Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher will play in a Broadway renewal of Chess This fall.
The revival of the musical, which presents the music of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus d’Abba, will offer a new book of Dopesick Creator Danny Strong. Michael Mayer, who also managed Michele Spring Awakening And Funny girl, will direct production.
The renewal will take place in a Shubert theater, with the exact dates and the theater which will be announced on a later date.
The production marks the first revival of Broadway of the musical, which opened its doors on Broadway in 1988 after its beginnings in 1986 in the West End. The show is described as a chess tournament between an American and Soviet chess player, while the two also fight on the woman torn between them.
While the West End Show lasted three years, the book of the program was considerably modified when Chess came to Broadway, where production lasted only two months. Rice wrote the book for the production of London, while the playwright Richard Nelson wrote the revised book for Broadway. Since then, the score has developed a following cult and subsequent productions, which have continued to adapt the book.
Lorin Latarro, who choreographed Waitress In Broadway, the production will choreography.
Michele returns to Broadway after intervening as Fanny Brice Funny girl in Broadway in September 2022 and remaining in the role of one year. THE Joy Star has also created the role of Wendla in Spring Awakening.
Tveit won a Tony Award for its leading role in Red mill and appeared in the last renewal of Sweeney Todd opposite Sutton Foster, in addition to playing in Catch me if you canin the role of Frank Abagnale Jr., and also from the role of Gabe in Next to normal.
Christopher played George Washington in the production of Broadway of HamiltonSeymour in Small horrors shop Off-Broadway and Pirelli in the most recent renewal of Sweeney Todd, Among other roles.
Chess is produced in Broadway by Tom Hulce, Robert Ahrens and the Shubert organization with Creative Partners Productions
