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It’s finally happening! After saying I wanted to do this for months, I’m finally going to be hosting streams for non-English language musicals. Every one of these musicals has English subtitles on (apart from a couple that are in English). I have a little FAQ here about the streams, but essentially anyone is welcome to join, you don’t have to know anything about musicals or have interacted with me before, and there is a text chat you can take part in if you want but there’s no pressure to.

This is the link to the room: https://kosmi.app/nrs5nx. It is open now and will continue to be open, so please don’t misbehave in there between streams. You don’t need to make an account to join, but it would be best to do so if you want to join in the chat as without an account you’ll just appear as ‘anonymous’ and several anons will make the chat confusing. There may be music playing when you join because I’ve set up a little playlist to play if anyone shows up to the stream early you can just chill for a bit with me and some music.

I’ll likely start the video up to 10 minutes after the scheduled time for anyone who is just setting things up or slightly late, but I won’t be hanging around for people for ages. Once the stream starts I will stop it in the intermission for 10 or so minutes for people to get snacks or drinks or toilet breaks. I’ll get everyone to check in when they come back and once everyone seems to be back I’ll start act 2, sorry in advance if I start act 2 and you’re not back yet, it’s hard to keep track of everyone if there’s a fair amount of people. You can still join in at any time during the stream, the room will not be closing once the video starts, I just won’t be rewinding the video for you.

I have seen a number of these musicals before and some are my favourite musicals, but I haven’t seen a lot of them before, so I can’t speak as to the quality of some of them, but at least a good amount of them I would recommend. Almost all of these are original non-English language musicals, I did put a couple of productions of Jesus Christ Superstar in here that I love and haven’t had the chance to watch all the way through yet (Amstetten Austria 2005 which is still performed in English, and 2014 Sweden). (And I definitely didn’t just add them because I love Drew Sarich and him as Judas in Amstetten 2005 and I think he’s amazing and my favourite Judas and I just want other people to fall in love with him as well). I’ve also tried to put some trigger warnings down but I haven’t watched a lot of these, but the ones that I know contain anything to do with suicidal themes I have noted.

If you want more info on European musicals while I do post about them here I also run @europeanmusicals and you can check that blog out and the posts tagged with #masterlists if you want the information posts. I have this general introduction post that I am still working on remaking into a video essay for Youtube.

The streams will happen every Saturday at 11pm UK time, which changes from BST to GMT at the end of October.

Week 1: Tanz der Vampire 2011 Berlin Production

28th of August 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German Cast: Drew Sarich (Graf von Krolock), Amelie Dobler (Sarah Chagal), Anton Zetterholm (Alfred), Veit Schafermeier (Professor Ambronsius), Kai Hüsgen (Yonie Chagal), Goele de Raedt (Magda), Marc Liebisch (Herbert von Krolock) Summary: Professor Ambronsius and his young assistant Alfred are on the hunt for vampires and stumble upon a small village. They suspect that the villagers know more about vampires than they let on, and soon discover there is a castle in the woods where the vampire Graf von Krolock and his son Herbert live. While staying at the inn, Alfred meets Sarah, the innkeeper’s daughter, her father being so overprotective that he keeps her locked in her room every day and every night. Sarah longs to escape her life and has been secretly conversing with Krolock for some time. She’s no damsel in distress, she’s attracted to him and what he offers and so she sneaks out of her home and goes to his castle. Alfred is convinced she has been kidnapped and he and the Professor go to the castle to rescue her. Things I love: Music by Jim Steinman!! Who you may better know as the song-writer of ‘Holding out for a Hero’ and ‘Totale Eclipse of the Heart). Canon lgbt characters: Graf von Krolock is very hinted at being bisexual, tries to seduce both a female and male character and mentions a past male lover, and his son Herbert is gay. And dance sequences! Amazing dance sequences!

