Craig Revel Horwood faces the challenge of Chess, the musical
Staging the musical Chess can be as tricky as the game itself. Inspired by the famous 1972 Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky championship match held in Iceland, lyricist Tim Rice wrote it as a 1984 concept album to music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA. It garnered mixed reviews when it opened in London in ...