CHESS

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Music and Lyrics by Benny Andersson, Tim Rice and Björn Ulvaeus

Based on an idea by Tim Rice

New Book by Danny Strong

Music Supervision by Brian Usifer

Choreography by Lorin Latarro

Directed by Michael Mayer

 

Producers Tom Hulce, Robert Ahrens and The Shubert Organization along with Creative Partners Productions are proud to announce that Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit (Moulin Rouge), Emmy Award nominee Lea Michele (Funny Girl) and Nicholas Christopher (Sweeney Todd) will lead the first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS as Freddie Trumper, Florence Vassey and Anatoly Sergievsky, respectively, in Fall 2025 at a Shubert theater to be announced. Featuring a new book by Emmy Award winner Danny Strong (“Dopesick”), with music and lyrics by Emmy and Tony Award nominees ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award winner Tim Rice (Evita), and based on an idea by Tim Rice, this new production will be directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) and choreographed by Drama Desk Award nominee Lorin Latarro (Waitress), with music supervision by Brian Usifer. CHESS will be presented by arrangement with Three Knights, the Shubert Organization and Robert Fox Ltd.

 

CHESS is the iconic musical where power and passion collide, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. It’s America versus Russia at the World Chess Championship, where the espionage and romance are as complicated and exhilarating as the game itself. For the two players and the woman torn between them, everything—personal, professional, and political—is at risk… and nobody’s rules are the same.

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