Week 2: Elisabeth das Musical 1992 Original Vienna Production (Proshot)

4th of September 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Ethan Freeman (Luigi Lucheni), Viktor Gernot (Franz Joseph), Andreas Bieber (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Christa Wettstein (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Wolfgang Pampel (Max) Summary: The musical follows the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth ‘Sissi’, but with a supernatural twist. Her obsession with death grows as her mental health declines, as Death falls in love with her and tries to convince her to kill herself so they can be together. He watches her from her marriage to Kaiser Franz-Joseph in 1854 to her murder in 1989 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni. (None of that was a spoiler, you find out she dies at the end in the first minute of the musical). Things I love: Mental health: In particular both Elisabeth and Rudolf suffer from anxiety and depression. LGBT+ characters: death can be seen as genderfluid or non-binary, in the original production and vienna revival has scenes where he presents as male and later female, and the original actor has described him almost genderfluid in interviews. death aims to seduce both a female and a male character, and rudolf is shown as being bisexual.

(I’ve put both this version and the revival for the first two weeks. I love the original, I think Pia and Uwe are perfect in the roles. Every Der Tod/Death is different and Uwe plays him beautifully inhuman and mysterious and I find that lacking in some performances. However, the 2005 cast is still good and Serkan Kaya as Lucheni is the best and it has some extra songs. If you only want to watch one of these I recommend the following stream of the 2005 revival, but I’d really recommend watching both of them).

Week 3: Elisabeth das Musical 2005 Vienna Revival (Proshot)

11th of September 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Serkan Kaya (Luigi Lucheni), Andre Bauer (Franz Joseph), Fritz Schmid (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Johann Ebert (Young Rudolf), Luzia Nistler (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Kerstin Ibald (Gräfin Esterhazy), Sigrid Brandstetter (Helene) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 4: Rudolf: Affaire Mayerling 2009 Vienna Production (Proshot)

18th of September 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Drew Sarich (Rudolf), Lisa Antoni (Mary Vestera), Uwe Kröger (Taaffe), Carin Filipčić (Marie Gräfin Larisch), Claus Dam (Franz Joseph), Wietske van Tongeren (Stephanie), Kai Peterson (Moriz Szeps), Dennis Kozeluh (Edward, Prince of Wales), Robert D. Marx (Graf Gyula Andrássy), Sasha Di Capri (Georges Clemenceau), Martin Pasching (Wilhelm II), Kathleen Bauer (Mizzi) Summary: Based loosely on the book A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 by Frederic Morton. Based on the life of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his extramarital relationship with Baroness Mary Vetsera, as well as touching on his strained relationship with his father. Their deaths in 1889 at the Mayerling hunting lodge have long been believe to be the result of a murder-suicide pact, though some historians still debate this. It doesn’t include his equally strained relationship with his mother, in fact Elisabeth makes no appearanceat all.

(I thought this was fiting to put after Elisabeth as it’s about the same Rudolf, the same historical figure as who’s in Elisabeth).

Week 5: Rebecca das Musical 2011 Stuttgart Production

25th of September 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German Cast: Christina Patten (Ich u/s), Jan Ammann (Maxim de Winter), Pia Douwes (Mrs Danvers), Kerstin Ibald (Beatrice Lacy), Carl van Wegberg (Jack Favell u/s), Matthias Graf (Frank Crawley), Isabel Dörfler (Mrs Van Hopper), Oliver Heim (Ben), Giles (Raphael Dörr) Summary: Based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The second Mrs. de Winter (credited as ‘Ich’ (German for ‘I’) in the musical) falls in love with Maxim de Winter and the two quickly get married and she moves to his large estate in England, Manderly. She soon learns that all Maxim’s staff loved his first wife, Rebecca, and find her quite strange. Non more so than the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, who’s devotion and love to her former mistress seems to go beyond that of a housekeeper, and seems to talk as if Rebecca’s ghost was in the air around them. As time progresses the nature of who Rebecca was and how she died starts to come into question.

Week 6: Notre Dame de Paris 1998 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

2nd of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: French TW: sexual assault Cast: Hélène Ségara (Esmeralda), Garou (Quasimodo), Daniel Lavoie (Frollo), Bruno Pelletier (Gringoire), Patrick Fiori (Phoebus), Luck Marvil (Clopin), Julie Zenatti (Fleur-de-Lys) Summary: Based on Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Quasimodo, a hunchback who spends his life hidden in Notre Dame, falls in love with the bohemian girl Esmerelda, but she is in love with Phoebus, the fiance of Fleur-de-Lys. Meanwhile, Frollo, the priest of Notre-Dame, feels uncontrolled and violent desires for Esmerelda. This musical has a much darker tone and ending than the Disney one (Random fact, according to the Guinness Book of Records, had the most successful first year of any musical ever.)

