Aaron Tveit will be back on Broadway this fall in a revival of the classic musical Chess and he’s teasing the new approach they’re taking with this production.
Chess, which features music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and EGOT winner Tim Rice, is the iconic musical where power and passion collide, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. It’s America versus Russia at the World Chess Championship, where the espionage and romance are as complicated and exhilarating as the game itself. For the two players and the woman torn between them, everything—personal, professional, and political—is at risk… and nobody’s rules are the same.
Aaron is starring opposite Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher in the musical, which begins performances on October 15.
“It’s being presented as almost a concert evening,” Aaron told Entertainment Weekly. “There’s real book scenes and everything, but it’s in the sense that we are all players putting forward this piece and everyone can come and go out of scenes. A lot of people are going to be on stage at the same time. They’re trying to set up the political era between 1979 and 1983 and focus on the geopolitical tensions between Russia and the U.S. The music is so amazing, and if it was only that, I would say, come sit in the seats because you’re going to have a great night. But hopefully we’ll pull this little magic trick where we’re also talking about things politically that holds a mirror up to our society today.”
Aaron gets to perform the hit song “One Night in Bangkok,” which became a Billboard pop hit back in the 1980s.
Listen to a snippet of his rendition now!
