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Origins: The Path towards the Drama Musical Origins: The Path towards the Drama Musical
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Impact of Kunze’s Work as a Translator of British and American Musicals Impact of Kunze’s Work as a Translator of British and American Musicals
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Drama Musical: Definition and Key Elements Drama Musical: Definition and Key Elements
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Additional Recurring Features of the Drama Musical Additional Recurring Features of the Drama Musical
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Inconsistencies in Concept and Execution Inconsistencies in Concept and Execution
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The Dramaturgy of Kunze’s Original Drama Musicals: Elisabeth and Mozart! The Dramaturgy of Kunze’s Original Drama Musicals: Elisabeth and Mozart!
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Adapting Source Material into Drama Musicals: The Dramaturgy of Dance of the Vampires, Rebecca, and Marie Antoinette Adapting Source Material into Drama Musicals: The Dramaturgy of Dance of the Vampires, Rebecca, and Marie Antoinette
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The Drama Musical as an ‘European Form’ The Drama Musical as an ‘European Form’
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Conclusion: The Drama Musical—a New Subgenre? Conclusion: The Drama Musical—a New Subgenre?
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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26 The German/Austrian ‘Drama Musical’, or ‘I Sing Alone’
Get accessOlaf Jubin is currently the primary researcher on a four-year project funded by FWF (Austria) at the University of Salzburg on how musicals represent European history. He also is an associate lecturer in the bachelor’s and master’s of arts programmes in musical theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London. For seventeen years he worked at Regent’s University London, where he was a professor of musical theatre and media studies. He earned his PhD from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and has written and co-edited several books on the mass media and musical theatre, including a study of the German dubbing and subtitling of Hollywood musicals and a comparative analysis of reviews of the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He is co-author of British Musical Theatre since 1950 (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical (Oxford University Press, 2016). In 2017 his monograph on Into the Woods appeared as part of the Routledge Fourth Wall series. He recently edited Paris and the Musical: The City of Light on Stage and Screen (Routledge, 2021) and is preparing a book on the dramaturgy and lyrics of Tim Rice. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0200-9813.
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Published:23 October 2023
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Abstract
Since the 1990s there have been several internationally successful German/Austrian shows which claim to have introduced a new subgenre of musical theatre. The ‘drama musical’ was developed by the lyricist and librettist Michael Kunze, who started as a translator, and includes such works as Elisabeth (1992), Tanz der Vampire (1997), Mozart! (1999), Rebecca (2006), and Marie Antoinette (2006). This chapter investigates the subgenre’s key elements and explores the manner in which the storytelling techniques employed in these five shows differ significantly from those of their British and American counterparts. It will also probe how their dramaturgy functions and the influences detectable from the famous musicals that Kunze has adapted into German and how he moves beyond the forms that they have innovated.
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