Week 7: Mozart das Musical 2015 Vienna Revival (Proshot)

9th of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German Cast: Oedo Kuipers (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Mark Seibert (Prince-Archbishop Colloredo), Franziska Schuster (Constance Weber), Thomas Borchert (Leopold Mozart), Barbara Obermeier (Nannerl Mozart), Ana Milva Gomes (Baronin van Waldstätten), Brigitte Oelke (Cecilia Weber) Johannes Glück (Emanuel Schikaneder), Jon Geoffrey Goldsworthy (Graf Arco), Stefan Poslovski (Fridolin Weber) Summary: Based on the life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The musical starts with Mozart leaving the employment of Prince-Archbishop Colloredo and travelling through Europe, and focus on his relationship with his wife Constanze, his friend a collaborate Emanuel Schikaneder, his sister, his on-and-off employer Colloredo, and his deteriorating relationship with his father.

Week 8: 3 Musketiers 2003 Original Netherlands Production (Proshot)

16th of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: Dutch Cast: Bastiaan Ragas (D'Artagnan),Tooske Breugem (Constance), Henk Poort (Athos), Cees Geel (Porthos), Rein Kolpa (Aramis), Pia Douwes (Milady De Winter), Stanley Burleson (Cardinal Richelieu), Ellen Evers (Queen Anna), Christo van Klaveren (King Louis XIII/Theatre Leader), Bart de Vries (Lord Buckingham/D'Artagnan's Father), Ids van der Krieke (Rochefort/James) Summary: D’Artagnan wants nothing more than to be a musketeer just like his father, but his father disproves. After his father’s death, D’Artagnan decides to find his destiny and sets of to Paris, where he accidentally encounters Athos, Porthos and Aramis - three of the king’s most loyal musketeers. Meanwhile, Cardinal Richelieu plots to turn the King Louis XII and Queen Anne against each other as he wants to wipe out the Huguenots (Protestants) and keeps Milady de Winter under his thumb as a spy. D’Artagnan falls in love with Constance, the handmaiden to the Queen, and is entrusted by her with a mission that takes him to England. The two vow to see each other again. Athos tries to move on from the ghost of his past love, but perhaps she not a ghost after all.

Week 9: Jesus Christ Superstar 2005 Amstetten Production (Proshot)

23rd of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: English TW: suicidal themes Cast: Steven Seale (Jesus Christ), Drew Sarich (Judas Iscariot), Kudra Owens (Mary Magdalene), Rob Fowler (Pontius Pilate), Tom Tucker (Caiaphas), Eric Minsk (Annas), Pehtom Quirante (King Herod), Ronnie Vero Wagner (Simon Zealotes), Ivo Chundro (Peter) Summary:

Week 10: Dracula the Musical 2008 Graz Production (Proshot)

30th of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German Cast: Thomas Borchert (Dracula), Lyn Liechty (Mina Murray), Jesper Tydén (Jonathan Harker), Uwe Kröger (Professor Abraham van Helsing), Caroline Vasicek (Lucy Westenra), Eric Minsk (Renfield), Lucius Wolter (Arthur Holmwood), Rory Six (Dr. Jack Seward), Robert D. Marx (Quincey Morris), Marion Furtner & Stefanie Tydén & Bucky van Zijl (Dracula's brides) Summary: A retelling of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer from England, travels to Translvania to meet with Count Dracula. However, the Count notices a picture of Jonathan’s fiancee Mina Murray and becomes obsessed with finding the women in the picture. (Originally a Broadway musicals, but it was re-written for it’s St Gallen production and then re-written again with extra songs for the Graz production.)

Week 11: Demon Onegin / Onegin’s Demon 2016 Original St Petersburg Production

6th of November 11pm GMT (UK will have left daylight savings time) Language: russian Cast: Ivan Ozhogin (Eugene Onegin) Summary: Based on the 1837 Russian novel Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. In 1820s St. Petersburg, Eugene Onegin is bored of his life of balls, concert and parties. When his wealthy uncle dies, leaving him a fortune and an estate, he moved to the countryside. He soon discovers this new life is not what he thought it would be, and struggles to emphathize and relate to his new friends and neighbours. He is selfish and cold and lives to regret his blasé rejection of a young woman’s love for him and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend.

