Grab your sleeping bags and bug spray, people. It’s time for camp. Chess is back on Broadway after 37 years, as big and weird as ever, with as much late-’80s bombast as a Claude Montana runway show , as much cheese as a charcuterie board. Let’s get the Five Ws out of the way so we can get to all that delicious dairy:
Who? Musical theater prom court Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Chistopher as the cult hit’s absurdly brainy love triangle; Michael Mayer holding the bullhorn; and, of all people, Danny Strong behind the new book that’s attempting to give some kind of psychological/historical coherency to the stadium-size music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and the barrage of histrionic lyrics by Tim Rice. (Because who better to take yet another swing at Chess ’s

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