Chess 2025
Dec 25
2024, 02:02:50 AM
She said in May at the Met Ball that she was still attached to the same project but that she wanted a break after FG as that was a draining show and she was then pregnant and that the people involved with the show were very well aware of all of this. Doesn't sound like she's dropped out of the show at all, just delayed to have her daughter and have some family time post pregnancy but I guess we'll find out in the next six months.
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Chess 2025
Dec 24
2024, 07:43:29 PM
jagman106 said: "Adam Pascal was in a concert version of Chess in I think, 2005? His rendition of "Pity the Child" was the best I ever heard, and I only heard a recording of it. I'd pay a small fortune to hear him sing it live."
Adam Pascal was indeed fabulous in the 2008 London concert version of Chess and if he was 10 years younger I would say sign him up now but at 54 he's aged out of the role. '
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Chess 2025
Dec 23
2024, 02:58:50 PM
You heard wrong but to be fair I think people got confused between Jessica playing the role at MUNY and this incoming Chess production.
In this Michael Mayer production Lea is Florence and it appears she was attached before she even did Funny Girl. Lena Hall confirmed this in a comment on TikTok earlier this year when she said she only played Florence at the NYC Concert in December 2022 because Lea had to pull out of the concert.
So timeline line seems to be the C
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Broadway Rumors/Whispers
Jul 11
2024, 05:24:58 AM
"This would actually make me happy, as i'd much prefer Lena Hall over Lea in the role"
Lena Hall said on tiktok in the comments on someone else posting about Chess a few months ago that she only did the Chess concert in 2022 because Lea was not available. Lea was apparently booked to do it but had to drop out. I assume this means Michael Maher asked her to do it in early 2022 (with a view to her doing it as her return to Broadway) bef
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Broadway Rumors/Whispers
Jul 10
2024, 09:24:26 PM
Newbie here so hi.
Chess is still alive. Lea gave an interview to Marc Malkin at the Met Ball 2024 about her still being signed to the same show they chatted about at the 2023 Met Ball and that was Chess.
We don't know whether it will come in 24/25 or 25/26 season but it is coming at this stage from Lea's comments. Also Tim Rice was doing a bit of a "concert" tour in the UK earlier this year, chatting about his career in between people singing his songs and apparently he said in April that Chess was returning to Broadway next year so according to Lea & Tim it's happening.
Seeing as Ramin (who was Michael Maher's favoured Anatoly since the first concert series of this version back in 2018 and again in NYC in 2022 and especially since he and Lea had such fabulous chemistry in Funny Girl) is doing Pirates of Penzance from April to June 2025 he won't be available if they come in for this season before April so maybe they will hold it if he is still interested or they will need to find a new Anatoly which won't be easy. Just not Josh Groban, please. Great voice but wooden and had zero chemistry with Lea's fictional mother Idina when they did it in London in 2008.
So we'll see which season it comes in but at this stage, still happening from those who know more than we do.
https://x.com/Variety/status/1787603823281779146
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