Willkommen/Welcome — Page 11

#251

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:24pm

Oh, that sucks! I know how boring life can be...

I always start to tidy my room when I'm bored. So much about "Uninteresting Facts of GuyfromGermany's Life"

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In the real world the only people who burst into song are the hopelessly deranged...

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#252

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:26pm

I live in Kaiserslautern... no good shows...

#253

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:28pm

Gee. So you're forced to hang around an evening with us now *lol*

#254

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:29pm

If you put it that way, it doesn't sound all that bad...

#255

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:31pm

If you're bored, this site can be real fun!
http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html

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In the real world the only people who burst into song are the hopelessly deranged...

#256

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:32pm

So is your room often clean then or do you hardly get to tidying up the room, guyfromgermany?

Edit: later this evening, M.Berger will come back from this very original My Fair Lady version, I am already curious about his review

Updated On: 5/28/06 at 03:32 PM

#257

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:35pm

Ah...I remember when K-town American HS would play Frankfurt American HS in football.........we GI's always laughed that the K-Town fight song was Petula Clark's 'Downtown".......and it cracked me up that Frankfurt used 'Mighty Oregon" the U of Oregon (my alma mater) fight song.

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#258

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:35pm

It depends.
But YES, I have friends and NO, I don't spend 24hrs of the day on message boards... *g*

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#259

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:37pm

I used to have a lot of friends at both Kaiserslautern and Ramstein High...

I love that site...it guessed that I'm Karen walker... that'll provide hours of entertainment..lol

#260

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:38pm

Was there a reason for that choice, Elphaba, or just that it's a nice fight song?

And GuyfromGermany, that's how it should be

#261

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:38pm

Please don't mention football... The WM-craziness drives me mad!!!

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In the real world the only people who burst into song are the hopelessly deranged...

#262

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:42pm

Makes me recall there are many musicals featuring great sport scenes in it. Some of my favorites: The Football Game from All American and What a Game from Ragtime

#263

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:44pm

Oh, I love Ragtime! I'm listening to "Sarah Brown Eyes" right now...

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In the real world the only people who burst into song are the hopelessly deranged...

#264

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:46pm

Have you ever noticed that the ragtime 2disc CD they sell in Germany has a different picture on the booklet compared to the copies they sell in the US. No idea why.

Edit: I fortunately once got my Mom to buy it for me, when I had listened to a track playing on the radio.

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#265

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:46pm

Ha...I love Ragtime as well. I listened to it all day yesterday.

#266

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:48pm

The German one always reminds me of the first "Lord of the Rings" movie...

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#267

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:49pm

I haven't seen it. Did they translate Ragtime? How bad is it?

#268

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:53pm

lol, no no, it is merely a different release of the OBC
No translation and no German production yet. although I would travel through most of Germany to see that.

#269

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:56pm

What do you think about "Tarzan" coming to Germany?
I have no idea why the chose to do so with those really, REALLY bad reviews...

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In the real world the only people who burst into song are the hopelessly deranged...

#270

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:57pm

Depends on who translated it...
I had to learn "Take me or leave me" in German *shudders*

#271

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:59pm

They'll do so, because Disney does not give a ..... whether the critics in NYC like it or not. They know European audiences will attend anything that says Disney, Lloyd Webber or Wildhorn. So it is the audience's turn to say no by staying away. Which they won't, because people going to see a musical in Germany don't so like going into theatre but rather like going into Disneyland.

Edit: That's probably our veteran translator Michael Kunze. But I was told, Wolfgang Adenberg is at the moment working at a new translation of Rent. Well, admittedly I don't care for this show extremely much anyhow, but was one of only a very few who went to cinema to see it in Berlin.

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#272

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 4:02pm

Apart from that, they are completely deprived! There are like, what 15 shows playing? At the most... And it's all crap like that, they just don't know any better...

#273

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 4:04pm

The original German translation of Rent is one of the worst translations of a musical I have ever heard! I'm really excited for the new lyrics.

And the best example for "being deprived" is the new production of "Dirty Dancing" in Hamburg... Why, god, WHY???

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#274

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 4:06pm

....Nimm mich fuer was ich bin, we -ee-eer i-ich sein soll, ziiieht es dich zu mir hin? Nimm mich Baby sonst ma-ach Schluss..."

#275

re: Willkommen/Welcome

Posted: 5/28/06 at 4:07pm

That's a bit too hard, the main problem is that Germans regard only those musicals to be worthy of their attendance that are long running ones provided by stage holding or a company like that. Many regional "Stadttheater" do provide better shows, including most of the Sondheim repertory, but you usually just don't drive to another city to visit their "Stadttheater".
On second thought I maybe should from now on *lol*