Bjorn Ulvaeus, Tim Rice - Chess (1988 Original Broadway Cast)
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Artist: Bjorn Ulvaeus, Tim RiceComposer: Benny Andersson
Performer: David Carroll
Performer: Judy Kuhn
Performer: Marcia Mitzman
Performer: Paul Harman
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Prologue
- Story of Chess
- Where I Want to Be
- How Many Women
- Chess Hymn
- Quartet (A Model of Docorum and Tranquilty)
- You Want to Lose Your Only Friend?
- Someone Else's Story
- On Night in Bangkok
- Terrace Duet
- Nobody's Side
- Anthem
- Hungarian Folk Song
- Heaven Help My Heart
- No Contest
- You and I
- I Know Him So Well
- Pity the Child
- Lullaby
- Endgame
- You and I (Reprise)
Free Music Notes for Chess (1988 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Chess musical
Hit: 3 Stars
Chess is the musical Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA wrote with Tim Rice after the disbanding of ABBA. The music is superb. The lytics are witty. Chess was a big hit in London's West End in the mid-1980s. It was a different story when the show moved to Broadway in 1988. The critics hated it. Chess closed almost as quickly as it had opened. Why? For one reason, the soundtrack was of nowhere near the quality of the London/Stockholm recording. New characters were added, and the song sequence was moved around. Furthermore, in the 1980s, America was in a patriotic mood and unwilling to accept a show which portrayed a Russian as a good guy and an American as a bad guy. Chess toured in 1990 and did well on the road. I saw it in Louisville, Kentucky.
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It was a success in London but a bomb in New York in 1988, but Chess's cult reputation has only grown over the years--quite a feat for a dramatic musical about love and cold war politics at a chess tournament! While Tim Rice's lyrics aren't too shabby, Chess owes it all to the team of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, a.k.a. the BB in Abba. Their score has the drama that makes for good musical theater, and it doesn't shy from canny pop hooks either. "One Night in Bangkok" was a hit in Europe, while Judy Kuhn particularly shines on the poignant "Nobody's Side." Indeed, Chess is full of superb numbers that basically fall into two types: instantly memorable and growing-on-you memorable. --Elisabeth VincentelliBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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