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- Favorite Elisabeth production?
- Vienna, 2005
- Favorite (or dream) Elisabeth/Tod Pairing?
- Maike Boerdam/Máté Kamarás
- Favorite scene?
- Die Schatten Werden Länger
- How did you become an Elisabeth fan?
- Quite an obscure connection actually, I'm a huge fan of Drew Sarich and was watching a Donauinselfest performance of Die Schatten Werden Länger with Máté Kamarás . Fell in love with the song, and discovered the show. I listen to it in all but Japanese now, but my favorite languages to listen are Hungarian and German.
- Favorite Elisabeth/Tod/Lucheni/Franz Joseph/Rudolf?
- Elisabeth: Maike Boerdam, Maya Hakvoort
der Tod: Máté Kamarás, Jesper Tydén, Szilveszter Szabó
Lucheni: Serkan Kaya
Franz Joseph: No preference
Rudolf: Jesper Tydén, Attila Dolhai
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I have been reading about the debacle of "Tanz der Vampire" on Broadway. I saw a clip on YouTube from the Broadway version and it was almost painful to watch. Wonder why they didn't respect the original concept more? Did they perhaps underestimate the American audience? I think there is some great music in that musical. Has Drew ever sung any Graf von Krolock songs? If he has a deep range, then he should be able to sing it.
Returning to our previous discussion about American singers in Vienna, isn't it interesting that the German-language fans are absolutely gutted that Steve Barton died so young? I heard Uwe Kröger sing a duet from "Tanz der Vampire" and his voice wasn't nearly dark and dangerous enough for me. Thomas Borchert is a good Krolock, as is Máté Kamarás in my opinion. But of course - as always - people are in total disagreement about whose good and whose not. The only thing people seem to agree on is that is sad about Steve Barton.
I wasn't really aware that the Disney version had such good music in it. I must say, I am sometimes slightly wary of Disney, because I think that they sometimes take the soul of the the stories that they put through the Disney machine. However, I must admit that the gargoyles were rather endearing here. But then, I have a soft spot for gargoyles anyway.
Actually, I was positively surprised that André Bauer was so convincing. Perhaps it's the Franz Joseph-role that keeps him rather anonymous in "Elisabeth". This role suited him much better; it gives him the opportunity to show his craft more.
By the way, do you know what type of voice Drew is? Tenor? The Rudolf role (in "Elisabeth" is for a tenor, isn't it?) Because sometimes he sounds a little lower than a tenor, I was wondering whether he might be a high baritone. Did he actually perform as Rudolf (in "Elisabeth")? If he is a baritone then wouldn't he be able to sing as Death? Now that would really be something!
I don't know him so well so I checked out YouTube and found a fairly old clip with him and Máté Kamarás (Do you know whether they get on? They seemed a little cool on stage - at that time) and an even better one of him and Thomas Borchert singing "Let it Be" together.
At the time of the Máté clip I thought I detected the slightest of an American "r" and vowel sound in "fressen" in "Die Schatten werden länger". Máté of course as a rather endearing Hungarian "r" in his German as well. Some people are bothered by such details, but I like to look at it from the other side. Isn't it fantastic that all of these wonderful singers are willing to put in the effort? Besides I think it would be a pity if they all spoke squeaky clean high German. I don't know about Drew, but if he's married to an Austrian, don't you think he's got an Austrian accent by now? Máté certainly does ... juicy idioms and everything!
And then there are of all the others: Jesper Tydén (Swedish) and Maya + Pia (Dutch) etc.
Well, I thought as much! I just wanted to drop a line, just in case.
About the visa bit..., I heard it on YouTube, so who knows? But what they said was that he was married to an Austrian, working in England at that time and as an American had visa problems, which prevented him from attending the press conference. They were perhaps trying to be cute, as well as covering all bases.
By the way, I am always so impressed when performers can do shows at a professional level in different languages. It shows dedication as well as a talent for languages.
I am new here so I am still trying to find my way around. Your question is from last year so perhaps you know the answer already. Drew Sarich is in the Vienna production right now. It says so on the Vereinigten Bühnen Wien-homepage. But you probably know this by now. Funnily enough, he wasn't present at the press conference, because there had been a mix up with his visa, but he seems to be in Vienna in the musical right now, according the the VBW-homepage.
The rumours also have Wietske van Tongeren for Rudolf's wife Stephanie, Carin Filipcic for Countess Larisch, and Uwe Kröger for Taaffe. I'm excited about all but the last, who I vehemently hope will not be true...
It's interesting all the different ways in which people have discovered this musical. By the way, as a Drew fan you might be interested to hear - if you didn't know it already, that is - that Drew is rumoured to play Rudolf in Frank Wildhorn's Rudolf musical that is to premiere in Vienna in the beginning of the next year.