Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!- Page 18

[suzcap]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 7:35pm

I believe Emma is covering Lea. 

[RippedMan]

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. 

[DCS]

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.

[Mary_Poppins]

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?

[GirlFromOz68]

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.  

[TheatreFan4]

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. 

[mshalo18]

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. 

[BorisTomashevsky]

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. 

Updated On: 9/2/25 at 09:52 PM

[Mary_Poppins]

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.

 

Updated On: 9/2/25 at 10:07 PM

[suzcap]

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"

[GirlFromOz68]

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.

 

[quizking101]

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.

[GirlFromOz68]

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.

[suzcap]

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.  

[Mary_Poppins]

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.

 

[suzcap]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 11:31pm

and that is tiring too.

[GirlFromOz68]

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."

I was going to say that but changed my mind as I wasn't in the mood to be attacked and belittled.

 

 

Updated On: 9/2/25 at 11:41 PM

[Robbie2]

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? 

[Mary_Poppins]

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?

Updated On: 9/3/25 at 12:06 AM

[TheatreFan4]

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.

[Mary_Poppins]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 1:25am

Aah, the **** stirring worked. Let's do more of it.

[Birdie Boy]

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?

[Mary_Poppins]

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.

[bway1430]

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.