Full Cast Of Chess Announced!
Find out who is joining Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher
The iconic musical Chess is returning to the main stem in this much-anticipated revival this October at the Imperial Theater and now we have the full cast announced!
With a score by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and musical legend Tim Rice, the show will feature a brand new book from Danny Strong and direction from Michael Mayer and reuniting Sweeney Todd's Tveit and Christopher and adding Funny Girl's Michele to the mix.
Here's Chess full cast!
Aaron Tveit as Freddie Trumper
Lea Michele as Florence Vassey
Nicholas Christopher as Anatoly Sergievsky
Hannah Cruz as Svetlana
Bradley Dean as Molokov
Sean Allan Krill as Walter
Bryce Pinkham as The Arbiter
The ensemble includes: Kyla Louise Bartholomeusz, Daniel Beeman, Shavey Brown, Emma Degerstedt, Casey Garvin, Adam Halpin, Sarah Michele Lindsey, Michael Milkanin, Aleksandr Ivan Pevec, Aliah James, Sydney Jones, Sean MacLaughlin, Sarah Meahl, Ramone Nelson, Fredric Rodriguez Odgaard, Michael Olaribigbe, Katerina Papacostas, Samantha Pollino, Regine Sophia and Katie Webber.
What's the story?
At the heart of the story are ostentatious American Freddie Trumper (Tveit), passionate Russian Anatoly Sergievsky (Christopher), and Florence Vassy (Michelle), Freddie's strong-willed and long-suffering second. Freddie and Anatoly are set to compete in the World Chess Championships, a match that holds a great deal of political tension for not only US and USSR relations but global politics as a whole. This rock opera is certainly complex as the three pawns become entangled in a love-triangle that jeopardizes the tournament..... read more here!
