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Jan. 17, 2026
Because this is a Broadway history podcast, I don’t usually comment on recently opened productions, since we can’t know yet whether they will be historically significant. The exceptions, of course, are major revivals of Broadway musicals from the past. And since I’ve been around for a while and had the opportunity to see the original 1986 London production of Chess , which ran for three years, as well as the 1988 Broadway production, which closed after only 68 performances, and a few weeks ago, ...
