Chess runs until April 12 at the Loeb Mainstage...