German Musicals -- HELP!

Posted: 9/22/04 at 8:12pm

A Very Good Friend of mine is going to Germany and she is offering to buy me a german cast recording of a show or two.

I already have
MOZART
THE LION KING
GREASE
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAMNE
JEKYLL AND HYDE
DIANA
TANZ DER VAMPIRE

I was looking to get the other Tanz or Mama Mia or AIDA. What do you suggest. She is leaving October 1st.

[NoDayButToday2]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 8:27pm

hmmmm I dont know... I would definately suggest AIDA though... sorry I wasnt more help! Your've made a list of some wonderful shows though, so whatever you pick I'm sure you will be pleased with

[lyfeisacabaret]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 9:31pm

It's a shame "Pinkelstadt" isn't recorded yet.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 1:03am

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[525600Minutes]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 3:05am

As I am German maybe I can give you a few suggestions.

The German Cast recording of Les Miserables is really good. Although it's only the highlights CD. The complete recording is from Vienna 1988 and also quite good.
Maybe the Rent recording. The translations are really really REALLY bad, but maybe if you don't speak German it won't bother you too much.
How about Elisabeth? Have you heard of this show? It's really awesome!

Posted: 9/23/04 at 8:44am

Freudiana
Barbarella (if the recording is out yet)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 9:25am

Tanz der Vampire (2CD version) and Hunchback are my two favorite on the list. I saw Hunchback and though the staging was dull, the score was excellent. The recording features all the songs from the film plus some new material.

[temms]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 10:49am

"Elisabeth" is kind of fun - book/lyrics by Michael Kunze, who worked on "Dance of the Vampires." There is a one-disc and a two-disc version, if I recall correctly, and I think the one-disc has pretty much all you need. Unless you're a completist.

Very "Evita"-like show about the empress of Austria and her fascination with Death (here, a long blonde rock singer-type.)

Posted: 9/23/04 at 10:58am

There is another thread on this from a while back too. You might want to check that out.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 11:06am

There's a German tour cast of Hair out...good singers, but done in English.

Posted: 9/23/04 at 3:32pm

I have a single cast recording of Tanz.....

I know there is another one out there. I am trying to figure out how mnay recordings of it there are. I actually love the Tanz cd.

[magruder]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 3:41pm

Have her pick up the German Sunset Blvd. with Helen Schneider and Uwe Kroeger.

[B.B. Wolf]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 5:41pm

Elisabeth
Tanz Der Vampire - "fur Sarah" rocks my face off.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 8:57am

Here's my advice: the single CD of Tanz (hohepunkte) is a third of the magnificent score. If you get the double, it is absolutely thrilling. Outlandish! The score, as an organic whole, represented on the double recording, is the most lush thing I've heard in the last 30 thirty years of musical theatre. It goes from where Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita left off... jam-packed with melody and a moving operatic story. It's definitely better than Phantom (in my book) although Steinman was the first lyricist for Phantom, then had to leave for a Bonnie Tyler commitment. There is only the highlight (hohepunkte) CD and the Complete (der gesantaufnahme) - which are both from the original Vienna cast. There is no Broadway CD (thank heavens), but there are English demos with Steve Barton (the original and superior Count von Krolock). Tanz is currently running in Hamburg, and was still packing-them-in in Stuttgart while the Broadway season raged critics. Steinman did another musical abroad, GARBO, which I'm sure only a few of you would have heard of (it was not successful). He is working on Batman and Bat Out of Hell 2100 (according to what we fans have been told) and I hope it's just as phenonemal and intriguing as the complete work of Tanz der Vampire. For those who've seen the Broadway Tanz, consider you haven't seen the show at all! - because no one can really know this show unless they get the Vienna CD. Not even the Hamburg run is good - because they are constantly cutting out sections of the show to appease paying-time

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 8:59am

The melodies of Fuer Sarah and Draussen ist Freiheit were recycled from Steinman's 70s musical with Ray Errol Fox "The Confidence Man". That CD is available (NOW) at Footlight Records and Original Cast Records. I'd strongly recommend you hear it. Ray presented a piece of it with ASCAP, the other day, (the Fuer Sarah melody: THIS VERSION known as "Milady") with Mark Coffin vocalizing. Apparently it was for a function that was honoring Avenue Q

Updated On: 9/24/04 at 08:59 AM

[EVIE]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 2:37am

I have both of the German recordings of Les Miz and if you have to chose, go for the Duisburg (sp?) cast (it has one of the best Fantines and Eponines). The German cast of Aida is also very good, Amneris is incredible!