CHESS at White Plains Performing Arts Center

http://wppac.com/shows/chess/

Is anyone else going this weekend? I have a ticket for tonight. I've seen other shows there and they've all been of extremely high quality. And the theater is a very easy Metro North ride from Manhattan.

I didn't see their production of "The Little Mermaid", but a friend of mine did and said it was just like a Broadway show. I thought the same about "Sweeney Todd".

"Chess" is one of my favorite scores and I think this production uses a revised book. Looking forward to it!

http://wppac.com/shows/chess/

Updated On: 8/7/15 at 08:17 AM

I'm not a part of the production.

I actually am mostly excited because of how fascinating I think "Chess's" history is. If anyone is interested in all the different versions there have been https://www.squareone.org/Chess/ is an awesome resource. I've combed through it for years and compared its information with various recordings and videos as a fun little hobby. It's kind of like "Showboat": famously re-imagined over and over again with ardent fans of each version. Guess I'm just a musical dork

Nothing there is "like" Broadway. But White Plains is a cute little area. Go to the yogurt place across from the theater. So good.

Apparently this production is a wholesale rewrite of the book setting the show in the Middle East, in an attempt to convey in a more current fashion a rivalry not unlike the Cold War setting of the original. Anatoly is now Iraqi. (I don't get it either. But I've been unable to get my little rewrite -- "One night in Baghdad, and the bombs start falling..." -- out of my head.)

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