CHESS in Russia

[Fan123]

Posted: 4/27/20 at 8:18am

For those interested... a few tidbits about the upcoming Russian premiere of CHESS. It was originally planned for 2019
(https://www.broadwayworld.com/russia/article/CHESS-Comes-to-Russia-For-the-First-Time-Ever-20181024) but is now due to premiere in October this year. (Of course, who knows for sure whether mass gatherings will be happening at that point.) I think that this show may have been banned in the USSR for a time, although that may be incorrect.

Anyway, here's a Russian news report on a recent-ish press event. The text below the video, if Google-translated, gives you the words spoken in the video.

https://tvkultura.ru/article/show/article_id/357005

Interesting as well to read that the new production's Svetlana, pop singer Alla Pugacheva, was originally going to play the role in London decades ago. But leaving the USSR for that long would have been regarded as fleeing, and she had a family there, so it was a no-go. Talk about life imitating art. I hadn't heard about that before.

https://moscow-broadway.ru/blog/chess-vip