Week 12: Der Graf von Monte Cristo 2009 Original Swiss Production (Proshot)

13th of November 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Thomas Borchert (Edmond Dantès), Sophie Berner (Mercédès), Fernand, Carsten Lepper (Mondego), Christoph Goetten (Gérard von Villefort), Karim Khawatmi (Baron Danglars), Dean Welterlen (Abbé Faria), Kurt Schrepfer (Jacopo), Daniel Berini (Albert Mondego), Barbara Obermeier (Valentine de Villefort), Ava Brannan (Vuisa Vampa), André Bauer (Morrel) Summary: Based on the 1844 novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas. Edmond Dantès is set to be happily married, but is fasley accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trail on a grim island fortress. While in prison he and a fellow prisoner Abbé Faria work out that he was set up by his friend Fernand Mondego, who is secretly in love with Dantès’ fiancee, his crewmate Danglars who is jealous that Dantès got promoted over him, and the magistrate De Villefort, who sent him to prison knowing he was innocent because the true criminal was his own father. Dantès plans to escape, return home, and take his revenge.

Week 13: Mozart L’Opéra Rock 2010 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

20th of November 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Mikelangelo Loconte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Florent Mothe (Antonio Salieri), Claire Perot (Constanze Weber), Melissa Mars (Aloysia Weber), Maeva Méline (Nannerl Mozart), Solal (Leopold Mozart), Yamin Dib (Count Rosenberg), Merwan Rim (Innkeeper/Clown), Delphine Grandsart (Cäcilia Weber), Estelle Micheau (The Diva), Jocelyne Sand (Anna Maria Mozart), Mathias Jung (Colloredo/The Stranger), Patrice Maktav (Lorenzo da Ponte), Jean-Michel Meunier (Fridolin Weber/Joseph II), Marjolaine Piémont (Josepha Weber), Laurie Peret (Sophie Weber), Nuno Resende (Gottlieb Stephanie) Summary: Based on the life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It starts with Mozart leaving the employment of Prince-Archbishop Colloredo and travelling around Europe, just as Mozart das Musical does. However, this musical focuses more on Mozart’s time in Vienna and his relationship with fellow composer and rival Antonio Salieri, while also looking at the relationship with his wife and his father.

Week 14: Roméo et Juliette 2001 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

27th of November 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Damien Sargue (Romeo Montague), Cécilia Cara (Juliet Capulet), Tom Ross (Tybalt), Philippe D'Avilla (Mercutio), Grégori Baquet (Benvolio), Eléonore Beaulieu (Lady Montague), Isabelle Ferron (Lady Capulet), Réjane Perry (The Nurse), Sébastian El Chato (Lord Capulet), Jean Claude-Hadida (Friar Laurent), Frederic Charter (The Prince), Essaï (Paris), Serge Le Borgne (The Poet), Anne Mano (Death) Summary: Based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. An age-old fued between the Capulet and the Montague families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues decide to show up to the Capulet’s ball, where Romeo Montague instantly calls in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her cousin Paris.

Week 15: Jesus Christ Superstar 2014 Swedish Area Tour (Proshot)

4th of December 11pm GMT Language: Swedish TW: suicidal themes Cast: Ola Salo (Jesus Christ), Peter Johansson (Judas Iscariot), Gunilla Backman (Mary Magdalene) Summary:

Week 16: The Last Trial 2016 Russian Production (Proshot)

10th of December 11pm GMT Language: Russian Cast: Evgeny Egorov (Raistlin Majere), Elena Minina (Crysania), Andrey Lobashov (Caramon Majere), Vera Zudina (Takhisis), Alexey Tolstorkorov (King-Priest), Irina Kruglova (Tika), and Anton Kruglov (Dalamar) Summary: The dark mage Raistlin Majere seeks to descend into the Abyss and overthrow his mentor, the dark goddess Takhisis, and take her place as a god. To achieve this goal, he recruits his twin brother Caramon and the innocent cleric Crysania into helping him. But when Raistlin falls in love with Crysania, his bond with Caramon begins to deteriorate, and Takhisis begins to taunt him about his shortcomings, how high of a cost is he willing to pay to achieve godhood?

