Darren Criss, Lena Corridor To Carry out Profit ‘Chess’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Darren Criss, Lena Corridor, Ramin Karimloo and Solea Pfeiffer will carry out a one-night-only profit live performance of the 1986 Benny Andersson-Björn Ulvaeus-Tim Rice musical Chess subsequent month at a Broadway theater to profit The (previously The Actors Fund).

The live performance, which will likely be held on the the Broadhurst Theatre on on Monday, December 12 at 7:30 pm ET, was introduced by the Leisure Group Fund right this moment. The profit will likely be offered in affiliation with Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman whose award-winning Broadway credit embrace Ain’t Too Proud, Inexperienced Day’s American Fool and Spring Awakening.

Criss will carry out the function of “Freddie Trumper”, Corridor will likely be “Florence Vassey”, Karimloo will painting “Anatoly Sergievsky” and Pfeiffer will likely be “Svetlana Sergievsky”.

Extra casting will likely be introduced at a later date.

“We’re thrilled to assist convey this new iteration of such a beloved musical to New York Metropolis,” stated Leisure Group Fund Chair Brian Stokes Mitchell. “Our because of Tom, Ira and the entire Chess firm for his or her beneficiant assist of our applications and companies to assist these in our business this vacation season.”

The live performance will function the rating by ABBA’s Andersson and Ulvaeus and Rice, and in addition will embrace a brand new e book by Emmy Award -winning Recreation Change author Danny Sturdy. Tony winner Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Indignant Inch, Spring Awakening) directs.

Chess, which opened on the West Finish in 1986 and on Broadway two years later, is a love story set towards the historic Chilly Battle chess battles between the US and Russia the place ideologies dangerously conflict. Sturdy’s new e book, producers say, “is sharp, humorous and captures the stress of the period as the long-lasting rating retains the stakes excessive from begin to end.”

Among the many extra common songs from the musical are “One Night time in Bangkok” and “I Know Him So Effectively.”

Chess was initially produced on Broadway by The Shubert Group, 3 Knights Ltd. and
Robert Fox Ltd.

Ticket info for the profit live performance might be discovered on the Leisure Group Fund web site.