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Wien 29.08.1992 dress rehearsal

Prolog | Wie Du | Schön, euch alle zu seh'n
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Hello, this is brought to you by my limping German, Elisabeth das Musical libretto, a small mountain of dictionaries and a long-suffering friend residing in Germany when all else failed.
Neither German nor English is my native language, so please let me know if I've unforgivably butchered something.

PS. Also note that one of the songs in this musical, Hass ("Hate") features a crowd of Austrian nationalists shouting anti-semitic slogans as well as various related imagery. If you'd really rather avoid seeing this kind of content, simply skip part 9.
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EXPOSITION/NOTES:
[1] Luigi Lucheni (1873-1910)
Italian anarchist famous for assassinating Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1898. Died in 1910 by hanging himself in his cell while serving a life sentence in Geneva.
Curiously enough his head had been preserved in formaldehyde and only buried in 2000, 90 years after his death.

[2] "Why not? She loved Heinrich Heine!"
Heinrich Heine (1797 – 1856)
Born to a Jewish family but later converted to Christianity, German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. Elisabeth was something of a fan, to put it mildly.

[3] "In this case, it's impossible."
Elisabeth absolutely can't come with her father because, according to the libretto, he is actually on his way to spend a night with an actress in Monachium.

[4] "...with a zither under one arm"
The flat, black box Elisabeth doesn't want to give back to her father is indeed a zither case.

[5] Grammar bonus: German is a language with what is known as grammatical gender, effectively making the noun 'death' come with built-in male pronouns unless stated otherwise.
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CAST:
Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Death), Ethan Freeman (Luigi Lucheni), Viktor Gernot (Franz-Joseph), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Andreas Bieber (Rudolf)