Schikaneder

[South Florida]

Posted: 8/3/16 at 3:13pm

Opens in September in Germany.  I believe it has been specifically written for German and American audiences.  Stephen Schwartz, and the one song available on you tube seems beautiful, even though I don't understand a word of German.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 12:03am

German and American? It seems like a topic that wouldn't appeal to Americans (he was Mozart's librettist or something?)

[Eurotrash]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 7:10am

Don't you have Mozart?

Looking forward to it, I find the number itself just a little bit sub-par for some reason, but the orchestration, and Milica, are just great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfoBir81eyE

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 7:29am

Eurotrash said: " I find the number itself just a little bit sub-par for some reason, but the orchestration, and Milica, are just great."

"Too many notes?"

 

 

 

[gypsy101]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 8:05am

do you mean does America have Mozart?

obviously yes. but the musical isn't called "Mozart!" or "Amadeus," it's called...Schikaneder, a name I wouldn't trust most Americans to attempt to pronounce.

Updated On: 8/4/16 at 08:05 AM

[John Adams]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 8:35am

 

 

 

 

 

 

henrickegerman said: "Too many notes?"

I see what you did there... !

This video is practically begging for a Bad Lip Reading. Without the distraction of comprehensible language (I don't speak German, either), I see a lot of man cleavage, affectatious hand gestures, and overzealous smiling. Whatever is going on between these two people, it's certainly making them very smiley and "bouncy".

I'd love to see what the Bad Lip Reading folks would do with the visual inserts (hot air balloon, evil lady riding the moon like a surfboard, etc...) and "behind the scenes" shots.

As for the song itself, I like it. It's obviously not the big 11 o'clock number, but it's perky and memorable. ...just like that pretty man's cleavage.

Updated On: 8/4/16 at 08:35 AM

[Eurotrash]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 10:11am

Not too many notes, I'm just not sure it's a classic, I think the melody line is a tiny bit pedestrian, somehow, for a Stephen Schwartz top-billed number. But I'm quibbling, because I really do like it...

[John Adams]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 10:25am

Eurotrash said: "Not too many notes, I'm just not sure it's a classic,"

I believe he's referencing:

 

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 10:26am

^You got it, Mr. Adams.

[Quasi]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 11:39am

It opens in Vienna that is not in Germany but in Austria!

[John Adams]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 12:23pm

gypsy101 said: "[...] the musical isn't called "Mozart!" or "Amadeus," it's called...Schikanaeder, a name I wouldn't trust most Americans to attempt to pronounce."

SHEE-kah-nay-dahr

I loved his action movies - hated his politics, though.

[_IrisTInkerbell]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 3:39pm

I have a feeling the OP meant German and AUSTRIAN audiences.

Btw, Trevor Nunn is directing, so it has quite the international leading team, with him and Steven attached. And I've seen a number of the songs performed now. Wilemijn Verkaik did one of the songs at her 54 Below show last year, and 2 were presented at the Wall to Wall Stephen Schwartz at Symphony Space in the spring - all in English because obviously Steven wrote the lyrics in English anyway, and they were later translated.

 

I am German and understand the song, the one posted is the Act 1 love song, so no, not the 11 o'clock number. It's about the librettist of The Magic Flute (who was also director, producer, theater owner ect.), Emanuel Schikaneder, and the tumultuous relationship with his wife, Eleonore. It's said that their relationship, and the things that happened in their lives, are how The Magic Flute came to be in the first place.

I'll hopefully get to see it, I'm quite excited!

[South Florida]

Posted: 8/4/16 at 7:18pm

Quite right Vienna is not Germany.  The last post makes me glad with anticipation, the girl is breaking my heart.

[Eurotrash]

Posted: 8/5/16 at 5:19am

Milica (MILL - its - uh) is subsequently playing Ich in Rebecca in Germany next summer, with a seriously top team. http://www.musicalfreunde.de/news/rebecca-kommt-endlich-wieder

[_IrisTInkerbell]

Posted: 8/5/16 at 5:29pm

Yea, she's quite the star over here. I've seen her as Evita and Magnolia in Show Boat, and I'm not even seeing that many shows over here... (regional theaters spread out all across the country, and Austria, makes it quite hard, it's almost easier to fly to NYC and see 10 shows in 7 days than to track back and forth here and only be able to see one show at a time, esp. since I don't drive)

[South Florida]

Posted: 8/5/16 at 6:11pm

I am such an idiot, I wrote for German and American audiences in my original post.  Anyway, anxious for the buzz.

[MadonnaMusical]

Posted: 8/6/16 at 6:37pm

They previewed some of the songs in Wall to Wall Schwartz in April in English and they were quite hilarious. 

Updated On: 8/6/16 at 06:37 PM

[South Florida]

Posted: 8/6/16 at 8:11pm

Any video?  "Too many notes", this is an outrage.  Top 50.

 

[South Florida]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 3:58pm

This is the last I'll be profiling this beautiful damsel before I go back to SJB and Falsetto's anticipation.  This gal is breathtaking.

[South Florida]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 4:26pm

I'm in lust again.

[leefowler]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 6:25pm

Are you guys referencing the euro-musical "Mozart, Das Musical"? I saw it in Hamburg a long time ago. It was truly horrible, although I don't speak German, so maybe I was missing the point. At any rate, it was a musical about Mozart featuring terrible pop songs. The audience stood up at the end.

 

Shikaender would make a good subject for a musical, actually. He ran a company in Vienna ( I think) that performed Singspiels, which were quite similar to what we call musicals, in that they had spoken dialogue. The Magic Flute was the most famous of these.

Updated On: 8/11/16 at 06:25 PM

[South Florida]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 6:31pm

Don't know, and I'm going to leave that research up to you, cause I'm lazy.

 

[South Florida]

Posted: 10/1/16 at 8:36am

Previews started yesterday in Vienna, any ideas how one would go about finding out audience reaction?

[South Florida]

Posted: 10/7/16 at 4:21pm

There's nothing wrong with the name of the show.  Please, no Hugh Jackman.

Russell Crowe maybe.

[10086sunset]

Posted: 10/7/16 at 5:04pm

Believe there is quite a bit wrong with the name...

For starters, it doesn't exactly scream commercial friendly...