Musical theater

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A musical theater is a building in which musicals are performed. In contrast to the repertoire system of the German-speaking city ​​theaters , the musical theaters have en-suite theater operations . Normally they are not “houses” with their own ensemble and committed artistic staff, but are simply managed buildings beyond the individual productions, such as the commercial theaters on New York's Broadway or in London's West End .

Some of the theaters that specialize in musicals are traditional theater buildings such as the Raimund Theater in Vienna , the Theater an der Wien , which until 2006 temporarily specialized in musicals , the Ronacher , the Berlin Theater des Westens or the Hamburg Operettenhaus . Since the musical wave of the 1980s, some new halls for theater productions have been built, such as the Starlighthalle (1988) in Bochum, the two theaters in the SI-Centrum Stuttgart (1994), the theater in the port of Hamburg (1994). Still other venues have been converted into musical theaters, such as the Colosseum Theater Essen (1996), a former factory hall of the Krupp company. In addition to pure musical theaters, there are also multi-purpose venues such as the Mehr! -Theater am Großmarkt in Hamburg, which mostly show musicals. In addition, some musical theaters have again been converted into such multi-purpose venues, for example the Musical Theater Bremen and the Colosseum Theater in Essen.

Some of these theaters were built or converted for a specific musical, such as the Starlighthalle for Starlight Express , the Rhein-Main-Theater in Niedernhausen for Sunset Boulevard or the Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein for Ludwig II - longing for paradise . While the first musicals in Germany ran for up to 15 years and longer in their theater, the frequency with which the pieces changed has increased since the musical wave subsided in the year 2000.

Germany

New theater buildings

New theater buildings integrated into the existing property

Use of existing theaters

Switzerland

  • Musical theater Basel

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Simon Eckstein: Commercial Musical Theaters in Germany . In: National Atlas Current , Volume 9, No. 9, September 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://tls.theaterwissenschaft.ch/wiki/Musical-Theater_Basel,_Basel_BS
  3. ↑ https://www.mch-group.com/de-CH/mch-group/history/history-blog/2016/06/musical-theater-basel-geschichte.aspx