Chess Chess Oh, don't get me started. The summer before fall 1996 I spent listening to Chess. I got very used to Judy Kuhn 's voice. When I got the script, I read over Florence's part like there was no tomorrow.
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Much mourning, perhaps some rolling on the floor crying occurred. I was devastated. But the remarkable Keema Waterfield did the most excellent job as Florence, I got bumped up to Arbiter, and I got mono and wouldn't have been able to pull off Florence in the first place. But I still love the musical, enough to make me go nutty when I found out Stanford was doing it the spring before I went there. Oh, I love Chess.