United stages Vienna

United Bühnen Wien (short: VBW ) is an Austrian GmbH based in Vienna . As a subsidiary of Wien Holding, VBW has the task of promoting the implementation of events through the management of the Theater an der Wien , Raimundtheater (brand name: Raimund Theater ) and Ronacher and within the framework of the Vienna Events Act . The Theater an der Wien opened in January 2006 as the City of Vienna's new Stagione Opera House .

Corporate structure

Owners: Wien Holding GmbH and Rudi Klausnitzer
Managing director: Franz Patay
Intendant Opera: Roland Geyer (Theater an der Wien)
Musical director: Christian Struppeck (Raimund Theater / Ronacher)

Productions

All VBW musicals in alphabetical order in the three VBW theaters , the Theater an der Wien (TAW), the Raimund Theater (RT) and the Ronacher (RON):

A Chorus Line (RT, 1987–1988)
Anatevka (TAW, 1997)
Barbarella (RT, 2004-2005)
Bodyguard (RON, September 27, 2018 - June 30, 2019)
Cats (TAW, September 24, 1983–1988; RON, 1988–1990; RON, September 20, 2019)
Chicago (TAW, 1998–1999; RON, 1999)
The Phantom of the Opera (TAW, 1988–1990; RT, 1990–1993)
The Phantom of the Opera - concert performance (RON, November 29, 2012; 10 dates)
The Old Lady's Visit (RON, February 19 - June 29, 2014)
Beauty and the Beast (RT, September 28, 1995 - June 30, 1997)
Don Camillo and Peppone (Musical) (RON, January 27th - June 25th 2017)
Elisabeth (TAW, September 3, 1992 - March 25, 1998; October 3, 2003 - December 4, 2005; RT, September 5, 2012 - February 1, 2014)
Falco - A Cyber Show (RON, 2000)
Freudiana (TAW, December 19, 1990 - April 18, 1992)
Spring Awakening (RON, March 21 - May 30, 2009)
Grease (RT, 1994-1995)
Hair (RT, 2001-2002)
I am from Austria (RT, September 16, 2017 - June 16, 2019)
Never Been to New York (RT, March 17, 2010 - June 15, 2012)
Jekyll & Hyde (TAW, 2001-2003)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (RT, 2000-2001)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (RT, November 28, 1993–1994)
Les Misérables (RT, September 15, 1988 - March 31, 1990)
Love Never Dies (RON, October 18-26, 2013)
Mamma Mia! (RT, March 19, 2014 - June 2015)
Mary Poppins (RON, October 1, 2014 - January 31, 2016)
Mozart! (TAW, October 2, 1999 - May 7, 2001; RT, September 24, 2015 - March 20, 2016)
Naturally blonde (RON, February 21, 2013 - December 20, 2013)
Romeo & Juliet (RT, February 24, 2005 to July 8, 2006)
Rebecca (RT, September 28, 2006 - December 30, 2007 and September 9 - December 30, 2008)
Rudolf - Affaire Mayerling (RT, February 26, 2009 - January 24, 2010)
Schikaneder , (RT September 30, 2016 - June 21, 2017)
Sister Act (RON, September 15, 2011 - December 31, 2012)
Rocky Horror Show (RT, 1993)
Dance of the Vampires (RT, October 4, 1997 - January 15, 2000; RON, September 16, 2009 - June 24, 2011; RON September 30, 2017 - June 27, 2018)
The Producers (RON, June 30, 2008 - February 22, 2009)
Wake up (RT, September 29, 2002 - January 1, 2004)
We Will Rock You (RT, January 24th - July 13th, 2008)

Under the title Ronacher Mobile , the VBW presented comedies like Die Weberischen or Die Habsburgischen (both in the Museum Quarter ) and concerts like Jesus Christ Superstar and the Leonard Bernstein Gala in the Raimund Theater during the functional renovation of the Ronacher .

