Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, Nicholas Christopher to Star in Broadway Revival of Chess

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher will star in the first-ever Broadway revival of the musical Chess, set to begin performances this fall. Dates and additional information will be announced at in the coming months.

Tveit (Moulin Rouge!) will play Freddie Trumper, Michele (Funny Girl) is Florence Vassey, and Christopher (Sweeney Todd) is Anatoly Sergievsky.

The story of a Cold War-era chess tournament between an American and a Soviet, Chess has a score by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and a new book by Danny Strong. This production will be directed by Michael Mayer, with choreography by Lorin Latarro and music supervision by Brian Usifer.

Chess was originally released as a concept album in 1984, before having a three-year run in London’s West End, with a book by Rice. A significantly different Broadway production, featuring a book by Richard Nelson, ran for two months in 1988. Strong’s book adaptation, directed by Mayer, premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2018. The musical is best known for the hit pop song, “One Night in Bangkok.”