#I feel like espechially musicals can be something that can be so personal

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every time I hear someone say "oh you have to listen to Dear Evan Hansen it has such good mental health representation" I cry in Next to Normal

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2, 3, 4, 7, 14, 23, 24 Elisabeth

2. favorite six costume?

I had to think about this for a while and I don't feel this strongly bc I all the costumes are cool in their own way, but I do like Catherine Parrs costume a lot mostly bc of the trousers.

3. pro or anti cats the musical?

I have to confess I never saw Cats. I wanted to watch the professionally recorded one for a while now but I am pretty sure I won't like it. Cats is one of those musicals that I was aware of for a while and it was one of those that actually played quite successfully in Germany for a while which meant I first heard of it bc my aunt saw it in Hamburg. Anyway so what I did was read the synopsis on wikipedia and then I rented the German cast recording from my library and I just remember being confused as to what the plot was and why people liked it. It was probably the weirdest musical I had listened to at that point and I was not ready for it :D And nowadays I just had so much input from the rest of the world and my opinion on ALW has changed a lot...idk I definetly plan on seeing it before the movie. Right now I am definetly team making fun of Cats. I find so funny that nobody quite gets it and jet it is like in the top five of longest running musicals it's great. The last season of unbreakable kimmy schmidt had a great plotline to do with Cats. So to summarize, I am glad it exists if only for all the great jokes that came from it

4. obc spring awakening or dwsa?

Definetly Deaf West. Spring awakening is good but what they did with it is just incredible. It is copletely accessible to deaf people and the way they used ASL in the chpreography and how you as a hearing person who can't speak ASL don't get all the nuances but you get enough to enjoy it is just brilliant. I don't know of annother production that is like it and that's just brilliant. I wish it had stayed on Broadway longer it deserved so much more

7. give yourself a great comet “prologue” style introduction. “[your name] is [adjective], [descriptive statement].”

Eva is timid loves knowing but doesn't know what to do with her live.

(personally I am a Pierre gal. Just give me a ballad about the dread of existing)

14. be real. has a show ever gotten you to read an ungodly long book? (les miserables, war and peace, the chernow hamilton biography, etc.)

Well...now I feel called out :D most of the classics I read I read bc a musical is based on them but really long books... I think I just read Les Mis which I am quite proud of. I also read Hunchback after I knew that I liked Hugo enough but I have jet to read War and Peace. It is on my shelf but I only read like two parts, the chapters about the war I found quite tedious. I know for a fact that I will have to read Moby Dick when Dave Mlalloy comes out with his new show though.

23. Name an obscure musical you like that you secretly have a hipster complex about

Hm...so I have to admit that I have a hipster complex for every musical I listened to 'before it was cool' so like Hamilton and Hadestown and I guess Great Comet but they aren't obscure are they? So I'm thinking of German musicals bc they appear obscure to English speaking musical fans and now I'm thinking that I will probably be unbearable if Rebecca ever gains mainstream popularity in the UK or the US. Like it is no secret that they tried to put it onto Broadway but failed bc of money and now it is this mysterious musical that nobody knows what it's about or whatever and I'm sitting here in Germany and look into the camera like I'm in the office, smirking bc I know something they don't (which is that Rebecca is amazing and you should listen to at least the title song even if you don't speak German)

24. You're now the script doctor for [Elisabeth]. What do you change?

Oh boy this is hard. I do consider Elisabeth to be pretty good already but first of I would have to scratch all the changes after 2005 that was the first version I saw so I'm biased but I think what they changed from the 90s to 2005 works well but after that they leaned too far into the romance (Rondo I'm looking at you). Not a script change but I would try to make the scenery a bit lighter in the beginning of Act one so that the darkness is more effective when it appears. I think the most important script change that seriously needs to happen espechially considering our political climate is that there needs to be more build up to the Hass moment. I can see where it comes from. You have die schöne Apokalypse and Milch in Act one to show the mood on the street but when the Nazis show up in act two, everybody I've ever shown the show to was confused and disturbed by it but it is super isolated and it really doesn't get brought up again. I would love to know what the directors think of this scene and how they try to handle it but honestly it just comes out of nowhere everytime.

So what would I do to make this scene work better? Maybe for a start give it more context. What lead to this shift in society? How does the emperor fit into that? Maybe all of that is clearer for an Austrian but I am really confused by it. So you would have to rewrite die schöne Apokalypse, Milch and maybe Die Schatten werden länger to show a shift from ignorantly reading the gossip page about the royal family, and maybe we need a New system of government this seems ridiculus to Milch where it is literally freedom for the people (and maybe a Führer can give that freeedom?) to Schatten where maybe Rudolf could be more concrete about what he would change or maybe he sees more clearly the comming wave of fascism and then at the end show what the old world dying means. What will it gave way to?

I find it super hard to make Hass work without it taking over a whole B plot. But honestly that would be ten times more interesting than this uwu love story helene Fischer is Sisi direction I see Elisabeth going to at the moment.

Sorry this turned out so long! Thaks for asking I hope it was interesting