Chess 2025 — Page 3

GirlFromOz68 said: "So Sweaty is reporting that Chess is taking the St James Theatre after Sunset Blvd and that both Lea & Ramin are doing it, as well as Bradley Dean, who was Molokov in both the DC & NYC concerts of this version of the show.

If he's right I'm a bit surprised they are going for as big a theatre as the St James, I mean I get it to some extent as they can sell it as Lea & Ramin reuniting after the success of Funny Girl but Chess is a very different type of show to Funny Girl."

Sweaty vs the rumor in the Evita thread that it’s Evita’s theater. Unless this is a limited fall run and that takes it spring 2026.

Updated On: 1/21/25 at 09:33 AM

OuttaTowner said: "I’d like to see Jeremy Jordan or Colton Ryan have a whack at Freddy. Maybe Isaac Cole Powell?"

Jeremy Jordan is the only of these three that could have a rock voice necessary for “Pity The Child”, but even then, I feel like it would shred his voice 8x week.

Shouty man says this is on indefinite postponement.

As recently as last week, Broadway marketing agencies were working on pitches for this, so if it is postponed it happened very recently.

GirlFromOz68 said: "Kad said: "As recently as last week, Broadway marketing agencies were working on pitches for this, so if it is postponed it happened very recently."

I wonder if - if it's true - and the sweaty one said economy related (and Next to Normal too) if its about what happened over the weekend with tariffs. I saw a video from a guy who has a construction business today who said the costs of lumber for his business would nearly double if the tariffs happened so maybe it's those sort of costs that could be driving this if it happens.

Also Lea's post was just on Friday. So maybe its just a rumour because of everything that was going on this weekend.

Damnit if this is true."

Tariffs on hold for 30 days. Trudeau decided to talk.

Lea said announcements. That did not suggest jumping out of Chess - it's also not sweaty's intel - his intel is economic reasons aka likely nervous investors in the current economy.

Her other announcements could be an album our a tour before Chess. People should stop jumping to conclusions about Lea leaving a show she's been committed to since pre FG (she was supposed to do the December 2022 concert BEFORE she got FG but had to pull out due to her FG schedule once she was doing the show and Lena Hall stepped in) with a director she's been working with since she was 14 years old through 2, now 3 shows.

We don't even know if Sweaty is right, but his intel had NOTHING to do with Lea herself. He's made it very clear he's not a Lea fan so if it was related to her you would bet your life he would say so.

If you have super secret intel on why Lea would drop out of a show she's committed to (and whatever her flaws she is loyal) and what show and when and how she is supposedly dropping out for please do share! Otherwise maybe we wait to see if the tiktok intel is true about economic reasons putting it on hold or if the show is going ahead as planned as someone else said they were just last week taking pitches for marketing.

Updated On: 2/3/25 at 09:58 PM

mitchern said: "It's not like they're going to fix the book, but I'd still love to see it.

For what it's worth...not that the show is confirmed as going forward or that Ramin Karimloo will be part of the cast...he did say on his YT channel while still doing FG that there was a project he was likely going to do because he liked the changes made to the book. Most of the comments and those of his guests (I believe they were Will Swenson and Andrew Kober), the show in question was Chess, although Ramin didn't confirm one way or the other. I think it's worth seeing to just hear the great singing. :)

No. Pretty sure it was Chess since he had already done the show in Japan in 2020, and concerts at Kennedy Center (2018) and the Broadhurst (2022). He specifically talked about changes to the book in the video, which is what everyone seems to talk about when discussing Chess. Pirates is being "modernized," but there isn't any real chatter about the book of the show.

Tim Rice says Chess is “coming back to Broadway, believe it or not, this autumn.”



https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/feb/11/stage-musicals-should-embrace-use-of-surtitles-says-lyricist-tim-rice

rburton66 said: "Tim Rice says Chess is“coming back to Broadway, believe it or not, this autumn.”



https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/feb/11/stage-musicals-should-embrace-use-of-surtitles-says-lyricist-tim-rice"

I hate to say this, but I fear that this interview may have been conducted BEFORE the producers put the show on indefinitie hiatus.

I dunno about indefinite. The latest I'm hearing is that they've done the crunching and discovered they're too far in to pull back, so it's fall or never.

Any updates on this?

I know one of the prominent rumors is that the show would take the St. James after Sunset. Now, with Sunset closing...and another rumor that Queen Of Versailles is going there...anything new on the Chess front?

DCS said: "I thought QOV was rumored to be taking the Palace Theatre. Glengarry is a limited run closing in June."

The Lost Boys has been announced for the Palace in the spring of 2026, so whatever plays after Glengarry Glen Ross will have to be another limited run.

Updated On: 2/27/25 at 08:52 PM