*by Live Theatre I Mean Plays, Musicals, Operas, Ballets, Concert Versions Of Musicals, Staged Readings,

#rip European lyrics. We will honour you in our hearts

Europeans translating American musicals: So we worked closely with the original composer to make sure our translation is as faithful as possible while remaining a singable rhyming translation. If a literal translation is not possible, we use a localized replacement that works in the target language. Please don’t hate us, we tried our best!!!

Literally anyone translating European musicals: *splotches lyrics on a plate like spaghetti, spits in it, and shoves it in your general direction* Here’s your stupid Eurotrash pop slop in English, happy now???? Also, we turned your corny-ass fauxpera into a comedy and replaced half the score with useless reprises. As is PROPER.

#what about giving Tod a sword instead of a fishing rod/whip like in the Hungarian production

#also I'm very curious what these two would do with the 2005 staging (the Matè staging 😂)

todolf is alive and well.gif

#looking through the Jules Vernes book like "where can I find clues..."

I have now consulted the booklet and also song transcriptions and um yeah it goes a lot deeper than anyone thought.......

VIBE CHECK *gently presses our foreheads together*

"Zero chemistry" is so mildly put 😂

For the ones who only saw the award video - this is like, a 122% better than what happened in the production on stage.

On stage they just. Took two ends of a rope. And pulled a bit. À la whip-pulling from the German staging. But with a think rope. Except of that no eye contact or touching whatsover save for ONE moment when Der Tod stroked the cheek of a kneeling Rudolf with the butt of the gun

(@fitzrove about Rudolf - I suspect he has a condition, because one side of his face is like "frozen"; especially visible in interviews)

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???

#getting majeur Devil take the Hindmost vibes here

#phantom getting owned by Raoul

#GO DE CHAGNY!

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