keep on rockin'

What a show!
No, not just a show!
It was an experience!

I never witnessed such a cool and awesome perfomance before!
The three times I had seen it before were already great but this finish was just unbelievable.
(1st, 2nd, 3rd)

This time I finally saw Serkan Kaya as Galileo. It's true, he is the best!
Scaramouche was played again by Silke Braas - she is a pretty cool Scaramouche too. Jessica Kessler couldn't play in the great final performance because of an laryngitis. Get well soon!
I guess the rest was the first cast. Martin Berger as Khashoggi (fabulous!) and Brigitte Oelke as Killer Queen (perfect!).

The show was unbelievable! The actors put in some extra jokes and improvisations. It was a huge party for everyone!
The audience was wonderful too. Right from the beginning, when the lights went out and we were told to turn off the cellphones etc., the crowd started screaming like the stars were already on stage. Wow! What a start!
And the atmosphere stayed so till the very end.
At the start of every single song the people screamed and clapped their hands like at a concert and sang along. Some even spoke the text partly along. Really cool!

After the pause free glow-sticks were given out. An awesome view to see everybody in the theater waving with the lights.
Before the second part began people stomped the 'Wee Will Rock You'-rhythm and shook the whole theater.

During the second part the audience went completely 'Bohemian' and at the end everybody sang along the 'Bohemian Rapsody'. It was overwhelming!

This time there was even another song as encore - 'The Show Must Go On'. Again the complete audience was singing, clapping and jumping.

Here some videos from youtube-user Miaka01.




Afterwards Serkan thanked everybody and the actors pulled the custome and make-up staff and the techies on stage. A real noble gesture.

You could see the joy in the actors eyes for having given us such a great performance but also a bit of sadness about having reached the end of an era.



Hope WWRY will be back in Vienna soon!

As I mentioned last time - I think it's a great way to keep Freddie Mercury's and Queen's music and legacy in people's minds!

Never forget - THE SHOW MUST GO ON!


Websites: We Will Rock You (at), Raimund Theater
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MC listened to: Queen - Hammer To Fall
via FoxyTunes

still rockin'!

Thanks to Julia's parents we had the pleasure of seeing 'We Will Rock You' again yesterday. (The third time for me!)

Fantastic as always!

Again we saw a different cast as the last time. Galileo was played by Sasha Alexander Lien (like on the first time I saw it) and Scaramouche was played by Silke Braas instead of Jessica Kessler. She has a great soft voice and was a wonderful Scaramouche too, but to be honest I liked Jessica more because she plays Scaramouche more saucily and thereby the complete character is a bit funnier.

This time there were a lot of kids and teens. It was really nice too see that musicals like this one habe the ability to bring young people to the theater. So the wonderful music of Queen and Freddie Mercury's legacy won't be forgotten too soon. (Keep up the great work!)
In the row in front of us there were three young girls who really had a great time. They always screamed and clapped their hands full of joy - even the actors recognized them during the encore and smiled at them. It was a great picture to see everybody smiling with sparkling eyes!

The audience was really disappointing this time. Through the complete musical they were always very enthusiastic and always screamed and applauded joyfully but in the end they just stood up for one song and then sat down again very quickly and just clapped hands sitting. I really didn't understand that. I would have expected a more party-like behavior.
And the actors would have really deserved that!
They were awesome as always!
At least there were loud standing ovations after the finish.

I am really looking forward to the final performance of WWRY on 13. July. I guess then we will see the complete first cast.
And I hope that it will be a loud rocking party!

Websites: We Will Rock You (at), Raimund Theater
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MC listened to: Queen - Headlong
via FoxyTunes

Alfred Dorfer - 'fremd'

Last Wednesday I saw with some of my friends the cabaret show 'fremd' (foreign) from the Austrian cabaret artist Alfred Dorfer at hour Town Theater in Wiener Neustadt.
I love his shows! He always has some pretty cool hits at several Austrian politicians and other things you may come across in your live.
One laugh followed the other. It's really great when you see something so funny, that your cheeks hurt after the two-hour-programm from all the grinning and laughing. :-)
Dorfer is always assisted by his band consisting of Guenther Paal (a.k.a. Gunkl), Peter Herrmann and Lothar Scherper and the sound technician Robert Peres.
Guenther Paal (Gunkl) is not only the bassist, he is also there for seemingly extremly intellectual comments, explanations and answers on different question.
He sometimes does his own shows. They are excellent too but right after the show you just can't tell what he said. Very heavy! ;-)

Websites: Alfred Dorfer, Gunkl
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MC listened to: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
via FoxyTunes

rocked again!

Seen on Sunday.

WOW!
As fantastic as the last time!
Just can't get enough of it!

The cast was a bit different this time. Galileo was played by Carl von Wegberg. He has a great voice too! But as so often the first set you see seems better than the following changes. But to be honest that's just subjective, and you only recognize things you liked in the other set better and don't really see the things that are maybe even better now.

I really hope that I get the chance to see it once more!

Websites: We Will Rock You (at), Raimund Theater
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MC listened to: Queen - I Want It All
via FoxyTunes

We Will Rock You

Don't know what to say!
The term 'WOW!' just doesn't explain it quite enough!

It's more then a musical, more than a show. It's a unique masterpiece!



Can you imagine a world without REAL music? Where everything is computer-generated and to be downloaded via the internet? A globalised world of GA-GA, ruled the a company called Globalsoft? Where music instruments are banned?
Me neither!
Galileo (Sascha Alexander Lien / first cast: Serkan Kaya) and Scaramouche (Jessica Kessler) are on the journey of their lifetime. They are on a crusade to find the last hidden instruments to revive the one and only real and true music - ROCK!



The story is great and the music is fantastic, wonderful, breathtaking!
The hits written by Queen really shake the walls of the good old Raimund Theater and make you really feel alive!

We would watch it over and over again. And we WILL! :-)

The producers:

Ben Elton,
Robert de Niro,
Brian May,
Roger Taylor



Websites: We Will Rock You (at), Raimund Theater
Pictures taken from musicalvienna.at
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MC listened to: Queen - A Kind Of Magic
via FoxyTunes