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.
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?)
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
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?"
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
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
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...
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:
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.
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!
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.
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
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)
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.
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
Posted: 8/6/16 at 8:11pm
Any video? "Too many notes", this is an outrage. Top 50.
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.
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
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.
Posted: 10/1/16 at 8:36am
Previews started yesterday in Vienna, any ideas how one would go about finding out audience reaction?
Posted: 10/7/16 at 4:21pm
There's nothing wrong with the name of the show. Please, no Hugh Jackman.
Russell Crowe maybe.
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...
