THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT Musical

[Jeffrey Kare Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 118 Posts: 4905 View Predictions]

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Fresh off of the success of the acclaimed television miniseries adaptation on Netflix, production company Level Forward has acquired the theatrical stage rights to the original Walter Tevis novel, The Queen’s Gambit, to turn it into a stage musical. No creative team nor timeline has been revealed yet.
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/the-queens-gambit-netflix-musical-1234924779/

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[adamunc Joined: Jul 5th, 2011 Topics: 11 Posts: 520 View Predictions]

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There was already an unsuccessful musical about chess.

The Queen’s Gambit was my favorite television production of 2020, but I just don’t see the material adapting well to the stage. It’s a great story, but better suited to the page or to a close-up visual medium.

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[Miles Joined: Oct 22nd, 2016 Topics: 7 Posts: 1102 View Predictions]

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Please make it stop

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 215 Posts: 32958 View Predictions]

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FYC:

"The Good Fight", "The Other Two" and "Station Eleven" in all categories, Sarah Lancashire ("Julia"), William Jackson Harper ("Love Life") and Luke Kirby ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel")

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[rantinanton Joined: Jun 22nd, 2017 Topics: 6 Posts: 365 View Predictions]

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One chess-based musical is enough. Unless it has music on par with “One Night in Bangkok.”

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