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"Rock Me Amadeus" Musical
Went to the Falco Musical on Thursday in Vienna and i have to say, one of the best things i have ever seen in the musical world. The performances of the actors, especially Moritz and Katharina was incredible. At the end i bought myself a poster, which now has a nice place in my room. I definitely have to watch it again. A MUST WATCH
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(via Falco - Rock Me Amadeus (1985)
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phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix, 5/25/09
#phoenix band#wolfgang amadeus phoenix#the french snapped with this album fr#thomas mars#laurent brancowitz#deck d'arcy#christian mazzalai#phoenix#gif#music gif#indie music#indie rock#2009 music#2009#my dad used to bump this album all the time when picking up me and my brother from school omg 😭
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So having watched the vbw Falco musical recently. Rock Me Amadeus. I have Thoughts™
[ID: the mostly empty Ronacher theatre's auditorium seen from the 2nd floor on the right side. the stage is hidden behind a sort-of wall barrier curtain thing made of squares, some of which are reflective. the "Rock Me Amadeus" logo and an image of Moritz Mausser in character as Falco are projected onto it. Surrounding the stage there are a number of variously-shaped angular mirrors lined with glowing light. (additionally there's my partner's hand forming the peace sign on the right side of the image)]
side note I am irrationally annoyed that the squares of the logo don't line up with the squares of the curtain thing WHAT are they doing
Spoilers and further opinions under the cut
- The cast is stellar. Moritz Mausser is absolutely 100% brilliant, Katharina Gorgi's voice is beautiful, and Alex Melcher is there so that's in some ways already enough for me personally really. though he only really shows up in the 2nd act which is a bit sad. to me
but his presence is good bc. well. a lot of the things I generally value in a musical are kinda meh in this one tbh
- the music is fine! it's mainly Falco songs obviously, which I've been mostly neutral about so far but there definitely are some bangers, and, well, Moritz and Alex singing them sure is a point in favour. the additional songs written specifically for the musical are... I don't think they're bad, mostly, but they have a completely different vibe that doesn't really fit in with the rest. and. actually, some of them are bad. in my opinion. extremely cheesy. what's that doing there. one of them is hella catchy but the chorus lyrics sound like it's for kindergarden, two are just incredibly generic and boring and did I mention cheesy?
- Starting out with calling the day of Falco's death "the day the music died" sure is a claim. nothing to do with whoever is in charge at the vbw being weirdly patriotic (stares at the general Austria(ns) theme of quite a number of vbw musicals)
- Similarly his first sentence "In Wien musst erst sterben, bevor sie dich hochleben lassen" ("In Vienna you gotta die before they celebrate you") which sounds nice and dramatic and all but. come on. dude was #1 in international charts very much during his lifetime. they talk about this in the musical itself. he complains on stage about how the fame and stuff bothers him. where's the dying first part huh Hansi.
- Alex. listen I am stupidly into that guy's whole vibe. his everything. his voice is my favourite kind of male voice and his hair in combination with his entire profile and the lineof his stupid neck make me feel some kind of way. I wanna grab that hair and pull his head back like that one Sandman scene you know the one.
This one. also his tattoos and his absolutely deranged energy and willingness to just go off and do insane things rolling around on the floor. and then suddenly look like an innocent child in awe at seeing snow for the first time of his life. this tangent of Alex Melcher stanning has gone on long enough we'll return to our regularly scheduled musical discussion now
- They're simultaneously trying to make Falco a sympathetic figure while also showing him behaving like a dick. it seems to work bc the audience laughs and gets Emotional but. idk maybe it's me but the "I behave like an egoistic dick to everyone around me including my wife but it's ok bc I'm Misunderstood and actually very Deep and Emotional and I love my wife and need her to keep me sane and also I'm marionetted against my will by my Dark Impulses" shtick is sort of... you can't have him throw his wife to the ground and give zero fucks about her and then half an hour later at his funeral or wake or idk play a quote of him saying "I never hurt anyone other than myself" and have someone else call him empathic and sensitive and expect me to take that seriously and... look maybe I'd like it better if the jokes weren't so incredibly lame
- Female roles?? what's that. there's two (2) that get a name on the cast list (his wife and his mum). one (1) of them gets addressed by name on stage (Isabella, the Wife. his mum is Maria but only if you look at the cast list or the programme). Isabella's role is Sexy Lady turned Caring Wife and Mother who finally Leaves. the mum's role is Nagging Mum (in law) and Comic Relief. there's a second girlfriend (wife? secretary? idek) who apoears in one scene and gets called a name (Caroline) which I only caught bc I was looking at the surtitles. no one gets a personality not even the male characters really no one matters (I mean yes ok it's Falco's Story but ffs let Katharina DO something with her voice maybe)
- have I mentioned the awful dialogue and cheap jokes yet? "the best aspect of the American flag are the red-white-red stripes". terrible flirting with "ladies in uniform" who are trying to do their job when faced with an entitled asshole but of course it's portrayed as hilarious.
- ok so back to Alex Melcher but his role is the most fun part of the thing. he's Falco's "Alter Ego" aka his, idk, hedonistic impulses and desire for fame and admiration and whatnot personified? there's a huge head on stage with a brain and all in it to make sure the audience understands that he is Inside Falco's Head and in case that's not clear enough yet he also verbatim declares that "I'm inside your head" so yeah subtlety is not required in this play. he and Falco/Hans are being incredibly homoerotic the entire time and I am personally offended that they're not kissing, but I'll take Alter Ego pretending to lick Hans's throat and clinging to him like a limpet. I would love to write fanfiction about them actually but I haven't figured out how to do that well when both parties are the same person/one is a personified fragment of the other's mind and not physically present. pity.
