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Mayerling kiss!! In 2024!!!

@fitzrove fair. I've seen the Dutch version and Rudolf keeps the same way of performing during the whole thing.

More outrageous moments (for everyone interested):

NO MAYERLING KISS :( what happened, Rudolf stood in the centre of the stage, Tod and the ensemble (not even dressed as Todsengelen) around him in a semi-circle. No interaction between Rudolf, Tod, and Ensemble whatsoever. Rudolf puts gun in mouth and falls dead. Tod turns on heels and walks away. The ensemble walks away save for 4 who carry Rudolf away.

DEEPLY DISTURBING THINGS:

"Der Tod" pushing a sigarette in Danique's mouth, while holding her throat. That was in my eyes when they went *too* far. -

"Der Tod" telling Baby Rudolf "I'll stay" when the child said "go away". I loved the German version precisely because Tod was able (for his goals) to "befriend" humans. Here, it looks like child abuse.

What the heck was that heroine needle-

About that ^^ at the end of "Wenn ich tanzen will", during which a music box was playing (brought by Tod), Pia broke the plate-scratching-needle out of the box and "stuck" it in her arm. My friend found from an interview it is meant to represent heroine.

What a weird way to stage the Mayerling -

Overall, I need to say, that "Der Tod" felt here like an abusive, creepy man, instead of a dangerous otherwordly being.

THINGS THAT WERE NOT DISTURBING, BUT DISAPPOINTING:

The Cardinal wasn't peer pressured enough in "Wir oder Sie" :( Usually Sophie (and sometimes the rest of the noblemen) stares him down until he agrees. Here he agreed on his own, and I didn't really like it, because, if it doesn't give any interaction, why have that line at all?

The choreography of "Mama wo bist du", and "Die Schatten". Just...no. There was SO MUCH critique about the Schönbrunn 'whip'-pulling, yet here they do the same with a rope, when suddenly, it's 'cool'. I don't know who's more at fault, the director or the actor, but there is a fine line between something being empathy-invoking and pathetic, and this guy uses this line as a tightrope. <- this is about Rudolf's excessive kneeling and whimpering

The amount of times Elisabeth is thrown on the ground and/or touches her throat. I mean, there is critique about the Elisabeth throw-and-grab during Der Letzte Tanz in the earlier productions. Here she was thrown around even more AND grabbed by the throat. Congratz, producing team.

Hi there! The Dutch Musical Awards were yesterday evening, and they always include some performances from the nominated shows and what else is in the theatre at the moment. And they did "Er valt een zwarte schaduw" (which is "Die Schatzen werden langer" in German?) From Elisabeth the musical! The performance is on YouTube, check it out:

https://youtu.be/Q8nhMQvxxNQ?si=2ujwn4F6NR1e8lpV

Thanks for the link!

Milan sure is doing something (tm) as Death (he's fine, there have been much worse ones in Germany - not sure about that falsetto opt up lmao but idk, he's decent) but wow, these people have zero chemistry😭😭 I don't think the guy that plays Rudolf is even acting or trying to show what the character is feeling in this scene, he's just kind of there???

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things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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Les Mis (the book) is full of surprisingly hilarious moments (such as this one) 😂

alternative take: Pamina and Papageno in that scene where they sneak out of the castle with Papageno going "hush hush hushhhhh"

monostatos and the queen of the night heading to the sun temple

Thanks! I'll look there

Hi um this is a server where we appreciate European Musicals, right?

So I wanted to ask, can anybody please tell me where I can find the video recording of the 2nd act of Dracula 2021 (with Thomas Borchert and Patrick Stanke as Dracula and Van Helsing)? YouTube only shows the 1st act...

i assume you mean the proshot? if you're looking for proshot musicals there is r/ProshotTheatre , there's also VK and BiliBili which have a lot of musical theatre videos on them espeically European musicals. if you're not familiar there is also the musical theatre trading community so you could find someone on Encora or r/MusicalBootlegs who has the video you're looking for and ask if they'll gift it to you (assuming you have nothing to trade).

I'm 80% certain the entire recording is on VK.

EDIT: Yeah it's on VK. Act 1. Act 2.

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