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Music : Chess (1988 Original Broadway Cast)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0078635770025
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
Label: RCA
Manufacturer: RCA
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: RCA
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Studio: RCA
Sales Rank: 94496
Disc 1:- Prologue
- Story of Chess
- Where I Want to Be
- How Many Women
- Chess Hymn
- Quartet (A Model of Docorum and Tranquilty)
- You Want to Lose Your Only Friend?
- Someone Else's Story
- On Night in Bangkok
- Terrace Duet
- Nobody's Side
- Anthem
- Hungarian Folk Song
- Heaven Help My Heart
- No Contest
- You and I
- I Know Him So Well
- Pity the Child
- Lullaby
- Endgame
- You and I (Reprise)
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Amazon.com:
It was a success in London but a bomb in New York in 1988, but Chess's cult reputation has only grown over the years--quite a feat for a dramatic musical about love and cold war politics at a chess tournament! While Tim Rice's lyrics aren't too shabby, Chess owes it all to the team of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, a.k.a. the BB in Abba. Their score has the drama that makes for good musical theater, and it doesn't shy from canny pop hooks either. "One Night in Bangkok" was a hit in Europe, while Judy Kuhn particularly shines on the poignant "Nobody's Side." Indeed, Chess is full of superb numbers that basically fall into two types: instantly memorable and growing-on-you memorable. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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Rating:  -
First let me say I gave it 1 star because I could not give it none. It's most unfortunate that so much was lost from the original concept. The London cast recording is far more superior than this.
Rating:  -
Chess is the musical Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA wrote with Tim Rice after the disbanding of ABBA. The music is superb. The lytics are witty. Chess was a big hit in London's West End in the mid-1980s. It was a different story when the show moved to Broadway in 1988. The critics hated it. Chess closed almost as quickly as it had opened. Why? For one reason, the soundtrack was of nowhere near the quality of the London/Stockholm recording. New characters were added, and the song ... Read More
Rating:  -
May 24, 1988 -- I will always remember the date I saw the original Broadway production of CHESS. I guess I'm one of the lucky few who actually saw this show at the Imperial, since it only ran for about seven weeks. I was absolutely blown away by the production and the cast.
First, Judy Kuhn is simply one of the greatest live performers I've ever seen. She is not only a stunningly strong singer, but also a fantastic actress. David Carroll and Philip Casnoff were equally is impressive ... Read More
Rating: -
I did my best not to judge this CD against the spectacular London concept album; it is what it is, a watered-down and fuzzied-up version of a devastating original idea. (I admit that when I saw a community theatre version of it I started shaking my head "No" during "I Know Him So Well" and didn't stop until the end. Weird, unnecessary and incoherent changes.)
HOWEVER, seeing the Broadway version made me want to listen to this album. I liked it well enough, though the women were in fact better ... Read More
Rating: -
This is if not my favorite musical, then my favorite modern musical. The music is breathtaking. The lyrics are mostly excellent too. In the liner notes that came with my copy, there is a note that the words to the last song had been changed due to american censorship. The show is European. It's about a chess match between a quiet, tormented Russian and a loud, obnoxious, jingoistic american. He has problems of his own. The singers are all fine.
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