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Elisabeth das Musical Textposts pt. 8

Fritz Schmid & Máté Kamarás (Vienna 2005)

Alice Macura, Kurosch Abbasi, & Mathias Edenborn (Essen 2012)

Andreas Bieber & Uwe Kröger (Vienna 1992)

Pia Douwes & Jesper Tydén (Essen 2002)

Mark Seibert & Alice Macura (Essen 2012)

💙My favorite character from my favorite musical Elisabeth!!!💙 Wow it took me YEARS to make a fan art which i like😭😭 been massive fan of Elisabeth for the past 8 years of my life, coming back to it very often. Mate Kamaras is an absolute timeless LEGEND whose acting and singing always fascinate me! 

The Little Mermaid AU maya Sissi and mate DerTod <3 (...and uwe Tod as witch)

Absolutely adore the way the Count doesn't comment anything on Euénie's love interest. This man excuses eternal desire of revenge and urge to hurt people in unimaginable ways but draws the line at homophobia

Mayerling

good work guys.

happy new yuri i mean year

The Pantone of the Opera, came to me on a whim!

art tag // commission info

Elisabeth das Musical Textposts pt. 7

Pia Douwes & Uwe Kröger (Vienna 1992)

André Bauer, Uwe Kröger, & Pia Douwes (Essen 2002)

Oliver Arno (Essen 2012)

Serkan Kaya & Máté Kamarás (Vienna 2005)

Dennis Hupka & Lukas Mayer (China Tour 2024)

Ultra-specific trope im thinking really hard about: When a character refuses to kill someone who asks them to, not out of righteousness or any care for the other person, but out of hostility or spite. No, I won’t give you what you want. I won’t let you escape this through death.

yo what dyou think that random glowing stick that lucheni picks up towards the beginning is about lol (also thank you soooo much for indirectly introducing me to elisabeth i've been obsessed)

Honestly I'm not really sure tbh but that's a good question! I've thought of it as like a balancing pole a tightrope walker has. I'm not great at this sort of analysis, but maybe then it could be because Elisabeth is at times walking a metaphorical tightrope between life and death, but then again it is not Elisabeth with it but Lucheni so I have no idea really. As to why it is glowing I can't think of anything other than it looks cool! If any one else has any thoughts I would love to hear! I don't think that many of the productions have the glow stick in, although the most well known ones do. Haha no worries, I actually stumbled upon it via a tumblr post myself and loved it, so it is cool I've managed to introduce someone in the same way!

I went to reblog the video of Szabó P. Szilveszter, Bereczki Zoltán, Dolhai Attila and Mészáros Árpád Zsolt singing Last Christmas as I do annually every holiday season, and it’s GONE. So here’s another video (unfortunately of lesser quality).

merry christmas and happy holidays 🥳

am i doing this right

wuthering heights retold as a series of airbnb reviews

@archaeos is watching phantom of the opera for the first time and keeps sending me memes

Obviously sewer.

Bonus:

A word on Benedetto’s father figures

Because I’ve been thinking about it all week. Have some parallels and contrasts, my friends:

Villefort:

Starts off Benedetto’s story extremely strongly by literally burying him alive within minutes of his birth. No one has ever failed their son harder.

Might have been onto something when he said crime spread around him and from him like a disease. Seriously, look at this family! It’s so dysfunctional in so many ways!!! If you’re a nature-over-nurture person, it’s not that far-fetched to suppose Benedetto got the Criminal Gene™ from him.

Literally changed his name to hide his compromising origins (as much as humanly possible in the spheres he frequents).

Burnt Edmond’s denunciation letter. Guess who else likes to burn things?

Is brought down by the literal unearthing of his biggest secret, which in turn concludes Benedetto’s arc.

Bertuccio:

Is, literally, the one who gave Benedetto life, and the emissary of Providence™ who shows up to bestow blessings upon him at semi-regular intervals.

Unfortunately, those gifts are always cursed. Surprise salvation from the grave in the garden? Only happens because Bertuccio tried to murder the kid’s father first, and results in what is functionally a kidnapping. Surprise adoption? Results in Benedetto being raised by a literal criminal, who is #shocked when his protege starts hanging out with ill-intentioned older boys and disciplines him with what we can reasonably assume from the unreliable narration is the good old belt. Surprise life-changing information about his origins that Bertuccio held onto all these years? Only revealed to cement Benedetto’s status as Monte-Cristo’s puppet.

Crumbled the second Benedetto questioned his ascendance, therefore drawing a clear link between authority and paternity and reinforcing the kid’s desire to defy both.

“Major Cavalcanti”:

Is just Some Guy™.

And yet, they have so much in common: both are impostors trapped in Monte-Cristo’s web, both are passionate about scamming rich people. There’s a quasi-instantaneous recognition between the two and, because they share the same goal, they develop a strangely wholesome understanding…? It’s forced coexistence as much as it is respect, but it’s not deprived of a weird sort of warmth, and Monte-Cristo himself comments on how much it looks like actual familial love. The contrast with Caderousse could not be harsher.

