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CHESS (2025 Broadway Revival) Reviews
 Apr 18 2026, 08:12:05 PM

Aaron, Lea and Nick will be on

Late Night with Seth Meyers

NBC    Monday April 20    12:35/11:35c

 

 


CHESS (2025 Broadway Revival) Reviews
 Apr 17 2026, 04:13:10 PM

Wayman_Wong said: "
By the way, is this the first time some folks have seena Sardi's portrait? These drawings seldom look like their subjects. It's not just Lea."

I've seen them before and I know they have neither been very similar nor proper caricatures for quite some time now. But Lea's is literally more similar to Idina than to herself. Whoever drew it must have realized that.

 


CHESS (2025 Broadway Revival) Reviews
 Apr 16 2026, 07:27:50 PM

GirlFromOz68 said: "Ball of Buttah said: "Lea finally got her Sardi's pic up. And, of course, looks nothing like her 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣.


Anyway what's far more important is how many people from different stages of her career showed up for her. One in the eye for that stupid narrative that nobody likes her. Stephen Mark Lukas, understudy Nick in FG , came down from Boston where the Beauty and the Beast tour is currently playing, to be there.


CHESS (2025 Broadway Revival) Reviews
 Apr 16 2026, 07:04:19 PM

Ball of Buttah said: "Lea finally got her Sardi's pic up. And, of course, looks nothing like her 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣."

Looks like Idina.

Aren't these drawings supposed to be caricatures ?

 


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/26
 Apr 16 2026, 09:14:11 AM

kdogg36 said: "

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With that out of the way - do you not think it is absolutely crazy that Broadway producers sometimes (often, it seems) expect writers to work for free?"

 

Of course I agree. Absolutely everybody involved should be properly paid.

When there are problems the bucket's first stop should be at the producers and investors. After all, they are the ones who set the business up to make a profit, so they


Broadway Poised for Tax Benefit Boost in New York Budget Plan
 Apr 15 2026, 10:31:29 AM

EDSOSLO858 said: "Does this really make much of a difference? It probably just means that musicals lose $3 million less."

It could, just like 2 percent more or less inflation can have an impact on people's behavior.


CHESS 2025 Broadway Cast Recording Thread
 Apr 15 2026, 02:38:27 AM

Lot666 said: "Mary_Poppins said: "Lot666 said: "It irks methat the "Anthem" file on YouTube starts awkwardly in mid-note. Can anyone tell me whetherthe files on other platforms dothis as well?"

For me the YouTube file starts correctly. Very precisely at the beginning though. There was a time when every track on an album had 2 seconds of silence before the music..

Maybe check if your browser/player does some buffering before it starts playing? Do the other tracks work?
"

I appreciate the reply, but it's not a buffering issue. The YouTube file always starts abruptly in the middle of the orchestra note that immediately precedes the first lyric("No man..."). All of the other tracks in the album are fine."


Sorry, sounded to me like you meant just half of the very first note of the instrumental intro is cut off.

But I now may have found the solution.

Are you listening to this one? That has the exact problem you described.:
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJvNrp9bEg&list=RDyMJvNrp9bEg&start_radio=1

Try either this

Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Tim Rice - CHESS the Musical (2025 Broadway Cast Recording) (Full Album) - YouTube

or this

CHESS the Musical (2025 Broadway Cast Recording) - YouTube

 


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/26
 Apr 15 2026, 12:49:28 AM

No,  kdogg36 clearly said: "The authors should get paid before anyone else, including the cast".

Emphasis mine. Now that I pointed out the problem with that the tune is very different:

"I don't think anyone said that?"

"The actors deserve to get paid, and they always get paid"

Also: "they wouldn't have the material and the job if it wasn't for the authors"

True, but this works the othe


Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/26
 Apr 14 2026, 11:55:06 PM

kdogg36 said: "

I watched that video and it is shocking. The authors should get paid before anyone else, including the cast. What can we do to fix this?

You mean, ALW should be paid for the 1000th staging of his stuff before the people who actually work on it and need to pay their bills?

"

 


CHESS 2025 Broadway Cast Recording Thread
 Apr 14 2026, 04:00:43 PM

Lot666 said: "It irks methat the "Anthem" file on YouTube starts awkwardly in mid-note. Can anyone tell me whetherthe files on other platforms dothis as well?"

 

For me the YouTube file starts correctly. Very precisely at the beginning though. There was a time when every track on an album had 2 seconds of silence before the music..

Maybe check if your browser/player does some buffering before it starts playing? D


Leslie manville on audience behavior ..
 Apr 9 2026, 01:23:42 PM

ColorTheHours048 said:
"Sharing that you saw a show with friends or on social media is a vital marketing tool nowadays, like it or not. I’ve had friends tell me that they saw a particular show simply because I posted about it, something they wouldn’t have seen if I hadn’t. I’m hardly an influencer and only share with a small group, but it’s a ripple effect."

 

Yup. Look how e.g. Chess lowers its rather large neon


CHESS 2025 Broadway Cast Recording Thread
 Apr 9 2026, 12:20:23 PM

uncageg said: "I just can't listen to her "Nobody's Side". I am just not into the way she periodically sings ahead of the music. When I saw it in October I thought it might have just been a sound thing but she has continued to do it.."

Seb28 said  "I feel like she doesn't understand the timing of the verses. She hangs on the beat while she should be in between them with the words."


So which one is it? And


CHESS 2025 Broadway Cast Recording Thread
 Apr 9 2026, 11:14:56 AM

GirlFromOz68 said: "As I live in the future I already have it. 😉"

As we will have to wait for the future to move around the globe, can you say something about the album, just to make us more jealous?


CHESS (2025 Broadway Revival) Reviews
 Apr 7 2026, 01:21:20 AM

Chess scored 4 wins at the Broadway Ensemble Awards including Most Outstanding Ensemble.


Just In Time 2.0 - Matthew Morrison
 Apr 5 2026, 04:07:40 PM

lala3 said: "I found the "cringe" factor of his character on Glee mostly trumped up by teen stans of the show who didn't like his character because he crossed one of their faves.

I was a part of the Glee fandom and mostly found them ridiculous and inventing and exaggerating aspects of his character.

Critics also went to town on his character because that's what they do. Some of it was fair, but some of it was just plain derision.

And


CHESS (2025 Broadway Revival) Reviews
 Apr 2 2026, 02:24:48 PM

For the Youtube-averse: Colbert will air Nobody's Side again tomorow.


Forbes: Broadway Meets Wall Street As One Show Finances Another
 Mar 31 2026, 03:06:04 PM

Well, at least this strategy got them an article in Forbes and a thread on BWW.
 


CHESS (2025 Broadway Revival) Reviews
 Mar 29 2026, 02:55:59 PM

Lea will be on the Kelly Clarkson Show on Monday March 30.

 

AFAIK this was taped February 9. After Bryce was announced on KC I thought they had somehow scratched Lea's segment, but here we go.


Lea Michele v Caissie Levy Tony Race
 Mar 20 2026, 11:43:21 PM

GirlFromOz68 said: "

that is really not true re Lea. you may not be a fan of her performance but she is giving an acting performance and not just singing. as has been mentioned before she is playing Florence as very tightly wound , holding a lot in as she is a more restrained character than others she has played before. Apparently if Lea isn't playing an extrovert like Rachel or Fanny shes not acting to some people.

Lea talked about her take on the role exte


CHESS 2025 Broadway Cast Recording Thread
 Mar 19 2026, 04:30:26 PM

Billboard interview with Lea about the recording:

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lea-michele-nobodys-side-chess-track-premiere-interview-1236202185/


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