The first thing you’ll notice when you see Nicholas Christopher isn’t his tall figure or his immaculate bald head: It’s his wide smile. Sure, he may be giving a star turn as morose chess champion Anatoly Sergievsky in the hit Broadway revival of Chess, but off the stage, Christopher knows how to have fun. In his off hours, he’s usually playing make-believe with his two children (they like to dress him up).
“I don't take what we do seriously, but I take how I do it seriously,” he muses, leaning back against the chair, relaxed. “It's goofy, what we do—we put on other people's clothes, we say other people's words, and somebody tells us where to stand. We obviously have our input. And when we all collaborate in the right way, then theatre and the arts can change the world.” He then adds, lightly: “But that doesn't necessarily mean that I take myself seriously in that because I don't.”
There’s a refreshing lack of pretension when Christopher discusses his take on Anatoly...READ MORE