Talk:Chess (musical)

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"Chess-Baltimore, for instance, will open in March 2004 with a strong cast and powerful adaptation. It may well become the definitive Chess."

Well, March 2004 has come and gone. Can something be said about Chess-Baltimore in a perfect or past tense now? GTBacchus 01:23, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

A little late, and I didn't say that much. I read the synopsis ([1]), and it didn't seem to incorporate anything other than the Broadway version. I read a review ([2]), and it didn't seem to deem it the definitive anything. -- Jao 10:28, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)

I changed the comment "It is occasionally produced by regional theatrical companies in the US", as I live in the UK, and I've seen it performed by local companies here several times. --MockTurtle 23:56, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Changes I made this morning:

-Changed reference from Stockholm being a "third" version (it's more like a seventh) to a "new" version.
-Added songlist for Stockholm version.
-Added Danish Tour recording w/ songlist and cast.
-Added a production history for the show. --Cadriel 18:03, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite

I am about to do a complete rewrite. I hope no one freaks out! I think the article will be much improved, BUT it still has a serious problem with citing sources and avoiding a gossipy broadway-insider tone. I am attempting to remove as much of that tone as possible. The other point of the rewrite is just to get the article better organized - moving the production history section before the endless list of recordings, and so on. --Dmz5 18:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Just to be clear, the vast majority of what I did was rearranging stuff that was already here - the only rewriting I did was shortening the Broadway plot summary and removing ~10 sentences of the "Elaine Paige gave a truly phenomenal performance" variety. I also added the quotations attributed to Robin Wagner, which I will source properly at some point in the near future.--Dmz5 00:31, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Shifted the page into chronological ordered, replaced CD listings with show listings, and highlighted which was recorded. Split Concept and London into sepearate sections, and added London synopsis. Added complete broadway song listing.Loobyloo 01:19, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Names

Could someone who knows the story add the names to the plot synopsis? "The American" and "The Russian" is unnecessary and confusing, as it appears they do have names. -R. fiend 03:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

On the original concept album, these characters were known only as "The American" and "The Russian". It was only when the score was expanded into a stage version that these characters got the names of "Freddie Trumper" and "Anatoly Sergievsky". --Kyoko 04:41, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I see. Thanks. Does the article make that clear? I skimmed most of it. -R. fiend 17:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

The recent addtion of the school based production detail has cleaned up, due to duplication of song list from London/Danish production, and bias removed, although I am undecided as to whether as much detail about an amateur production should be included?