PHOTO CALL: First Look at Chess with Euan Morton, Jill Paice and Jeremy Kushnier

By Matthew Blank
09 Aug 2010

Jill Paice (Curtains, The 39 Steps), Euan Morton (Taboo, Sondheim on Sondheim) and Jeremy Kushnier star in the Signature Theatre's new staging of Chess, beginning previews Aug. 10 at the Arlington, VA, stage.

Completing the cast are Eleasha Gamble (Svetlana), along with Christopher Bloch (Molokov), Russell Sunday (Walter) and Chris Sizemore (Arbiter). The ensemble includes Jonathan Atkinson, Jamie Eacker, James Gardiner, Gregory Maheu, Katie McManus, Christopher Mueller, Bayla Whitten and Rachel Zampelli.

With music by Mamma Mia! composers Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, lyrics by Evita and Lion King lyricist Tim Rice, and book by playwright Richard Nelson (James Joyce's The Dead), "the 1984 cult musical of Cold War competition in love and chess is being given its first major U.S. production since 1995 and is the very first professional Washington-area production," according to Signature.

Here is a sneak peek at the show, set to run through Sept. 26:

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Jeremy Kushnier, Jill Paice (background) and company
Photo by Scott Suchman



Chess features the hit single "One Night in Bangkok," and "Anthem," "I Know Him So Well," "Nobody's Side" and "Pity the Child."

For tickets and information, call (703) 820-9771 or visit www.signature-theatre.org.