NewsChess Like Never Before! See Pics From a New Staging, Setting the Action in the Present Day Middle EastChess, the 1980s rock musical that played London and subsequently Broadway, began performances at White Plains Performing Arts Center on August 7 for a run through August 9.
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Krissie Fullerton
August 07, 2015
"In this production of Chess," according to press notes, "the ancient game becomes a metaphor for romantic rivalries, competitive gamesmanship, political power-plays and international intrigues. From one match to another, the players, lovers, politicians, and spies manipulate and are manipulated to the pulse of a monumental rock score by ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with book by Richard Nelson and lyrics by Tim Rice."
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Chess Like Never Before! See Pics From a New Staging, Setting the Action in the Present Day Middle East
Chess Like Never Before! See Pics From a New Staging, Setting the Action in the Present Day Middle East
Chess, the 1980s rock musical that played London and subsequently Broadway, began performances at White Plains Performing Arts Center on August 7 for a run through August 9.
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Amanda Renee Baker
Kyle Stormes
Gilgamesh Taggett, Amanda Renee Baker, John Cormier, So Young Jeon, Conor McGiffin, Ruby Day, and Andrew Hendrick
Kyle Stormes
Conor McGiffin
Kyle Stormes
Conor McGiffin
Kyle Stormes
April Elle Nuovo, Victoria Dieck, So Young Jeon, Casey Sacco, and Michelle Morris
The cast is headed by Amanda Renee Baker as Florence with John Cormier and Conor McGiffin as well as by Allison Butler, Ruby Day, Andrew Hendrick, Gilgamesh Taggett and So Young Jeon, with John Cedric Anderson, Bryan Campo, James Caposito, Carly Dieck, Victoria Dieck, Nashard Shawndell Gales, Daisy Guevara, Sarah Heinzmann, Tyler Henson, Nick LeMay, Michelle Morris, Elodie Lucinda Mamie Morss, April Nuovo, Casey O’Donnell, Simona Persampieri, Casey Sacco, Sam Stein, Kat Vaccaro, Bjorn Van den Berghe, Samantha Alicandri, Haleigh Brown and Lielle Kaidar.
Next year, Carnegie Hall's house band will perform Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, unfinished works by Schubert, and the final concert of Conductor Bernard Labadie.
