Tim Rice ready to revive Chess on Broadway

He was discussing a plan to return to Broadway with the cult musical.

Tim Rice is about to start his My Life in Musicals - I Know Him So Well tour soon around  the UK, but this is not the only project he is working on. He mentioned in an interview that he is working on to bring Chess to the Broadway stage again and even to the big screen later.

He said: "The musical I wrote in the early 80s with Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, Chess, has had by far the most complex history of any of the shows with which I have created," Rice explained. "All I wanted to do was to tell a straightforward story of a love affair between a Westerner and a Soviet in the time of the Cold War in the mid 1970s with an international chess tournament- the event that brought the lovers together."

"All in all, despite enumerable mishandlings, Chess has more than held its own on the stages of the world. And we plan to come back to Broadway one day fairly soon. A team in in place. And above all, I'd love there to be a movie version. The Queen's Gambit has shown how well that could work."

Date and venue are not confirmed yet.