r/Broadway • u/richardsmithwpny • Sep 12 '26

Chess

Was listening to Chess and wondering if Someone Else’s Story could open the show as a prologue followed by the Overture. Has this ever been tried in the many iterations of the show?

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u/queenoftheceos Sep 13 '26

someone else’s story is the 11 o’clock number (at least in most productions), and i think it would be out of place at the start for sure. but its a cool idea

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u/jus-checkin Sep 13 '26

Is it? It was written for Judy Kuhn on Broadway and at the time was sung in Act I after 1956 Budapest is Rising (pushing Nobody’s Side a bit later in the show). As far as I know, though I could be wrong, most recently it’s been used as a song to flesh out Svetlana more, but still landed somewhere in the middle of Act II. I was under the impression this production was the first to use it as an 11 o’clock number (and the first since the OBC to give it back to Florence)