Own productions

Productions that had their world premieres at the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien :

Freudiana (by Eric Woolfson , Lida Winiewicz and Brian Brolly)
Elisabeth (text: Michael Kunze , music: Sylvester Levay )
Dance of the Vampires (Text: Michael Kunze, Music: Jim Steinman , in collaboration with Roman Polański , Andrew Braunsberg and Rudi Klausnitzer )
Mozart! (Text: Michael Kunze, Music: Silvester Levay)
Wake up (text and music: Rainhard Fendrich , arrangement: Harold Faltermeyer )
Barbarella (text: Rudi Klausnitzer , music: Dave Stewart ; based on the work and the character of Jean-Claude Forest )
Rebecca (Text: Michael Kunze, Music: Sylvester Levay)
Die Weberischen (book: Felix Mitterer , music: Martyn Jaques, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
The Habsburgs (by Michaela Ronzoni and Christian Kolonovits )
Rudolf (by Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy; German-language premiere or co-production with Operettenhaus Budapest)
Woyzeck & The Tiger Lillies
The visit of the old lady (Michael Reed (music) / Wolfgang Hofer (lyrics) / Moritz Schneider (music) / Christian Struppeck (book))
Schikaneder (by Stephen Schwartz (music) and Christian Struppeck (book))
I am from Austria (by Rainhard Fendrich (music) and Titus Hoffmann and Christian Struppeck (book))

VBW productions abroad

With VBW International GmbH, the United Bühnen Wien is the only musical producer in the German-speaking region who successfully exports in-house productions all over the world.

Elisabeth , the first musical by Kunze & Levay , played in:

Japan : Tokyo , Osaka
Hungary : Budapest
Sweden : Karlstad
Netherlands : Scheveningen
Germany : Essen , Stuttgart , Berlin , Munich , Frankfurt
Italy : Trieste
Finland : Turku
Switzerland : Thun , Zurich , Basel
Belgium : Antwerp
Korea : Seoul
China : Shanghai

Tanz der Vampire a musical by Kunze & Steinman , played in:

Germany: Stuttgart, Hamburg , Berlin, Oberhausen , Stuttgart (2010), Berlin (2012), Munich, Cologne
USA : Broadway (heavily modified version)
Estonia : Tallinn
Poland : Warsaw
Japan: Tokyo
Hungary: Budapest
Belgium: Antwerp
Russia : St. Petersburg and Moscow
France: Paris

Mozart! , a musical by Kunze & Levay , played in:

Germany: Hamburg, Zwickau , Munich, Tecklenburg
Japan: Tokyo
Hungary: Budapest
Sweden: Karlstadt
Czech Republic : Brno
Korea : Seoul
China: Shanghai

Rebecca , a musical by Kunze & Levay , played in:

Japan: Tokyo
Finland: Helsinki
Russia : Moscow
Hungary: Budapest
Switzerland: St. Gallen
Germany: Stuttgart, Tecklenburg

Rudolf - Affaire Mayerling , a musical by Frank Wildhorn , played in:

Hungary
Japan

Visitors to VBW productions

Visitors to the Theater an der Wien, Raimund Theater, Ronacher and International:

2016: in Vienna: approx. 513,000 / Internat. 1,210,000 / total: 1,723,000
2015: in Vienna: approx. 568,000 / internat. 762,000 / total: 1,330,000
2014: in Vienna: approx. 572,000 / internat. 810,020 / total: 1,382,020

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Wien.gv.at: Law on the regulation of the event system (Vienna Event Law) . Retrieved March 26, 2010.
^ Ownership structure of VBW : Wien Holding's own information: Culture and event management ( Memento of May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). firmenabc.at : Vereinigte Bühnen Wien Ges.mbH . Retrieved July 9, 2013.
↑ Imprint | Theater an der Wien. In: Theater an der Wien. Retrieved May 23, 2016 .
↑ orf.at - United stages: Franz Patay is the new boss . Article dated October 3, 2016, accessed October 3, 2016.
↑ orf.at - "Worldwide interest" for Schikaneder musical . Article dated May 11, 2016, accessed May 12, 2016.

[1] Wien.gv.at: Law on the regulation of the event system (Vienna Event Law) . Retrieved March 26, 2010.

[2] Ownership structure of VBW : Wien Holding's own information: Culture and event management ( Memento of May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). firmenabc.at : Vereinigte Bühnen Wien Ges.mbH . Retrieved July 9, 2013.

[3] Imprint | Theater an der Wien. In: Theater an der Wien. Retrieved May 23, 2016 .

[4] orf.at - United stages: Franz Patay is the new boss . Article dated October 3, 2016, accessed October 3, 2016.

[5] orf.at - "Worldwide interest" for Schikaneder musical . Article dated May 11, 2016, accessed May 12, 2016.