Season 59 · 2019-2020
Chess
November 8, 2019 – November 24, 2019
This production has closed
November 8, 2019 – November 24, 2019
About the Show
The collaborators on Chess are giants of rock music and rock musicals, and here they have created a complex rock opera that played to full Broadway houses and standing ovations. In this musical, the ancient game becomes a metaphor for romantic rivalries, competitive gamesmanship, super-power politics, and international intrigues. The pawns in this drama form a love triangle: the loutish American chess star, the earnest Russian champion, and a Hungarian American female assistant who arrives at the international chess match in Bangkok with the American, but falls for the Russian. From Bangkok to Budapest the players, lovers, politicians, and spies manipulate and are manipulated to the pulse of a monumental rock score that includes “One Night in Bangkok” and “Heaven Help My Heart.”
Cast
Jeffrey DuBois
Freddie Trumper
Michael Metcalf
Anatoly Sergievsky
Rebecca Zellar
Florence Vassy
Mark Badtke
Alexander Molokov
Matthew J. Leptich
Walter DeCourcey
Kevin Pollack
Arbiter (First and Third Weekends)
Sean Walker
Arbiter (Second Weekend)
Jessica Augustine
Svetlana Sergievsky
Ryan Bavido
Nikolai
Paul Bleadow
Gregor Vassy
Madeline Booth
Young Florence
Prologue Ensemble
Debra Gass, Tom Hausman, Quinn Hausman-Chapman, Fran Jansta, Trish Jansta, Rollie Hinz, Valerie Hinz, Jeff Louis, Joanne Louis, Paula Mantas, Judith Perryman, Oscar Scharrer, Kenelm Scheske, Bryce Swaim, Sheila M. Wright, Iva Trocke, Connie Wurster
Main Ensemble
Patrick Blake, Jessica Buehler, Matthew Craig, Caryl Davidson, Alexis Dreyer, Cristianna Formeller, Lynnea Fredrickson-Smith, Jamie Gross, Dawson Hansen, Fran Jansta, Trish Jansta, Michele MacLennan, Karen Osborne, Susie Perkowitz, Kenelm Scheske, Hilary Schneider, Monica Stark, Julian Wilkerson, Connie Wurster