48. Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice gamely wrote which musical that included the song 'One Night in Bangkok'?
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Answer:
Chess
Tim Rice, who had worked with composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber on several musicals, had the initial idea for a musical that used a chess match to illustrate the then Cold War rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union. The music for 'Chess' was composed by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, who were members of the group ABBA, while the lyrics were written by Bjorn and Tim Rice. It was first released as an album in the autumn of 1984 and this album was a critical and financial success, reaching number one in the Swedish album charts, the top ten in the UK, West German and South African charts and the top fifty in the US, Australia and France.
The musical was subsequently staged in London, where it received mainly good reviews and ran from 1986 to 1989. It then appeared on Broadway in a substantially altered form for a couple of months in 1988 and in the decades since then has also been staged in a number of other countries in Europe and in Australia, often with details changed to reflect the changing times.
Although the venues, interactions between the characters and the outcomes of the matches have varied, the basic plot is of a chess match in two separate parts between a world-class player from the USA and one from the Soviet Union. The original musical set the first part in Merano in Italy and the second part in Bangkok in Thailand. Murray Head played the role of the American for the original album and musical and sang the verses of the song 'One Night In Bangkok'. The song was released as a single in 1984 and was a success in many countries, reaching number one in the South African, Australian and some European singles charts, number three in the US and Canadian singles charts, and number twelve in the UK. The song has also been recorded by a few European groups, such as the Vinylshakerz from Germany in 2005.
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