- idk I'd just. I'd have done it differently? again it's just. so unsubtle. why does Alter Ego just hover menacingly above the stage in a glass box once or twice during the first act, why didn't they idk put him in as part of the white-clad ensemble and make him stick out more and more instead of the Hovering and then the 5 minutes "I am you and you are me" song at the start of the 2nd act. Have him talk to people while Hans takes a step back to show it's his Dark Side™ taking over idk. I'm sure there'd also be ways to make Hans more actually sympathetic and less of an arse (fewer dumb jokes might help, or giving other characters more of a personality maybe) but yeah idk
- idk there's just. not much of a story? it's a Falco tribute show with some life moments thrown in. there's a Falco song, there's a crisis bc he's out of ideas, now he's taking drugs, now he's happy, now there's a new album without any clue where he got the ideas (was it the drugs?) now there's sth about his wife now his friend is reprising the basic as fuck Live Your Dream song yet again. then it's over and he dies in a car crash and it's all presented like it's all some incredibly deep and moving story but it's just Not That Deep
- I do like the Writer's Block song they put in, don't we all know that feeling
- I'm not sure it's a good idea to use Jeannie of all songs as a recurring motif the way they're doing? "quit living on dreams, life is not what it seems" "lonely little girl boy in a cold cold world" blah blah all nice and well but Do We Remember What This Song Is About. I mean it's a good song I'm not contesting that I like it! (if someone wants to come at me for "endorsing" anything just bc I like the song... just don't) But yeah no matter how good it is I don't think it's very uhhh fitting. Though in retrospect maybe it's meant to portray him as like... Someone At The Mercy Of Sth Evil And/Or More Powerful Than He Is. Fucking over his own life powerless to stop it or sth idk idk
- Generally I think they rely way too much on the use of background projection screens idk it seems lazy. it's fine in some scenes it can work really well but it gets too much and kinda cheesy
End of the random unorganised RMA thoughts yay! It was fun to watch. I know I mostly complain a lot here but it's definitely fun! It's just that a large part of the fun for me was despairing about how bad I found it and waiting for more homoeroticism and also for Alex Melcher to... do the things he's doing
Edit: ALSO I'm not sure if uhhh low-to-mid-key insulting (iirc) two of the three not-Austrian countries he goes to is. Necessary?
#Phoenix babble#rock me amadeus#RMA musical#vbw musicals#German musicals#European musicals#god idk I don't do original posts mostly and no one is talking much about this musical on here as far as I can see so#idk what I'm doing here either
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two people that look the same to me
one is an austrian musical actor who is currently portraying the singer Falco and the other is Freddy Carter
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SCHÖNBRUNN NEW RUDOLF
Ngl, I was still hoping they would ask Lukas so I could make fun of his 20th anniversary Rudolf, but this casting seems promising!!!
He has some Gernot Romic swag going on lookswise imo (yes I am just basing this on "pretty and dark-haired" lol), and I'm happy we're getting someone who... is not actually older than Rudolf was when he died 😭😅 (He seems very young actually - based on his CV I think he's just a slight bit older than I am, if not the same age... Time to have a crisis I guess 🤣).
Based on Youtube he seems to be a baritenor with heavier vocals than Lukas for example, but that's not unheard of for Rudolves and could work!!! (Especially since we're probably not getting a skandaaaaaal opt up anyway)
I really hope someone films!!!! Excited to have someone fresh join lol and to see how he plays off the rest of the cast
#elisabeth schönbrunn 2023#he's going to be falco in rock me amadeus in the autumn so i think its great that he can be Seen in the summer already#it does get tiring to have the same leading men and leading ladies for years on end lol#actors#elisabeth das musical#kronprinz rudolf
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Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Me in Vienna:
#shitpost#lorelei's travels#when in vienna#mozart#falco#music geek#travelblr#summer vacation#rock me amadeus
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Rock Me Amadeus - Falco - 1985
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Screaming into the void here but does anyone have a tape or any at length recording of F@lco - A Cybershow? It should have been at the Ronacher in Vienna around the very early 2000s, arranged by Thomas Rabitsch. It also had Hansi Lang in it.
#hans hoelzel#falco#falco cybershow#hans hoelzl#hans hölzel#falko#falco götterer#hans falko#hansi lang#thomas rabitsch#musical#ronacher#wien#vienna#dance machine#rock me amadeus#der kommissar#german musical#austrian musical#drahdiwaberl
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>promises deep cuts
>plays rock me Amadeus by falco
#the music ghost living in my Spotify app sucks#inb4 someone tells me it’s my fault Spotify thinks I’ve never heard rock me Amadeus#billyposting
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#the amount of times ive played this the other day while mom was sleeping on the couch is frankly not okay#mine#misc#music#falco#rock me amadeus
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1756, Salzburg, January 27, Wolfgang Amadeus is born 1761, at the age of five Amadeus begins composing 1773, he writes his first piano concerto 1782, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constance Weber 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a Free Mason 1791, Mozart composes "The Magic Flute" On December 5th of that same year, Mozart dies 1985, Austrian rock singer Falco records Rock Me Amadeus!
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The Berlin radio station I’ve been listening to plays plenty of Falco but never his most famous hit. Avoiding playing the obvious is all well and good but there’s a reason this was his most popular song and a worldwide hit - it’s an absolute BANGER!
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I still listen to music from hundreds of years before I was born. Like, why would you want to deny yourself from literally centuries of music? Of human creation. Whyyyy.
'you still listen to music from 10 years ago 🤨?' bitch if prehistoric humans had audio recording technology id be sat up here listening to grog and unga bunga's greatest hits don't play with me
#don't deny yourself#be an awesome music geek everyone#like wtf#rock me Amadeus but literally#and also whoever wrote tourdion#renaissance music should be having a comeback#any day now
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