All I want for christmas is a damn studio recording of this version of Chess...UGH It hurts knowing we'll never get it. Also Raul Esparza as Freddie is just too perfect, I love him.
The amazing thing is this is Raul singing while super sick. He battled through during the performance I saw, but was clearly struggling. He wasn't so sick in this performance and sounds so much better, but is clearly not 100%. What a pro
I saw it live when he wasn't sick yet and he was incredible. It may have been the night after this one. Broke my heart to see the videos the days after we saw it where his voice was gone.
Thank you for sharing what fantastic voices what a treat. Everyone is amazing but Raúl Esparza what a surprise love him in SVU his version of One night in Bangkok is hot, Olivia Benson would slap the handcuffs on him for sure. The Duet of I know him so well was just beautiful I wish there was more.
I saw the performance of this on the 17th, love that people recorded it! These actors all really killed it, especially Raul Esparza and Ramin Karimloo, I was so excited to see them! ❤
Kristine, Do I understand correctly that in this version the Soviet champion Anatoly Sergievsky wins in the final? The Kennedy Center was not afraid to go against the patriotism of the USA and showed the real author's idea as originally written by ABBA?
In this v Anatoly does win in Endgame! He does deflect from the USSR and defeat a USSR player so Freddie and US patriotism doesn’t have so much to do with it anyways. They tied a lot more “fuck politics” sentiment into it, and with the rewrites more heavily tied up in historic events it kind of works? With the final ending they did it with Florence’s dad actually still alive and the two share a song together, which is a bit nicer about the CIA’s integrity, but thematically undermines the idea that politics and bureaucracy don’t care about individual people. Also I didn’t see the show so I don’t know how a lot of this plays visually, All I have is based on a few clips and an audio bootleg.
All I want for christmas is a damn studio recording of this version of Chess...UGH
It hurts knowing we'll never get it.
Also Raul Esparza as Freddie is just too perfect, I love him.
The amazing thing is this is Raul singing while super sick. He battled through during the performance I saw, but was clearly struggling. He wasn't so sick in this performance and sounds so much better, but is clearly not 100%. What a pro
I saw it live when he wasn't sick yet and he was incredible. It may have been the night after this one. Broke my heart to see the videos the days after we saw it where his voice was gone.
I thought he was amazing!
I´ve loved Chess since 1984...Only knew Raul from SVU...He´s a fab singer !
Can we please have an actual full production with this whole cast... they’re so goooood 😭😭😭😭😭
raúl esparza is genuinely my bisexual fever dream nightmare god and this production breaks my brain every time i circle back to it
Thank you for sharing what fantastic voices what a treat. Everyone is amazing but Raúl Esparza what a surprise love him in SVU his version of One night in Bangkok is hot, Olivia Benson would slap the handcuffs on him for sure. The Duet of I know him so well was just beautiful I wish there was more.
14:03 Pity the Child
Raul Esparza was sick?! How did he get through Pity The Child?! That was unbelievable, holy crap. 🤯🤯
I need a studio recording of Raul’s Pity the Child. Im obessed!😍
lol hi I’m Raul Esparza and evening with a fucking throat infection I SOUND LIKE THIS
I saw the performance of this on the 17th, love that people recorded it! These actors all really killed it, especially Raul Esparza and Ramin Karimloo, I was so excited to see them! ❤
Raul singing Pity the Child. What a gut-punch.
These videos of Chess you have are great! I wish you would have got Anthem. Ramon Karimloo is probably amazing singing it!
I think videos of him singing it in other venues exist. You should look it up and see what you get.
But yes. Him singing Anthem gives me chills.
Raul you rocked this with heart even though your voice was not up to par! 💗
I am a chess amateur player and I have loved this song for ever, but never had heard this version before, it is amazing, thanks for sharing.
Even though he’s sick, this is one of my favorite versions of One Night in Bangkok.
2:29 - I am living for that bi lighting
On this performance he wasn’t fully sick … it got a little worse. I’m glad I got to see it when he still had some voice
Here just for Ramin. Love his Anthem
you are a blessing
I love this cheese recipe! Looking great
Kristine, Do I understand correctly that in this version the Soviet champion Anatoly Sergievsky wins in the final? The Kennedy Center was not afraid to go against the patriotism of the USA and showed the real author's idea as originally written by ABBA?
In this v Anatoly does win in Endgame! He does deflect from the USSR and defeat a USSR player so Freddie and US patriotism doesn’t have so much to do with it anyways. They tied a lot more “fuck politics” sentiment into it, and with the rewrites more heavily tied up in historic events it kind of works? With the final ending they did it with Florence’s dad actually still alive and the two share a song together, which is a bit nicer about the CIA’s integrity, but thematically undermines the idea that politics and bureaucracy don’t care about individual people. Also I didn’t see the show so I don’t know how a lot of this plays visually, All I have is based on a few clips and an audio bootleg.
I don’t have this verson of I know him so well, is it possible to get a google drive link? Thank you so much for uploading this😭
Are you planning on uploading the rest of this or do you have a link?
This is sadly all there is. I just collected all the different existing clips into one video. As far as I know, there's no complete video.
Thank you for this!
Does anyone know if the singer in this clip from Chess The New Musical Cast is Raul? ruclips.net/video/EEucj1jip_o/видео.html
no it isnt