I always thought the different reputation of musical theatre in Germany would have effects on fans, how they behave and what they do here in Germany. But when I recently read Stacy Wolf’s Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical and it included a full chapter about fangirls in the 21st century, […]
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When I first visited New York City last fall I took – as cheesy as it sounds – my Mom on a Broadway Walking Tour. We had a great time listening to the stories about how Broadway used to be, how Times Square used to look, etc. On our way between stops, our tour guide asked me […]
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From my last posts here you might have gotten the impression that in Germany we don’t really value contemporary musical theatre as in ‘new musicals.’ And for the most people from the academic theatre studies field it might be true. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in theatre studies last fall (my minors were as amazing […]
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Do you remember when Rebecca – The Musical was to open on Broadway and then didn’t? If you remember that you probably also remember that it premiered in Vienna, Austria, in 2006, and has since then played in various cities in Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Ukraine, Hungary, Romania as well as Germany […]
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When you think about Germany, what comes to your mind first? German bread, Angela Merkel, the Oktoberfest or the Nazis? Or maybe something more connected to the arts – Beethoven, Schubert and the famous serious German writers? What I’m trying to say: You probably would not instantly think about comedy. Or Germans being particularly funny. Am I […]
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In my last post I talked about how theatre is produced in Germany for the most part, how our government and the states and cities fund what artists to in theatres. I also mentioned that this could – in a way – be influenced by how proud we (sometimes) still are to be the country of Goethe […]
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In my last (and first) post here I gave a short introduction on what the situation of contemporary musical theatre in Germany is like. I mostly focused on these bigger productions with lots of money and institutional power in the background – in Germany most of the ‘regional’ theatres are state supported. We kind of […]
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A few years ago I had a ticket to attend a panel discussion with Stephen Schwartz and a couple of German ‘musical theatre experts’ in Berlin. I had the flu and wasn’t feeling all that well, but I went anyway – because, well: Stephen Schwartz. The space where the discussion was held was the set of […]
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