London ColiseumEven Alexandra Burke can't save this lumbering story told with tracks by the Abba songwritersMusicals are the toughest of mediums, requiring the score, book and production to all come together as a glittering whole. But only the score, written by Abba songwriters Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, hits the heights in this cold war musical, first seen in London in 1986, which uses a chess championship …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM on May 2, 2018