The Season for Dreaming

harbek:

arqueete:

whentomorrowcolms:

80s’ musical theatre.

I was like aw man, this post needs more Chess, and then I noticed the bottom left is Chess and felt better.

And then I considered that it’s the Broadway production of Chess and felt a little bad for those people walking out of that theater.

I still feel like Broadway Chess is better than no Chess.

I was gonna come with trivia about what now occupies these theatres, but it’s a mix of Broadway and London ones, and the last one isn’t even a picture of a theatre.

Although I think it’s really funny that the original theatre of Jesus Christ Superstar is now no longer a theatre, but the Times Square Church.

Better than no Chess in the photoset or better than them not getting to see Chess at all (or, God forbid, no Chess in the world)? My first instinct was to argue that Chess might actually be better off if Broadway Chess had never happened… but that’s probably being overdramatic. And obviously I would’ve loved to see it. Partly I’m just bitter because the US keeps getting questionable rewrites of the Broadway version still. Mostly I like making jokes about its failure.

On a side note, I sometimes wonder what Chess would’ve done with itself if it had been a big success on Broadway. Through its short run it narrowly avoided the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, which would’ve made things a little awkward considering it’s supposed to take place in modern day. I probably don’t want to know.

whentomorrowcolms:

80s’ musical theatre.

I was like aw man, this post needs more Chess, and then I noticed the bottom left is Chess and felt better.

And then I considered that it’s the Broadway production of Chess and felt a little bad for those people walking out of that theater.

(via harbek)

Some bad quality photos of “Mountain Duet” from the original London production of Chess.