Craig Revel Horwood faces the challenge of Chess, the musical by Melissa Leong

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 ...

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