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I FORGOT TO POST THIS???
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securityholograms · 2 days
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Pavel Režný as Smrt (Der Tod) in Elisabeth
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antynous · 10 hours
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I love Elisabeth I wish Austria was real
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jon-withnoh · 3 days
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Give me the hot Elisabeth and Rebecca takes!
Sure thing! (Oh boy this turned out long.)
Elisabeth disclaimer: this is purely based on vibes. I have some knowledge of the historical background, but it’s not really my field of study.
Rebecca disclaimer: this is my field of study and I have very strong opinions on it, though I do not claim that I am always correct. I do however maintain that I could back up many of my claims if I had the time to do proper textual analysis and read secondary sources.
I genuinely think Elisabeth (the musical as it was written) is a masterpiece. The framing device, the way certain melodies mirror each other to foreshadow events or indicate character development — it’s amazing! Plus, the music is ridiculously good. 100/10. I love this musical.
Most stagings/recordings of Elisabeth since 2012 though? More than questionable. Levay/Kunze musicals in general appear to be following a pattern where the original production and a maybe one or two productions after it are full of nuance and complexity, only to have that complexity broken down and reduced over time. That is no fault of the musical itself, but a worrying trend of not trusting audience to be able to handle nuance and trying to make every element of a production more palatable and easier to handle. I hate it. Both the 1992 and the 2005 Wien productions have so much to recommend them (I can’t speak for the German productions but would humbly turn over the questions to more Elisabeth-versed mutuals like @fitzrove), but it all seems to be going downhill.
HOT TAKE: I think bringing on more and more “Broadway-sounding” performers to do both Elisabeth and Rebecca is a mistake. For me, Levay/Kunze shows have a very specific sound to them, a sound that fits into European musical theatre and makes sense for when and where they were created. Hiring almost exclusively people with a way more modern, belt-y sound is not a direction I personally like for these shows. Don’t get me wrong, this is not about any specific performers, it’s about trying to change the sound of these shows into something more akin to a big Broadway musical and that really doesn’t work for me. Both Elisabeth and Rebecca are so idiosyncratic in how they sound and how they’re written, trying to make them fit into a mould they don’t belong in does them a disservice. (Looking at you, VBW.)
Maybe not a hot take: but I love the 2005 Wien production of Elisabeth so much. It was my first exposure to the musical and remains my go-to cast album. It certainly has faults and I totally understand why people might gravitate towards different productions, but since I haven’t listened to the full 1992 Wien and 2001 Essen (?) productions yet, I can only compare it to 2012.
REBECCA HOT TAKE: Michael Kunze has stated that he views Rebecca as first and foremost a love story and I think he is WRONG. Daphne du Maurier herself would probably think he was wrong (seeing as she hated the story being described as a romance). This is a core problem with Rebecca das Musical. There are many things to love (Danny, Danny, Beatrice, and did I mention Danny?), but in my opinion, the whole “this is a great love story” angle does it a huge disservice. Let’s make it weirder! Let’s make it as bleak as it fucking is! (Probably not a crowd pleaser but let me have my fun).
Rebecca the musical could have done with some serious editing.
The Magdeburg production of Rebecca, which I am aware was not very accessible to a lot of people, might be one of the best productions of Rebecca ever. Kerstin Ibald absolutely knocked it out of the park with her Mrs Danvers and gave her all the nuance and emotion we so desperately crave. Her Danny is so broken, so lost. Patrick Stanke’s Maxim strikes the perfect balance between the haughty upperclass Englishman who takes kind of a fatherly tone with his young wive, and the haunted, jealous husband who absolutely did murder his first wife. Also in this production Maxim and Ich finally have some chemistry! This production’s Ich (Sibylle Lambrecht, I think) has such a great character arc and it is completely believable that she is into Maxim, even (or especially??) after his confession. Plus, the set design was amazing!!!
More Rebecca hot takes that I’ve definitely brought up before: I know we all like to write Ich as a repressed queer woman who ends up not being all that into Maxim, but honestly, she probably is very attracted to him. We can speculate about the why, but like, it is strongly implied that they have sex for the first time shortly after Maxim’s confession. She wants him.
I maintain and will die on this hill that making Danny sing “Ich liebte sie, doch sie hat mich verraten” is a mistake. I mean, yes please let Danny tell us she loved Rebecca, but come on. Danny doesn’t lose her faith in Rebecca. She doesn’t stop idolising Rebecca. Whatever her reasons for setting Manderley on fire may be it’s not that she thinks Rebecca betrayed her. I don’t even think Danny thinks highly enough of herself to even consider feeling betrayed by Rebecca. Rebecca is god to her.
I definitely have more, but this post is really long and I’m running out of steam… Hope you enjoyed!
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aboutyoutoo · 19 hours
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These are all from a folder in my phone called "poorly made memes". there's no consistency here idk you can just have all of them.
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perplexingly · 19 days
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A quick Die Schatten warden länger doodle
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Wanna share with you my musical bookmarks project ❤️
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emilydickinsonsghost · 5 months
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It’s so funny to me when gay mentally ill nerds on the internet put more historical research into their fucked up homoerotic fanfiction than major networks do for their period dramas
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potatosonnet · 5 months
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Requests from plurk; JVJ be thinking abt which one of them abc gays is Marius
Joly/Musichetta and Elisabeth nostalgia
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jjick00 · 4 months
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Das musical Elisabeth 2006 (Der Tod) x 夜访吸血鬼interview with the vampire 1994 (Louis)
crossover
death is based on actor olegg vynnyk from the german version.
Most deaths won't interest Louis (since he's just the sissi's lover). However, Olegg Death tends to be a bit smug (I think he takes after Pia sissi, lol), so he might be interested in Louis, who adores Death. It's so sad and beautiful to see Louis carefully kissing someone he can't reach.
And Death is damn good looking. Look at the shiny blonde hair. This is a commission I don’t regret one bit.
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jubigiuu · 9 months
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Hi 🧍 umh i might have developed a fascination for the takarazuka plays... And miss Asumi Rio in particular... I've only watched a few but she inspired me so much, maybe here on Tumblr there's more of an audience for this i don't know uftxfjxjhsry
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and just a sketch that i didn't post (as far as i remember..ok)
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trashpidgeon48 · 2 months
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You consume happy media when you’re feeling bad? Nah, I consume inescapable tragedies.
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antynous · 2 months
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Die schatten werden länger….
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sevvrael · 1 month
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SELLING PRINTS TO SUPPORT PALESTINE
||REBLOGS GREATLY APPRECIATED|| Hello everyone, from now until the foreseeable future I will be donating all proceeds from my Etsy shop to @/careforgaza on Twitter! >> https://www.etsy.com/shop/sevvrael << This includes these Spirk, Elisabeth Das Musical, and Mozart Das Musical prints:
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lorvikk · 4 months
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Catradora wearing the clothes of Elisabeth and Death from Elisabeth Das Musical commissioned by @blackcur-rants for @forestelfin
✨ commission info ✨
reminder that I only post commissions on my own blog by request of the commissioner
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