Week 17: Les Dix Commandements 2001 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

18th of December 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary:

! Skipping two weeks as both Christmas day and News Years day land on Saturdays !

Week 18: I Am From Austria 2019 Original Vienna Production (Proshot)

8th of January 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Iréna Flury (Emma Carter), Lukas Perman (Josi Edler), Elisabeth Engstler (Romy Edler), Andreas Steppan (Wolfgang Edler), Martin Bermoser (Richard Rattinger), Dolores Schmidinger (Elfie Schratt), Matthias Trattner (Felix Moser), Karim Ben Mansur (Pablo García), Martin Berger (Rainer Berger) Summary:

Week 19: 1789: Les amants de la Bastille 2012 Original Paris Cast (Proshot)

15th of January 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Louis Delort (Ronan), Camille Lou (Olympe), Rod Janois (Camille Desmoulins), Roxane Le Texier (Marie Antoinette), Sébastien Agius (Maximilien de Robespierre), Nathalia (Solène), Mathieu Carnot (Lazare), David Ban (Georges Jacques Danton), Yamin Dib (Auguste Ramard), Charlie Loiselier (Sonia Ben Ammar/Morgane Rouault/Elisa Bergomi/Eva Baranes), Philippe Escande (Louis XVI), Tatiana Matre (Yolande de Polignac), Guillaume Delvingt (Jacques Necker), Cyril Romoli (Charles X of France) Summary: Set in France during the rule of King Louis XVI, a found revolutionary named Ronan wants to take down Paris after his father is killed by a nobleman. When he arrives in Paris, he encounters and falls in love with Olympe, an assistant governess to the children of Marie Antoinette. But can their love endure as their classes collide and they are separated, determined to find each other again.

Week 21: Le Roi Soleil 2005 Original Paris Cast (Proshot)

22nd of January 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary: Based on the life of King Louis XIV of France. The musical follows Louis from when he is first consecrated King at Reims until his marriage. The musical focuses on Louis’ many relationship with Marie Mancini, an Italian emigrant without nobel birth and his fall in battle that leads his people to believe he is dead, and the fights and opposition his family, the court, and the church have to him wanting to marry someone not of nobel birth.

Week 20: Elisabeth das Musical 2002 Essen Production (Proshot)

29th of January 11pm GMT Language: German TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Carsten Lepper (Luigi Lucheni), Andre Bauer (Franz Joseph), Jesper Tydén (Rudolf) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 21: Roméo et Juliette 2004 Hungarian Production (Proshot)

5th of February 11pm GMT Language: Hungarian Cast: Dolhai Attila (Romeo Montague), Szinetár Dóra (Juliet Capulet), Szabó P.Szilveszter (Tybalt), Bereczki Zoltán (Mercutio), Mészáros Árpád Zsolt (Benvolio), Csengery Ottília (Lady Montague), Janza Kata (Lady Capulet), Náray Erika (The Nurse), Csuha Lajos (Lord Capulet), Földes Tamás (Friar Laurent), Németh Attila (The Prince), Homonnay Zsolt (Paris) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 22: Elisabeth das Musical 2004 Budapest Production (Proshot)

12th of February 11pm GMT Language: Hungarian TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Janza Kata (Elisabeth), Szabó P. Szilvester (Der Tod), Földes Tamás (Luigi Lucheni), Bereczki Zoltán (Franz Joseph), Dolhai Attila (Rudolf) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 23: Roméo et Juliette 2010 Paris Revival (Proshot)

19th of February 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Damien Sargue (Romeo Montague), Joy Esther (Juliet Capulet), Tom Ross (Tybalt), John Eyzen (Mercutio), Cyril Niccolaï (Benvolio), Brigitte Venditti (Lady Montague), Stéphanie Rodrigue (Lady Capulet), Ida Gordon (The Nurse), Sébastian El Chato (Lord Capulet), Frédéric Charter (Friar Laurent), Stéphane Métro (The Prince), Arié Itah (Paris), Serge Le Borgne (The Poet) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 24: Le Rouge et le Noir 2016 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

26th of February 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary: A French comedy musical based on the novel The Red and the Black by Stendhal. Set during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, it tells the story of Julian Sorel’s life in France’s rigid social structure that has now been restored to what it was before the French Revolution. Julian attempts to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception and hypocrisy.

