Dec. 3rd, 2012 07:34 pm
021. "One More Opponent / You & I", Chess
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chicafrom3"One More Opponent / You & I", from the 2001 Danish tour of Chess, as sung by Stig Rossen and Emma Kershaw.
Admit it, you were waiting to see how long it would take me to get around to a song from Chess.
Chess is my favorite musical, period, end of sentence, no qualifiers. Through all the rewrites and all the changes and all the flaws no one's quite managed to fix, I love it. Every version has something to recommend it, even the bizarre Australian and Off-Broadway rewrites.
The 2001 Danish Tour is my favorite cast recording, and "You & I" is one of the greatest love songs in musical theatre canon.
Florence (Kershaw) and Anatoly (Rossen) deal with a number of external factors that threaten their relationship, key among them the stress of the upcoming chess match and the arrival of Anatoly's wife, Svetlana. And as they do, they also confront the fact that they already know how their relationship is going to play out; it's the same story they've already gone through in previous relationships. But they can't stop trying to convince each other and themselves that this time the ending will be different; this time, things will work out.
Each day we get through
Means one less mistake
Left for the making
Admit it, you were waiting to see how long it would take me to get around to a song from Chess.
Chess is my favorite musical, period, end of sentence, no qualifiers. Through all the rewrites and all the changes and all the flaws no one's quite managed to fix, I love it. Every version has something to recommend it, even the bizarre Australian and Off-Broadway rewrites.
The 2001 Danish Tour is my favorite cast recording, and "You & I" is one of the greatest love songs in musical theatre canon.
Florence (Kershaw) and Anatoly (Rossen) deal with a number of external factors that threaten their relationship, key among them the stress of the upcoming chess match and the arrival of Anatoly's wife, Svetlana. And as they do, they also confront the fact that they already know how their relationship is going to play out; it's the same story they've already gone through in previous relationships. But they can't stop trying to convince each other and themselves that this time the ending will be different; this time, things will work out.
You and I, we've seen it all
Been down this road before
Yet we go on believing...
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