Valancy's Blog (7)

I finally got around to adding my photos of places related to the historical Elisabeth that I saw during my three-month stay in Switzerland last year (there are more than three photos, but because I added them in batches, the community only shows the number in my last batch). I lived in Geneva, where Elisabeth was assassinated, and I often walked along the boulevard where Lucheni had attacked her, saw the memorial plaque commemorating the place and passed by the statue of her located close to it… Continue

Here is my review of Elisabeth in Budapest. Long, as my reviews have a tendency to be.

I saw Elisabeth three times, once on Friday and twice on Sunday. (Yes, I know I’m crazy.) According to the original cast lists, I was supposed to see every actor in the cast at least once. But Operettszínház had a flu wave or something, and there were several cast changes in the performances I saw. I didn’t see Janza Kata at all, but

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I've already squeed about this in my LiveJournal, but hey, it never hurts to squee in more places. Except that some of you probably get sick of seeing it all over, but oh well.

The cast information for Elisabeth in Hungary in January has come out, and I'm getting what I most wanted! Which means that I'm seeing Szilveszter Szabó as Death twice, once with Kata Janza and once with Nikolett Füredi! And Zoltán Bereczki as Franz-Joseph and Attila Dolhai as Rudolf on both t

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I've been posting this in a couple of places already today so I feel I'm repeating myself, but I figured I would post about it now or I might forget. (Also, my brain has fallen asleep and I can't get any work done, so I'm trying to wake it up by doing something.)

I started a fanfic journal, at http://spiegelsaal.livejournal.com . It's for the purpose of posting various fanfics based on my favourite musicals or other things that

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I haven't yet added my Geneva pictures here, mostly because I noticed I didn't yet have as good pictures of the Elisabeth statue as I want, and I also still need to go and see her apartments in the Beau-Rivage Hotel. So I figured I will post all of those at the same time. But I felt like procrastinating from work for a bit and contributing a little to this site, so I've added some photos from the Budapest production of Elisabeth; some from the early 2000s production, some from the newest prod

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Am I just computer-challenged or is the comment system here really stupid? I was trying to look for a way to reply to Nikki's comment to my last post and ended up deleting it, and can't find a way to undelete it. Sorry about that. If anyone has suggestions on how to use this thing, they would be welcome. I can't seem to get much of a hang of it.

But in answer to what Nikki asked me, and as an addition to my previous post, I don't yet know what the cast will be in Bud

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I'm getting to see Elisabeth in Budapest! I'm getting to see Elisabeth in Budapest!

I and my group of musical-obsessed friends are going to Budapest in early January to see their production of Tanz der Vampire; we've already got excellent tickets reserved for that. Now we found out, when the Budapesti Operettszínház finally published their programme for the beginning of next year, that Elisabeth is playing when we are there! And my friends, despite the hellish reservation system of Tic

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