Productions3 on Broadway
| 1988 | Imperial Theatre Original. April 28, 1988 · Trevor Nunn | 68 performances |
| 2003 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival. September 22, 2003 · Peter Flynn | 1 performances |
| 2025 | Imperial Theatre Revival. November 16, 2025 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 6 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature39 passages
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. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p184
The last popular song to come from a Broadway show just might be “One Night in Bangkok” from Chess, which opened in 1988. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p203
She Loves Me (1993 revival). Kuhn also played Florence in Chess (1988) book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p219
Bennett also withdrew from the 1986 London rock musical Chess just prior to rehearsals. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p278
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). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1087
Mackintosh model, however, has not proved easy to follow. Others who have pursued similar approaches in musicals have generally failed to recoup the staggering costs of their Broadway investments-the case, for example, with Chess ($6 million), Carrie (1988, $8 million), and even such Lloyd \\/ebber shows as Starlight E… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p668
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