#give me a month and a budget and i’ll fix the narrative incoherence and plot holes

[cosmicdebaser]

chess the musical is like the theatre version of ‘i can fix him’. the show is nearly 40 years old. every single production seems to fundamentally misunderstand it in some way. yet somehow every single chess enjoyer listens to it once and becomes convinced that if you were allowed to stage chess the musical your version would actually be the Best and Most Correct and you actually understand it better than anyone else who’s staged it before