Chess the Musical

Chess the Musical’s legendary rock-opera score and powerful story of conflict and love has astounded audiences across the globe. This ‘Grand Master Of A Show’ (Newsweek), is now set to tour Australia in a gripping concert-style production backed by a full orchestra and featuring the London West-End orchestrations.

Set during the height of the Cold War, two of the world’s greatest chess players, one American, one Russian, find themselves pawns of their own governments’ sparring in the turbulent East-West political arena.

As the game climaxes and stakes rise, Florence Vassey, a Hungarian-born refugee finds herself caught in the hurricane between the two grandmasters, in a triangle of power and love.

With music by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus (ABBA), book and lyrics by Tim Rice, Chess the Musical is arguably one of the most memorable scores ever heard. Featuring global smash hits ‘I Know Him So Well’ and ‘One Night In Bangkok’, this extraordinary sung-through production also features much-loved standards such as ‘Anthem’, ‘Someone Else’s Story’, ‘Heaven Help My Heart’ and ‘Pity The Child’.

This powerful new national production of Chess the MusicaL will be the theatrical event of 2021.