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.
Why don't you go? Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you... he's got his memories. He doesn't love you, he wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you?
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.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
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.
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...
Why don't you go? Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you... he's got his memories. He doesn't love you, he wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you?
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."
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.
Why don't you go? Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you... he's got his memories. He doesn't love you, he wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you?
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)
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.
Behind the fake tinsel of Broadway is real tinsel.