{"id":346597,"date":"2024-04-05T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=346597"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:14:48","slug":"tickets-for-chess-now-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2024\/04\/05\/tickets-for-chess-now-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets For Chess Now On Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_346599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-346599\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240405chess.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-full wp-image-346599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240405chess.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240405chess-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240405chess-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240405chess-285x177.jpg 285w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240405chess-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240405chess-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-346599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Bell, Julee-anne Bell and Nick Backstrom will play the lead roles in the South Burnett Musical Comedy Society&#8217;s up-coming production of Chess The Musical<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>April 5, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bookings have opened for the South Burnett Musical Comedy Society\u2019s production of Chess The Musical.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The show will be staged in semi-concert style at Kingaroy Town Hall between May 17 and May 26 over four evening and two matinee performances.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we have minimal sets and props, we do have choreographed movement and audio visual projections which really add to the energy of the show,&#8221; director Julee-anne Bell said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The focus is on the fantastic music written by the ABBA boys (Benny Andersson and Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus) with lyrics by Broadway legend Tim Rice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The powerful lead vocals are backed up by a talented chorus, and it already gives me goosebumps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The musical is about love, power and &#8211; of course &#8211; strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story revolves around a politically driven, Cold War-era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other.<\/p>\n<p>Songs like \u2018One Night in Bangkok\u2019 and \u2018I Know Him So Well\u2019 will be familiar to many.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chess features Nick Backstrom as Frederick Trumper, Julee-anne Bell as Florence Vassy, and Thomas Bell as Anatoly Sergievsky, who will lead a full cast of twenty-six singers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The creative team includes Julee-anne Bell as Director with Thomas Bell as Assistant Director and Jessica Welch as Choreographer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you see just one show this year, make it Chess because it really delivers on the Broadway promise of great music, inspired singing and a company that gives everything to entertain their  audience,&#8221; Julee-anne said.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available online <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.trybooking.com\/events\/landing\/1199496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><B>at Trybooking.com<\/B><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookings have opened for the South Burnett Musical Comedy Society\u2019s production of Chess The Musical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":346599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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