In virtue of his fake wealth and fake fatherhood, the Major becomes the Ultimate Authority™ ‘Andrea’ name-drops every time he wants to advance in society.

Caderousse:

Outwardly, he adopts all the attributes of a good father. He taught Benedetto most of his tricks! He feeds him! He talks of all the hardships they’ve been through together, like a family would!

But, of course, what he’s really doing is blackmailing Benedetto. Caderousse wants money, and it’s taken him a while to actually get his hands dirty, but he’s finally graduating to murder! And his silly young friend should help him if he doesn’t want his blood spilled on Place de Grève.

Anyway Benedetto stabs that guy real bad. I thought it was hilarious of him.

Danglars:

As Andrea’s future father-in-law, Danglars is his ticket towards the life of luxury without effort he has always wanted.

Of course, Danglars is using Andrea for the same reason Caderousse uses Benedetto: for money. Both of them lie about what they own, ergo about who they are, to get their hands on what they think the other has. This is especially interesting when put in perspective with the brutal honesty Danglars employs when talking to Eugénie, who he treats like a son and almost business partner rather than like a daughter (Transmasc Eugénie Truthers, rise up!).

… But of course, he still wants people to think of he and Andrea as family to strengthen his own nobility: if his son (in-law) is a prince, a title Danglars repeats ad nauseam, doesn’t that make him a king?

All things considered, despite losing their freedom (temporarily in Danglars’ case), money and status, both of them get a relatively happy ending compared to most of the cast.

Monte-Cristo:

BUCKLE UP THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING.

Twice Benedetto raises the possibility of Monte-Cristo being his biological father, a perfectly logical conclusion in light of what he has done for him; in turn, Monte-Cristo recognises Benedetto as one of God’s punishers, a title he otherwise only attributes to himself.

Both of them went through a symbolic rebirth after being buried alive.

Both of them were wrongly accused of being evil incarnate, but eventually graduated to Full-On Criminals. Talk about self-fulfilling prophecies.

Escape Artists™

Both had to completely reinvent themselves, down to their names and origins, to achieve their ambitions.

Ruined engagement ceremony!!! This also draws parallels to Villefort and, interestingly, to Valentine and Franz.

THIS:

🇫🇷 « Ce calme, cette parfaite aisance firent comprendre à Andrea qu’il était pour le moment étreint par une main plus musculeuse que la sienne, et que l’étreinte n’en pouvait être facilement brisée. »

🇬🇧 « This calm, this perfect poise told Andrea that he was presently held by a hand far stronger than his, whose grip could not be escaped easily. »

Both Edmond and Benedetto know they are prisoners of people more powerful than they are, of the narrative, of a superior power that wields them like knives; both Monte-Cristo and Andrea accept their role as knives in the hope of eventually slicing through their ties. Whether or not they succeeded in the end is up to the reader’s interpretation.

“Wir fallen, und nichts was uns hält. “

Der Tod x Graf von Krolock

Death and Immortal

Elisabeth Das Musical x MLP

集齐土豆召唤阴霾

请选择您心爱的土豆开始收割豆腐（bushi

I Made a Venn Diagram

I'm not obsessed- what do you mean?? Doesn't everyone make graphs comparing and contrasting their favorite books?

#25 on Spotify wrapped says how 2025 is going to go. how's it going for you?

How far down in your 2024 Wrapped Playlist does the first non-English language song appear?

If never, consider expanding your horizons, hmu for recs if you need them

was anyone going to tell me they added some songs from Rómeó és Júlia to spotify or was i supposed to find them myself

(note that only the four songs visible in the screenshot are what they say they are. Ez a kéz utolér is actually the last song including the bows medley, and Párbaj is actually Párisz's song + Hogy mondjam el)

— Roméo et Juliette Comparison (Austrian & Hungarian Productions) —

Left: Hungarian 2004

Right: Austrian 2005

1. Gondolj házasságra / Freu Dich auf die Hochzeit (Tu dois te marier)

2. Erkely duett / Der Balkon (Le Balcon)

3. Szívből Szeretni / Liebe (Aimer)

4. A Párbaj / Das Duell (Le Duel)

5. Rómeó Halála / Romeos Tod (La Mort de Romeo)

Hi me again. Realized I never shared this to tumblr dot com. It’s a redraw with a fav silly moment between BZ and SZpSZ

— Rebecca (1940) vs Rebecca das Musical —

Left: Rebecca (1940 movie)

Right: Rebecca das Musical (Vienna 2022, Stuttgart 2011)

I LOVE how Oli looks in this! Just look at his eyes!

that wouldn't be too painful, would it? 🎥 @theriddletrades

never not thinking about that clip of Steven Seale falling over during the Mayerling Waltz

CLUTCHING HIS PEARLS

🎥 @medium-observation

I’m obsessed with him