the beautiful regie is empty
Our most recent Regie puzzler was telecast tonight, but La Cieca thinks her cher public will need no more than a sound clip and a review from the production to make the identity of the work plain:
Friedrichstadtpalast meets Christopher Street Day: Alles, was hier nicht glitzert, ist nackte Haut. Otto Pichler hat supersexy Choreografien für die durchtrainierten Körper erfunden, beim Opening ist die Bühne ein einziger Wirbel aus Armen, Beinen, Busen und Waschbrettbäuchen. Dagegen kommt keine aircondition an: Es ist – mit einer der Glanznummern des Musicals gesprochen – einfach viel zu heiß! (Der Tagesspiegel)
And now for something completely different (visually speaking, at least):
A reminder: if you recognize the production, don’t blurt it out!
Wait, What? It was Kiss Me, Kate? Oh, how it makes me relish the movie with Kathryn Grayson and Ann Miller.
I love hearing American musicals sung in German ever since my second visit to an opera house in Nuremberg 1979, to see My Fair Lady. (My very first opera was Der fliegende Holländer in the same house.)
As for the first pic, I didn’t even know Dennis Quaid could sing.
Sanford: but this version has Waschbrettbäuchen!
I’m gonna say Pelleas et Melisande.
I’d like to poitn out, someone pettily, that I was the first to guess correctly on the last puzzler, and am a little miffed that La Cieca neglected to mention this as she has in the past.
As for this round, I’m going to cross fingers, hope for two in a row, and guess either Guilio Cesare or Tosca.
Wait a minute! Where are the Waschbrettbäuchen??? Is Izzy Anderson in this production?!
Pirate Jenny- Uncle Zeff is alive and well- don’t you know anything?? ;0)
…Cos posting under the wrong heading seems to suggest I don’t either….:)
Don Giovanni