Elisabeth Das Musical Textposts Pt. 5

SCREAMING AND CRYING WITH THE GERMAN VERSION OF "EMPTY CHAIRS AND EMPTY TABLES"

(THE WAY HE SAYS THEIR NAMES, ESPECIALLY GRANTAIRE, ENJOLRAS -oh my gosh my jaw dropped with Enjolras- AND COURFEYRAC)

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Link to the whole performance:

i made this with utmost respect to the 2002 essen production. i love you üwe but please

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)

I love that the seeds of the count are already in edmond long before the château d'if. edmond wasn't a sweet, innocent, naive boy. he was a hothead who challenged danglars to a duel over a disagreement on their journey, he's catty with carderousse who he knows is a greedy liar and he is angry and mean towards fernand whose feelings for mercédès he immediately recognises. the only thing that saves him is his love and unwavering belief in that love being returned. without the love of his father and mercédès, without the goodwill of morrel, edmond would already be a different person, a meaner person. edmond wasn't fundamentally changed during his time in prison- the foundation of the count was long there. but only once he was truly, undeniably wronged by these people, once he lost the love he had, only with the tools he was given by abbé faria, only then did he build the count on that foundation. but the foundation was already there.

it's always love that saves in tcomc, and a lack of love that destroys. valentine is saved through maximilen's love, albert through his mother's, haydée through the count's and the count through haydée's. it's a lack of love, an absence of loved ones, a failure to love that kills fernand, that drives villefort to madness, that nearly kills danglars, that kills caderousse.

Pia Douwes & Uwe Kröger

- Elisabeth das Musical -

Left: 1992 Vienna

Right: 2002 Essen

ANNEMIEKE VAN DAM als Elisabeth und LUKAS MAYER als Der Tod

Elisabeth China Tour 2024 Shanghai Premiere (29.August 2024)

i’m going to go lie flat on some train tracks

the very beginning of Count Of Monte Cristo is so funny

it's literally like: 80 pages out of 1100 and this drastic thing has already happened?? what on earth do the other 1020 pages contain????

and then it proceeds to be one of the best books written by man

MCD Rewrite - Dante

ITS THE BABY BOYYYYYYYY!!! He makes me so happy omg

Earl Carpenter as Joe Gillis in the 2001 UK Tour of Sunset Boulevard