Thanks to the Youtube channel ACI01 I have been introduced to European musicals. And I have been mesmerized by them ever since. The most recent one has been Elizabeth das Musical and it’s songs Der Letzte Tanz (The Last Dance) and Wenn Ich Tanzen Will (When I Want to Dance) are the ones in which I love to watch Der Tod (Death) again and again. I am glad to come across the YouTube channel Fitzrove…
I always talk to my therapist about my interests and I remember when i initially got into elisabeth: das musical I told her about it towards the end of a session and she was really interested so she asked me where she could watch it so we could talk about it in detail next time, I told her where to find the 1992 proshot since i like that one better than the 2005 one, so then we talked about it a week later and. I mustve talked a little too much about rudolf because at some point shes asks me "so, you kin him?" but like, in therapist-speak, and I get really flustered and I rush to explain to her that being compared to him like that makes me feel bad and also that i dont think about him a lot because hes in any way relatable to me, i think about him a lot because he has a little gay thing going on w/ a hot androgynous guy. And for the record, me being so flustered has nothing to do with rudolf specifically, i just react very badly to historical media for some reason, like elisabeth is a real outlier as far as my interests go, i wouldve reacted the same way if you compared me to any other historical guy. but anyway, i was just thinking about that again because at the time i didnt really think about it but now Im like. hey madame therapist what do you mean, do i kin the guy who kills himself???
Wenn ich dein Spiegel wär is such a lyric. lyric of all time
Wenn ich dein Spiegel wär because then you would be able to more easily recognize how similar we are but also wenn ich dein Spiegel wär because you only care about yourself but also wenn ich dein Spiegel wär because you care so much about your appearance but you only do that because it's the only weapon you've had for so long just like i've also been so alone in court and it all ties back to how similar we are but you don't care but maybe you would wenn ich dein Spiegel wär!!!!!!!!!
Imagine the amount of "what the fuck did I just witness" going through the minds of Vienna audiences when they first saw the An Deck den sinkenden Welt/Franz Joseph's Nightmare scene from Elisabeth das musical in 1992.
Rudolf ist offensichtlich nicht hetero. Schwul ist Deutungssache aber er ist mindestens bi. Also warum gab es keinen Kuss? Skandalös ist das. Es geht nicht nur um die Metapher dahinter es geht ums Prinzip. Also ich hätte Mark Seibert geküsst.
Andreas Bieber (original cast Rudolf in Elisabeth) commenting on Elisabeth Schönbrunn at a stage door, 2022
(in English: “Rudolf is obviously not straight. Gay is a matter of interpretation, but he’s at least bi. So why wasn’t there a kiss? It’s scandalous. It’s not just about the metaphor behind it, it’s about the principle. So I would have kissed Mark Seibert.”)
fave thing about ethan freeman’s lucheni is that he just constantly looks like he needs a break and he’s not afraid of the narrative he’s just incredibly irritated by it. the music starts and he sighs the sigh of a tired tired man