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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

How we do it in Germany: We Are These Kids by Lisanne Wiegand

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 …

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:29AM
Thursday, July 31, 2014

How We Do It in Germany: Translating by Lisanne Wiegand

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 t…

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:19AM
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

How We Do It in Germany: (New) Musical Theatre in Suburbia by Lisanne Wiegand

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 a…

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:06AM
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

How we do it in Germany: We might have overcome the ‘classic drama-musical’ by Lisanne Wiegand

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…

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:59AM
Thursday, June 19, 2014

How we do it in Germany: German (musical) Comedy – a short overview by Lisanne Wiegand

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, Schuber…

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AM
Thursday, June 5, 2014

How we do it in Germany: Society and how it affects Theatre by Lisanne Wiegand

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…

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AM
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

How we do it in Germany: On Money and the History of Production Conditions by Lisanne Wiegand

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 …

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AM
Friday, May 9, 2014

How We Do It in Germany – an Introduction by Lisanne Wiegand

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 …

SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AM
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