Week 25: Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte 2009 Original Paris Produciton

5th of March 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary:

Week 26: Adam et Ève: La Seconde Chance 2012 Original Paris Production

12th of March 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary: A retelling of Adam and Eve. Eden is a major city populated by humans. Solus is about to annonce the marriage of his daughter Lilith to Adam, a general-in-chief of the soldiers of Eden. The end of his speech is interrupted by the rebels, lead by a man called Snake, who have been driven out of the city walls by Solus’ rule. Adam and the other soldiers fight them, but Adam’s attention is captivate by one of the revels, Eve. As Adam and Lilith prepare to say their vows, the revels intervene and Eve convinces Adam to go with her. Solus and Lilith are enraged, and are determined to get Adam back and punish Eve and the other rebels.

Week 27: Ein Wenig Farbe (A Touch of Colour) Original 2018 Vienna Production

19th of March 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Pia Douwes (Helena) Summary: A musical with only one character, Helena, a trans woman, who recounts her life.

Week 28: Artus Excalibur 2014 Original St Gallen Production Proshot

26th of March 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Patrick Stanke (Arthur), Annemieke van Dam (Guinevere), Mark Seibert (Lancelot), Thomas Borchert (Merlin), Sabrina Weckerlin (Morgana), Alexander Bellinkx (Ector), Robert Johansson (Loth), Kevin Foster (Sir Gareth) Summary: Based on the legends of King Arthur. Uther Pendragon lusts after the beautiful Igraine and makes a deal with the wizard Merlin to magically disguise him as Igraine’s husband so he can sleep with her. Igraine becomes pregnant with Uther’s child and dies giving birth to him. Merlin names the child Arthur and takes him away to be raised by Sir Ector. In his anger, Uther violates his daughter Morgana before banishing her to a nunnery. Years later after Uther dies, Merlin places the sword Excalibur in a stone and says whoever can pull it out is the next true King of England. Arthur goes to the stone with his best friend Lancelot, and manages to pull the sword from the stone. Arthur now has to deal with suddenly being King, learning his childhood was a lie, the threat of his jealous half-sister, and falling in love and the betrayal it will bring.

Week 29: La Légende du roi Arthur 2015 Original Paris Production Proshot

2nd of April 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Florent Mothe (Arthur), Zaho (Morgan le Fay), Camille Lou (Guinevere), Charlie Boisseau (Lancelot), Fabien Incardona (Maleagant) Summary: Based on the legends of King Arthur. The musical opens with members of nobility trying to pull Excalibur from the stone, but in the end it is Arthur, a young groom in the service of his adoptive brother, who pulls the sword free. The Kingdom turns their nose up at the idea of a King from lowly birth, but when Merlin reveals Arthur’s true lineage as the son of the last King, some refuse to accept the rule of an illegitimate royal child and declare war.

Week 30: Der Besuch der alten Dame Vienna Boot

9th of April 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Pia Douwes (Claire Zachanassian), Uwe Kr ger (Alfred Ill), Ethan Freeman (Klaus Brandstetter) Summary: Based on the play The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Claire Zachanassian is an enormously wealthy older woman who returns to her hometown with a terrible bargain for the townspeople. She wants them to kill the man who got her pregnant and then abandoned her. In exchange she will give them all enough money to revitalize the decrepit town.

I may find more musicals with English subtitles and more people may make and upload ones with English subtitles so just because the list ends here doesn’t mean there won’t ever be more streams after this. (There’s been 2 updates so far.)

I cannot believe how much time this is lasting?! So, if anything happens in my life that means I can’t still host streams in 6 months time please don’t get angry at me and understand I cannot see that far into the future.

If anything happens that means a stream can’t happen one week, everything will be pushed back one week. If this or anything else happens that effects this schedule I’ll post about it and tag it with ‘#emptymasks musical streams’

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Where to watch and listen to non-English language musicals?

