{"id":135783,"date":"2025-11-15T04:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135783\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T04:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:35:12","slug":"dont-svet-it-backstage-at-chess-with-hannah-cruz-episode-3-get-this-to-the-marketing-team-stat-broadway-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135783\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Svet It: Backstage at Chess With Hannah Cruz, Episode 3: Get This to the Marketing Team, STAT! | Broadway Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannah Cruz<\/a> plays Svetlana in Chess<\/a> on Broadway. For six weeks, she’s checking in with fans from backstage at the Imperial Theatre. It’s going to be game-changing.<\/p>\n

Cruz kicks off episode three getting ready at home, where she explains the importance of scent to her process\u2014she chooses a signature fragrance for every character she plays. Svetlana’s is Red Moscow perfume (a.k.a. Krasnaya Moskva);\u00a0as Inez in Suffs she jokes it was the smell of Tiger Balm because she used so much muscle rub while in performances. Beyond the stage, Cruz has a recurring role in\u00a0The Copenhagen Test, a new Peacock series premiering on December 27. Starring Simu Liu and\u00a0Melissa Barrera, Cruz plays a character named\u00a0Rachel Kasperian. Well, she officially revealed Rachel’s two\u00a0fragrances\u00a0in this week’s vlog: “Vacation” by Vacation and\u00a0Madame Rochas perfume\u00a0for the first part of the series, which takes place in 1962. “This perfume was used by a lot of fancy ladies in that time, or ladies who wanted to smell fancy,” Cruz adds. We love the attention to detail!<\/p>\n

Back at the Imperial, Cruz gears up for opening with the rest of the cast. But first, a very important order of business: Bryce Pinkham<\/a> pitches his ideas for the\u00a0Chess\u00a0themed drinks sold at the show, and honestly, he might have a future in marketing. “The Arbiter, we’re calling the ‘Artini’ and then on two-show days, maybe the Espresso Artini,” he riffs. Plus, Cruz chats with Ian Weinberger,\u00a0Chess’ music director. Watch the jam-packed episode below!<\/p>\n

Episodes are released weekly on Fridays. You can also catch highlights on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal.<\/p>\n

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Get tickets to Chess<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Cruz plays Svetlana in Chess on Broadway. For six weeks, she’s checking in with fans from backstage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-135783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}