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
Kyle Stormes
Gilgamesh Taggett and Ensemble
Kyle Stormes
Amanda Renee Baker, Gilgamesh Taggett, and John Cormier
Kyle Stormes
Amanda Renee Baker and John Cormier
Kyle Stormes
Amanda Renee Baker and Ensemble
Kyle Stormes
Amanda Renee Baker and Ensemble
Kyle Stormes
Victoria Dieck, Amanda Renee Baker, and Casey O’Donnell
Kyle Stormes
The cast of Chess
Kyle Stormes
Andrew Hendrick, Ruby Day, Conor McGiffin, So Young Jeon, John Cormier, and Amanda Renee Baker
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.
The trend of the year was authenticity: artists dressed their best, rather than chasing the microtrends that otherwise dominated the fashion ecosystem offstage.
