Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!- Page 18
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!
Understudy Joined: 2/10/18
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#425
Posted: 9/2/25 at 7:33pm
According to Emma Degerstedt she and Samantha Pollino will cover the female leads, no news on who is who.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#426
Posted: 9/2/25 at 7:35pm
I believe Emma is covering Lea.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#427
Posted: 9/2/25 at 7:41pm
I don't remember the last time I saw a David Rockwell set that was interesting or impressive.
Featured Actor Joined: 3/19/08
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#428
Posted: 9/2/25 at 8:01pm
RippedMan said: "I don't remember the last time I saw a David Rockwell set that was interesting or impressive."
I loved his Tony winning work on She Loves Me and also liked Side Show revival and I thought his work on Pirates from this last season was fun.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#429
Posted: 9/2/25 at 9:38pm
Maybe Daniel Beeman as U/S Freddie? He has a phantastic voice but but I'm not sure if he's the right guy acting wise.
And Hannah isn't first cover Florence after all?
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#430
Posted: 9/2/25 at 9:45pm
Mary_Poppins said: "Maybe Daniel Beeman as U/S Freddie? He has a phantastic voice but but I'm not sure if he's the right guy acting wise.
And Hannah isn't first cover Florence after all?"
I was wondering about Daniel too.
Those other girls are understudies, that doesn't mean Hannah isn't the standby.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#431
Posted: 9/2/25 at 9:45pm
Mary_Poppins said: "Maybe Daniel Beeman as U/S Freddie? He has a phantastic voice but but I'm not sure if he's the right guy acting wise.
And Hannah isn't first cover Florence after all?"
I feel like Lea would never allow it for fear of a reverse Beanie Manuevor on her. Hannah's voice is pretty amazing.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#432
Posted: 9/2/25 at 9:47pm
suzcap said: "According to EmmaDegerstedt she andSamantha Pollino will cover the female leads, no news on who is who."
According to Samantha’s TikTok , she is the understudy for both Florence and Svetlana.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/22
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#433
Posted: 9/2/25 at 9:52pm
GirlFromOz68 said: "Mary_Poppins said: "Maybe Daniel Beeman as U/S Freddie? He has a phantastic voice but but I'm not sure if he's the right guy acting wise.
And Hannah isn't first cover Florence after all?"
I was wondering about Daniel too.
Those other girls are understudies, that doesn't mean Hannah isn't the standby."
A stand by will be backstage without a nightly role onstage. If she had to go on but was already in another role onstage, there would be a trickledown effect of other coverage being activated and more chaos than anyone would submit to. Svetlana is likely just Svetlana in this.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#434
Posted: 9/2/25 at 10:07pm
BorisTomashevsky said: "
A stand by will be backstage without a nightly role onstage. If she had to go on but was already in another role onstage, there would be a trickledown effect of other coverage being activated and more chaos than anyone would submit to. Svetlana is likely just Svetlana in this."
You probably meant Cascade Effect. Trickle Down is mostly used as a dishonest excuse for giving rich people more taxpayer money.
Anyway, I seem to remember that other shows did set up their casting for exactly this effect. Apparently, sometimes having the best possible ersatz for a lead is more important than everything else.
Understudy Joined: 2/10/18
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#435
Posted: 9/2/25 at 10:08pm
What Mmma wrote on her Instagram
"I get to do broadway with my bestie AND we get to cover the female leads together 🥰 pinch meee pleaseee"
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#436
Posted: 9/2/25 at 10:17pm
TheatreFan4 said: "Mary_Poppins said: "Maybe Daniel Beeman as U/S Freddie? He has a phantastic voice but but I'm not sure if he's the right guy acting wise.
And Hannah isn't first cover Florence after all?"
I feel like Lea would never allow it for fear of a reverse Beanie Manuevor on her. Hannah's voice is pretty amazing."
it would be nice if we could go a day without pitching women against each other.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#437
Posted: 9/2/25 at 10:20pm
GirlFromOz68 said: "No surprise at all that Bradley, Sean and Bryce are continuing. Casey Garvin is the Anatoly understudy."
Love Casey, but I feel like he would be a better Freddie understudy. I feel like Shavey Brown would be the better option (which is not to say he won’t - I can’t imagine having just one U/S) because Casey (as far as I know) is NOT a bass/baritone and has that boyish look.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#438
Posted: 9/2/25 at 10:20pm
Just using Funny Girl as an example there were multiple covers of various people in the ensemble who weren't the main cover. eg Julie was both standby and alternate and Ephie was the understudy. Ramin had a standby and two understudies.
let's wait and see.
Understudy Joined: 2/10/18
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#439
Posted: 9/2/25 at 10:27pm
GirlFromOz68 said: "TheatreFan4 said: "Mary_Poppins said: "Maybe Daniel Beeman as U/S Freddie? He has a phantastic voice but but I'm not sure if he's the right guy acting wise.
And Hannah isn't first cover Florence after all?"
I feel like Lea would never allow it for fear of a reverse Beanie Manuevor on her. Hannah's voice is pretty amazing."
it would be nice if we could go a day without pitching women against each other.
"
It is so tiring.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#440
Posted: 9/2/25 at 11:16pm
I'd like to note though that in this case the pitching women against each other is just a welcome byproduct. The main intention is picking on LM, plain and simple.
Understudy Joined: 2/10/18
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#441
Posted: 9/2/25 at 11:31pm
and that is tiring too.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#442
Posted: 9/2/25 at 11:41pm
Mary_Poppins said: "I'd like to note though that in this case the pitching women against each other is just a welcome byproduct. The main intention is picking on LM, plain and simple."
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#443
Posted: 9/2/25 at 11:56pm
malcs98 said: "Birdie Boy said: "Ragtime at LCT still has the same director as well as Cassie levy. Two reasons people shouldn’t expect some big improvement from city center."
Well there is one tiny improvement for LCT, that nobody has actually mentioned and it’s that David Korins is doing the new scenic design."
I wish Korins was the set designer for Chess not a fan of Rockwell's sets! Also, who's this costume designer Tom Broecker , SNL? Not impressed but we'll see?
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#444
Posted: 9/3/25 at 12:06am
Chess Twitter says Emma Degerstedt Swing, Samantha Pollino Ensemble.
Is there a way to turn this auto formatting off?
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#445
Posted: 9/3/25 at 12:47am
GirlFromOz68 said: "
it would be nice if we could go a day without pitching women against each other."
I'm not pitting them against each other, Lea just has a horrible ass attitude and I very much feel like that that is the reality of the situation that her divadom would never allow her to be overshadowed by her understudy which would happen if Hannah went on for her.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#446
Posted: 9/3/25 at 1:25am
Aah, the **** stirring worked. Let's do more of it.
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#447
Posted: 9/3/25 at 1:26am
How does Lea have a horrible attitude? Are people still going all the way back to glee?? That was literally a decade ago, move on people. It seemed like the year she was in Funny Girl, she was professional, nice, and had a stellar attendance record. She also replaced so how much of an ego can she have?
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#448
Posted: 9/3/25 at 1:48am
Every time this happens I'm tempted to write my Magnum Opus about how 90% of these diva stories don't even add up. But that would turn this thread into an epic mess.
Understudy Joined: 10/6/12
Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!#449
Posted: 9/3/25 at 2:04am
Mary_Poppins said: "Every time this happens I'm tempted to write my Magnum Opus about how 90% of these diva stories don't even add up. But that would turn this thread into an epic mess."
It already is.
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