CHESS (2025 Broadway Revival) Reviews — Page 14

https://youtu.be/JyzcluMpLoM?si=8z_IzK7v6fFx9npH
 

Lea's "My Life in Theater" from Playbill. Didn't think I'd hear something new, but good to know more about her time as an understudy/cover and her Anne Frank play. She talked more about her Jewish heritage and lineage. (Not to open the can of worms about her "not" being technically Jewish).

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

inception said: "Here's a plot forthe writers of Elsbeth, free of charge:

A super annoying British YouTube vlogger is found dead in Shubert Alley with multiple wounds just after the parade had passed them by on Thanksgiving. It's fiction, & absolutely in this reality the paradegoes right by Shubert Alley. But there seem to be no witnessses. In a stunning denouement, Elsbeth reveals

"

Hi folks - MickeyJo here commenting from my decade old BWW message board account having accidentally stumbled onto this.

Sorry not to have liked this Chess revival, and sorry I'm not easier to avoid, but this is demonstrably unhinged.

Thanks to the 1 person who appears to have called this out, and no thanks to the moderators who decided this was fine to leave up.

I suspect that I'm missing something in this story. Would anyone care to fill in the blanks? MickeyJo perhaps?

kdogg36 said: "I suspect that I'm missing something in this story. Would anyone care to fill in the blanks? MickeyJo perhaps?"

No idea, could not call out something I never saw.

Leaving his message up just makes things confusing.

GirlFromOz68 said: "suzcap said: "kdogg36 said: "I suspect that I'm missing something in this story. Would anyone care to fill in the blanks? MickeyJo perhaps?"

No idea, could not call out something I never saw.

Leaving his message up just makes things confusing."

I think the fact that Mickey Jo reposted what he was objecting to ( someone imagining him being murdered supposedly as a joke) shows what his problem was.

I might disagree with his opinion of Chess but I agree with him that post was inappropriate."

Got that part, confusing or vague was that it was implied it was up for a long time and people were ignoring it or maybe alright with it or what even started such a conversation t begin with. 

in other news, im hoping as its the 10th in Australia in just over an hour that the Chess cast recording will drop into my Apple Music while I sleep so I can listen to it as I drive to work.

inception said: "So strange that someonesays "super annoying British YouTube vlogger" and she immediately assumes they're speaking about her?

Oh, please. At least stand by your original post instead of trying to gaslight people. The discussion in posts #89, 90, 91, and 92 was specifically about a specific British Youtube vlogger's review. Then you jump in at post 93 proposing an episode of Elsbeth where a British YouTube vlogger is murdered by the Broadway community for being annoying...but it's strange that anyone would assume you were talking about the British YouTube vlogger who was being discussed in the previous four posts?

Updated On: 4/9/26 at 09:49 AM

The post named no specific individual and was clearly a spoof of CBS television program Elsbeth.

Hi everyone, I'm back in the city for a weekend later this month.  If Lost Boys is opening on a Sunday, is there potential that the lead cast members in Chess will be out of the the Sunday matinee to attend the opening?  Is Sunday a generally good time to see Aaron, Lea, and Nicholas in the show?

wewdie said: "Hi everyone, I'm back in the city for a weekend later this month. If Lost Boys is opening on a Sunday, is there potential that the lead cast members in Chess will be out of the the Sunday matinee to attend the opening? Is Sunday a generally good time to see Aaron, Lea, and Nicholas in the show?"

Lea has a scheduled absence on the Saturday matinee but none of them are listed as out for the Sunday matinee.

 

Best advert for the show:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW_48gagUym/?igsh=cHV4c3B0eDZuemph

I mean, after watching that...how can peeps NOT watch the show?

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

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXNUGchCMzr/?igsh=MWZoOXIzMXM1bzU2bA=="

well she's not the first for that to happen.  Pretty sure from the hairstyle I know which photo they used but yeah. 

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.  

Also nice to see Judy Kuhn.

Updated On: 4/16/26 at 06:28 PM