#broadway chess

[janus-jekyll-art]

This sketch is pretty old, but idk why the picture is so low quality. It’s a redraw of a Broadway chess the musical promotion image. Maybe I’ll redraw this again at some point.

[like-this-post-if-you]

Like this post if you enjoy musicals.

[frosty-fern]

Them ❤️

[pureanonofficial]

The first preview for Carrie the musical and the opening night of Chess on Broadway were the same day of April 28, 1988.

I can only imagine the psychic damage poor Anders Eljas—who orchestrated both, who has never orchestrated a Broadway show since, probably from the Trauma—endured that day.

[golden-geeks-art]

Something something chess metaphors something something toxic yaoi something something I'll clean this up and finish it later

[sic-vita]

Lance-Guinevere // Arthur-Guinevere

"your husband doesn't think of you as his wife" // "we're business partners"

What are we doing? How do we end up in the same destructive cycles? What are ways that we can actually communicate and give each other space and time and love?”

"That search for love is so necessary and desperate to this plot," says Donica. "And that is to me what this whole show is about. How three people's exploration of love ultimately can bring down an entire kingdom if you let it. Once he's able to express that love even if it's a betrayal of someone else that he loves, he actually is able to grow into his humanity."

(Jordan Donica, 2023)

for @thecandleinthemirror

and thanks @formulaonedirection for the music inspo, and @badsalmonella for the jordan quotes!

[a-wild-dakkel]

love musicals with radically different incarnations and/or lots of cut songs so i can mix and match the ultimate version myself

[haveyouseenthismusical]

[ferzin]

don't ask unnecessary questions. i promise i wasn't drugged while drawing him... maybe...

actually i was just joking about trumper wearing dresses, but — as it usually does — it got wild. so here's the best drama queen of chess! :)

(imagining freddie wearing some feminine things for fun also helps ease my dysphoria... love this eccentric boy so much)

[music-interpretation-review]

Link to playlist of contestants

[libraryfag]

Often when transitioning from a concept album to a broadway musical, LPs will take a hormone which decreases their disco levels.

[walterdecourceys]

chess broadway script has got to be the funniest chess script just objectively. anatoly eats yogurt during a chess match (this is the catalyst for the whole plot). freddie misses two games because he's too busy having sex. florence and anatoly are in an airport closet for a bit. molokov has a wife. walter sells freddie's feet pics. it even passes the bechdel test

[frosty-fern]

There’s no deal partner

[lystful]

My beloved-

[officialfreddietrumper]

Okay, but if you imagine The Interview, with the questions and comments actually being Freddie towards himself??

-Here we are face to face once again.

Considering the last time they saw each other, Freddie not only lost the championship, but lost his temper and consequently Florence as well. Freddie might be coming into the Interview as more in a position of power (as he references in ONIB), but that doesn’t mean he’s ecstatic to have this discussion.

-Has being homeless affected your game? No, by a home, I mean real home- the place where your family is.

This song is before PTC, but once you get the reveal- this line just breaks me. Freddie is homeless, by his own definition. Father abandoned, mother uncaring. And at this point in the show, he’s truly alone.

- What are your latest political aims?

Freddie’s here on behalf of Global- just another pawn ♟️ in the game of Chess. What *are* his political aims in the show? In Act One, he’s staunchly anti-communist/Russian, but where does he stand now?

- Your anti-Russian crusade, has it worked?

Clearly, it hasn’t. Anatoly won the championship. Anatoly won Florence.

- What is your true motivation? That is something we all want to know.

For a lot of chess fans, Freddie is a simple character. He’s a jerk. A misogynistic asshole chess phenom. But throughout the musical, and depending on the version/actor, there’s hints that there is more to Freddie. And Chess, as a concept, can literally have character motivations and backstories change from book to book. So, what exactly *is* Freddie’s true motivation? Hard to say!

- Here we see a man under great pressure. Two fights to fight, yet he could not look fresher.

I mean- look at him!! White Suit Freddie my beloved. And he is under pressure. He’s Walter’s pawn, a fallen King.

-Chess and politics, I take my hat off to any champion who can pull that off.

Freddie was crap at balancing the politics and the game itself. He’s a chess player. He’s a champion. I just don’t really ever think that he was in it for the political aspect. Maybe in some versions, I guess? I’m still exploring the Chess Multiverse, but generally, I really think Freddie tells us. He played, because he loved chess. He used being a champion as a way to try and get some of the love he didn’t get growing up. The attention. All just for chess- not politics.