59 UNLOCKED - Chess: The Musical (feat. Jake Beckhard)
Time to reach once more into the ol' Cool Vaultaire
Jake Beckhard (Blue Balls NYCFC) challenges the lads to the match of the century as they try to outmaneuver the bopping songs and confounding political intrigue of the infamous Tim Rice/Benny Andersson/Björn Ulvaeus flop musical: Chess. Topics include the many different versions of the show, the innate appeal of a broken musical, and the ever increasing eccentricities of one Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice.
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Jake Beckhard
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
Get Onto My Cloud: The Tim Rice Podcast: Spotify / Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts
“Chess Seeks to Shed Its Checkered Past” by Stephen Holden, NYTimes
Chess (1986 London Concept Cast): Spotify / Apple Music / Amazon
Chess In Concert (2008): AppleTV / YouTube / Letterboxd
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Comments (8)
Weirdly one of the things my parents (born in the UK in the mid 60s) mentioned a couple of weeks ago is how many more dogs there were just pottering around by themselves when they were growing up. So perhaps Rice isn’t quite as deranged as he sounds now.
Sorry to say, but AJ's pronunciation of ABBA is more right than Brian's
It’s hilarious how you are all fired up having different opinions about all the different songs. The backing vocals in the interstitial are particularly good.
finally i can understand what my tumblr mutuals have been posting about
I forgot about Jekyll & Hyde...you should do an episode on it!!
Cynical art is worthless, cruel, and selfish. Cynicism is the perspective of privilege. The only way to get anything out of cynical art is to not be a cynical person.
The declassified Kennedy files basically confirmed that the Hungarian revolution was mostly just made up of fascists, which is appropriate because that's the only kind of revolution the US ever gives a shit about doing the PR for. So yeah, literally no sympathy from me.
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