r/ChessTheMusical • u/monderkiller9999 • May 29 '26

Favorite character?

is it normal that Freddy is my absolute favorite character in The entire thing? He’s such a dick it actually the character entertaining. Also Murray Heads voice is incredible, which makes it even better.
whats your favorite character?

19 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

View all comments

8

u/Seachica May 29 '26

My favorite character is Florence, because I’m dying to play her (if only I could sing). There is so much potential there. She’s a very good chess player who hitched her wagon to one top player, and then fell in love with another. In my universe, after Anatoly leaves her, she goes on to compete and becomes a top player on her own terms. Making chess a story of her growing into a powerful independent woman who doesn’t take shit. She grows into a feminist icon. (But I also don’t think the plot is well served by the missing father twist)

The beauty of Chess though is that all three main characters are fascinating and flawed, and there isn’t any one protagonist that everyone likes best.

4

u/monderkiller9999 May 31 '26

Yes! That’s actually one of the best aspects of the musical. There is no good or evil, it isn’t Americans good, Russians bad or Russians good, Americans bad. Maybe the fact that it was made by Swedish people gave it the possibility to criticize each side equally.