The run closed June 25, 1988
- Opened
- April 28, 1988
- Closed
- June 25, 1988
- Performances
- 68
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 185th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Chess 2 more that season
| 2003 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival · Peter Flynn | 1 perf. |
| 2025 | Imperial Theatre Revival |
Who was in it29 named
John Aller
Neal Ben Ari
Suzanne Briar
Steve Clemente
Katherine Lynne Condit
David Cryer
Gina Gallagher
Deborah Geneviere
Kurt Johns
Eric Johnson
Paul Laureano
Rosemary Loar
Judy Mclane
Kip Niven
Alex Santoriello
Wysandria Woolsey
13 of these 29 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
John Herrera Anatoly Sergievsky
Carolee Carmello Florence Vassy
Stephen Bogardus Freddie Trumper
David Hurst Molokov
Barbara Walsh Svetlana Sergievsky
Gregory Jbara Walter
Ken Ard The Arbiter
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Trevor Nunn
- Choreographer
- Lynne Taylor-Corbett
- Producer
- Shubert Organization; 3 Knights Ltd.; Robert Fox Ltd.
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 6 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Chess, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
- The British hit Chess opened in 1988 in a revised version, but the Tim Rice musical did not repeat its London success in New York. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 184
- The last popular song to come from a Broadway show just might be “One Night in Bangkok” from Chess, which opened in 1988. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 203
- She Loves Me (1993 revival). Kuhn also played Florence in Chess (1988) Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 219
- Bennett also withdrew from the 1986 London rock musical Chess just prior to rehearsals. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 278
- Subsequent musicals include La Cage aux Folles (1983), Merlin (1983), Teddy and Alice (1987), Chess (1988), the 1989 revival of Gypsy, the 1990 revival of Of, Kay!, Annie 2 (1990), Nick and Nora (1991), The Secret Garden (1991), and Annie Warbucks (1993). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1087
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- Which of the 6 recordings of Chess document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.