From Vienna to the World
The Musicals of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien
$45.04
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2027
Summary
What do the musicals Elisabeth, Dance of the Vampires, Mozart!, Rebecca and Schikaneder have in common? Collectively, they have been seen by over 30 million people around the world, but have never been seen on Broadway or the West End.
For more than three decades Viennese theatre company the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (VBW) has commissioned and produced musicals that have received worldwide acclaim. Performed in 24 countries to over a million a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350568891 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350568899 |
| Author: | Nils Grosch, Olaf Jubin, Miriam Lisa Ljubijankic |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 503g |
| Dimensions: | 138mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
A landmark contribution to musical theatre studies, this volume illuminates the artistic strategies and the global reach of the “Viennese Musical.” By situating the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien within international performance culture, the book redefines how we understand the transnational flows of contemporary popular theatre. Written with scholarly depth and cultural insight the authors discuss a repertoire too long overlooked particularly in anglophone academia. – Professor David Roesner, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich
This new collection makes a valuable and timely addition to the growing research that acknowledges the vital role of European heritage in forming and sustaining the musical’s status as a global art form. – Dr John Snelson, author of Reviewing the Situation: The British Musical from Noël Coward to Lionel Bart
For me, the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien is a place of artistic precision and genuine passion for musical theater. The work here is on a par with Broadway and the West End—but with its own distinctive Viennese approach. I am particularly impressed by the courage to develop new Austrian material and to constantly breathe new life into the genre. * Andreas Gergen *
Nils Grosch
Nils Grosch is Head of Department of Art History, Musicology and Dance Studies at Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg (PLUS), Austria. He has published widely on musical theatre, music and migration as well as on popular music, including The Routledge Handbook on Music and Migration (2023) and Stimme – Körper – Medien: Gesang im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert (2021).
Olaf Jubin was Professor of Musical Theatre and Media Studies at Regent’s University London and it currently teaching at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has authored and edited various publications, among them The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical (2023) and Paris and the Musical: The City of Light on Stage and Screen (2021).
Miriam Lisa Ljubijankic is a research associate at PLUS where she is currently writing her PhD thesis on how the drama musicals Elisabeth and Rebecca represent gender within the context of historicity and socio-historiography.
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