I’ve been thinking about making a post like this for a while but wondered hm do I want to be giving out links to free downloads of musical audios publicly when really I want to promote people still buying CDs because one, it supports the artists, and two, I think it’s better to own things still rather than just own things digitally. But I found an extra treasure trove I didn’t know about before and I feel a need to share because I didn’t make it, it’s already online, so why shouldn’t I tell people about it? And then this was just going to be for audios and not videos and I was going to make a separate post but figured it would be easier if all the info was on one post. I actually was going to post this on my sideblog @europeanmuscials but I accidentally made the draft under my main blog which meant I couldn’t change it later and I couldn’t be bothered to cope and paste and redo all the images and tags because I didn’t save the images I just copy and pasted them so oh well.

Purchasing

So as I always preface when I share info on where to stream musicals, PLEASE try always support the artists by buying CDs and DVDs! I know a lot of the musicals here are 10/20+ years old and you cannot get the CDs anywhere anymore, but when a new musical comes out please try and get the CD without instatnly looking for a download. You can purchase non-English language musical CDs, DVDs and other merch from places like soundofmusic-shop.de or Ebay, or Yahoo Auctions for Japanese musicals, using a proxy shipping service, I personally use ZenMarket. Those are how I’ve gotten all of mine, getting them off Ebay or Yahoo Auctions means they’ll likely be second hand and there is nothing wrong or weird about buying second hand goods.

Streaming Audio

Spotify. A lot of German and French musicals are on Youtube. I have a series of playlists that will help you find them easily: one is my favourite songs from a bunch of different non-English language musicals, one of songs from solo albums from European and Asian musical theatre artists, and this one which is going to be the most help that is a huge playlist of every single full cast album of every non-English musical cast album I have found on Spotify. Please let me know if I’ve missed any on there and I’ll add them.

Youtube. Some official cast albums are also on Youtube, normally official uploads that match the Spotify uploads. Ones I know of that aren’t on Spotify for example is the original 2003 Dutch production of one of my favourite musicals 3 Musketiers and the 2005 German production of it.

Streaming Video

I want to preface this with how unlike Broadway and the West End, it’s fairly common for European musicals to get proshots and DVD and Bluray releases and so you don’t normally need to resort to looking for bootleg videos and can watch and purchase the pretty official proshots instead.

Youtube. There’s so many different channels uploading them to Youtube that for ease I made a playlist of every full length production on Youtube starting with the ones that have English subtitles. I also have playlists for different individual musicals and misc European musicals that are full of shorter videos: clips, interviews, behind the scenes, concert performances and other videos that aren’t full length production videos. These playlists are constantly updated.

Bilibili. A Chinese video sharing website. It has a lot Asian musicals of course, but European musicals, in particular French and German ones, have a very dedicated fanbase in Asia and so there are a lot of videos on here. You can search for then using the English/Roman alphabet and they normally come up fine. Easiest way I search on there is using the name of the musical/actor and a year.

VK. A Russian social media similar to Facebook. There are multiple fanpages for specific actors and musicals where I’ve found videos, but you can also search over all of VK. You might need an account to do this, I don’t remember but I think you do and that’s why I made one there. Here’s links to fanpages for Drew Sarich, Jan Ammann, Mark Seibert and Thomas Borchert.

Downloading Audio

r/castrecordings on Reddit. It’s a community of traders and you can make a reply to their request threads for the month asking if anyone has the audio you’re looking for, but please check first to see if it’s already been uploaded. I have downloaded many audios off there and I also have uploaded audios to there if I see someone request something that I have because I feel that it’s only fair for me to help others out there when I’ve downloaded things off there so many times. Be aware download links on here often get deleted and so a lot of older posts don’t have working download links anymore, but you can just request for a new working download on the request threads.

archive.org. Now I would never have thought of looking there, but I was on there because they have a lot of old silent films and so I was looking to watch the original Phantom of the Opera film and when I searched Phantom I was surprised by some cast albums that came up. So I wondered what would happen if I just looked at audios and oh I have found a wonderful little treasure trove. User musical_lover_1980 has uploaded over 1 thousand cast albums of Broadway, West End and non-English language musicals and a few film soundtracks. A lot of ones on there I’ve found before on r/castrecordings, but I was so happy to find a number that I didn’t already have. There’s even one Takarazuka album on there, which isn’t a lot but do you know how rare and hard those things are to find. And the Korean Frankenstein musical cast album!!

EDIT: also the account @ WennLi3b3 on archive.org is uploading audios and proshot videos

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