Beauty and the Beast (Martin Doepke)

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Musical dates
Title: Beauty and the Beast
Original language: German
Music: Martin Doepke
Book: Christian Bienieck
Lyrics: Elke Schlimbach, Grant Stevens
Literary source: La Belle et la Bete
Premiere: September 22, 1994
Place of premiere: Cologne Sartory Theater
Roles / people
  • Beast: Hans wooden cup
  • Bella: Stefanie Krahnenfeld
  • Fee: Marijke Amado
  • Mathilde: Elke Schlimbach
  • Ilse: Gisela Löchte
  • Grete: Alexandra Gentzen
  • Father: Leon van Leeuwenberg
  • Gustav: Michael Müller
  • Max: Hans Fischer

Beauty and the Beast is a musical by the German composer Martin Doepke . It was based on an idea by Andrea Friedrichs and Hans Holzbecher and celebrated its world premiere on September 22, 1994 in the Sartory Theater in Cologne . The book is by Christian Bienieck, and the lyrics were written by Elke Schlimbach and Grant Stevens.

An essential difference from the Disney version of the fairy tale , the first time in 1995 in Europe found its way to the musical stage, consists firstly in music and the other is that the story is not in France but in the midst of a small village in Germany is located . Some of the protagonists also have typical German names and not French ones. Musically, Doepke's score offers a mixture of ballads , up-tempo pieces and fast ensemble numbers .

Songs on the CD

  • overture
  • The village on the outskirts of the city
  • Sometime
  • Roses in the desert
  • Dance of the Leprechauns
  • The curse
  • Mathilde's Tango
  • I am the best
  • The enchanted
  • We're rich again
  • The old castle
  • World of magic
  • Bella, come home
  • Me why me
  • Opening 2nd act
  • Sooner or later
  • Here is your home
  • listen to your heart
  • Believe in the future
  • nostalgia
  • pas de deux
  • Get the guns
  • The redemption
  • You / final

Productions

  • 1996–1998, tour - Director: David Belle / Biest: Marius Merstein Mac Leod
  • 1998/1999, tour - Director: Matthias Davids / Choreography: Melissa King / Biest: Yngve Gasoy Romdal and Felix Martin (BB Promotion)
  • 2000/2001, tour - Director: Matthias Davids / Choreography: Melissa King / Biest: Aris Sas (BB Promotion)
  • 2006 Deutsches Theater München / Tour - Director: Alexander Goebel / Choreography: Paul Kribbe, James de Groot / Biest: Patrick Stanke (La Belle Musical Produktions GmbH)
  • 2010/2011 Tour - Director: Stanislav Mosa / Choreography: Igor Barberic / Biest: Alexander Di Capri and Sasha Di Capri (Times Square Productions Ltd.)

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