Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival! — Page 9

Mary_Poppins said: "Lea just posted a photo of her Broadway debut in Les Miz at the Imperial as a kid, with a Chess playbill on the wall in the background. Full circle.
https://www.instagram.com/leamichele/p/DLU4JK1MX3e/

Also, there's a soundbite of her duetting with Nick on his IG."

That's actually Idina Menzel and Josh Groban from the 2008 Concert at Royal Albert Hall. All the soundbites ive heard them use so far are from that cast recording.

Been trying to add tickets to my cart for 5 minutes. Just spinning

VernonGersch said: "Current waittime on Telecharge is over 1 hour. Kinda nuts"

Yup went on during lunch at noon and have it open out of curiousity and now it's 1:23 still waiting



Estimated waitmore than an hour

Expected arrival time on the website more than an hour

ALL A PR stunt in my eyes as this is not selling out today as the best seats will not be released!

Updated On: 6/25/25 at 01:24 PM

I gave up and called Telecharge directly- the performance/seat I wanted was still available.

Robbie2 said: "VernonGersch said: "Current waittime on Telecharge is over 1 hour. Kinda nuts"

Yup went on during lunch at noon and have it open out of curiousity and now it's 1:23 still waiting



Estimated waitmore than an hour

Expected arrival time on the website more than an hour

ALL A PR stunt in my eyes as this is not selling out today as the best seats will not be released!

"



UPDATE just now

Estimated wait49 minutes

Expected arrival time on the website 2:20 PM

GirlFromOz68 said: "Mary_Poppins said: "Lea just posted a photo of her Broadway debut in Les Miz at the Imperial as a kid, with a Chess playbill on the wall in the background. Full circle.
https://www.instagram.com/leamichele/p/DLU4JK1MX3e/

Also, there's a soundbite of her duetting with Nick on his IG."

That's actually Idina Menzel and Josh Groban from the 2008 Concert at Royal Albert Hall. All the soundbites ive heard them use so far are from that cast recording."

Ugh. Lesson learned: Never listen to music over your phone's speaker at arm's length. It never occurred to me that Nick would post someone else singing so I took it at face value. I was totally ready for a discussion about how this is totally not Lea's vibrato style and why the team or her decided to go the conventional route. Then this ticket buying madness started...

Now that you said it I listened on headphones and yes, that's not even Lea's voice and sounds indeed like Idina's.

I must confess I've never heard Nick before even though people say he's overdue for his big break. But why on earth would he post that without proper credit? Can't find it on his IG anymore so maybe someone called him out.

Lot666 said: "I finally got in exactly 2.5 hours after the alleged 11:00am on-sale time.

I didn't even attempt to make a purchase, as the date I looked at had a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of availability. If you're still waiting in the queue, don't stress; contrary to what the technical shenanigans suggest, actual sales do not appear to be brisk."



Same here 2hours 5 minutes tons of tickets for all performances. Didn't plan on buying today will wait for the mailer-discount code and purchase as we always do this way for the last week of previews as we go that time and find great seats for less!

witchoftheeast2 said: "This is the first time in a while that I didn't feel the urge to immediately purchase tickets during a presale. I'll wait for discount codes too"

I hadn't thought about it, but that's an interesting point. Historically, I have almost always bought tickets ASAP, but this was the first time I found myself feeling no sense of urgency. Perhaps this is because everything is just so expensive these days, and there is rarely any benefit to committing early anymore. I've found that prices and availability can fluctuate quite often and right up until the show date.

Robbie2 said: "...as the best seats will not be released!"

What do you consider 'the best seats'? Do you mean that Row B won't be the front row? or ?

Mary_Poppins said: "GirlFromOz68 said: "Mary_Poppins said: "Lea just posted a photo of her Broadway debut in Les Miz at the Imperial as a kid, with a Chess playbill on the wall in the background. Full circle.
https://www.instagram.com/leamichele/p/DLU4JK1MX3e/

Also, there's a soundbite of her duetting with Nick on his IG."

That's actually Idina Menzel and Josh Groban from the 2008 Concert at Royal Albert Hall. All the soundbites ive heard them use so far are from that cast recording."

Ugh. Lesson learned: Never listen to music over your phone's speaker at arm's length. It never occurred to me that Nick would post someone else singing so I took it at face value. I was totally ready for a discussion about how this is totally not Lea's vibrato style and why the team or her decided to go the conventional route. Then this ticket buying madness started...

Now that you said it I listened on headphones and yes, that's not even Lea's voice and sounds indeed like Idina's.

I must confess I've never heard Nick before even though people say he's overdue for his big break. But why on earth would he post that without proper credit? Can't find it on his IG anymore so maybe someone called him out."

he posted it on his IG stories so it disappears after 24 hours.

the social media people for the show have also used clips from that recording and ive seen others using it too so its clearly not an issue.

Telecharge IT team and/or contractors, getting ready to apply fixes to these problems. They were trained well by the libretto of NERDS.