“Remember, it’s only a game! Muahahaha”
Dress rehearsal tonight went very very well, minus a very fixable glitch or two. The pit and singers are working really well with each other now. It should be a great show. I’ll be running through my book to fix a thing or two, but aside from that I feel it’ll be a great weekend performance.
Below are two videos and more photos from the rehearsals to give you an idea what the show will be like. This musical is rarely put on stage (it only lasted 8 weeks on Broadway), so if you want to catch it, now would be the best opportunity. It’s enormously underrated.
The Arbiter’s Song, which is not released as a song on any existing Chess recording. One of my favorites that opens Act II:
The song everyone knows, “One Night in Bangkok”:
Photos from Wednesday and Thursday rehearsal:
