Posts made in February, 2010

I just got home from Switzerland, where I was for 3 weeks, participating in the workshop of Dällebach Kari as well as some press events and while the test audience and media in Switzerland seem to really like the first bits of the musical they’ve seen, there is no time for relaxation for me at home. We just began working on a new feature film which looks very promising. The movie is called “Stationspiraten” and will have its cinematic release in fall 2010. Here’s a short summary of the plot: A few adolescent boys share a very peculiar neighbourhood: the cancer ward of a hospital. Suffering from various forms of cancer, all of them face an uncertain future. They cope with their life-threatening situation through their joy of living....

I’m STILL in Switzerland, even though the workshop for Dällebach Kari finished already 5 days ago. Today was a big press kick-off event in Thun with 300 guests from media, sponsors etc. which we attended.  During the event, a few songs from the show were played, the main actors played some scenes and short videos from the workshop as well as presentations of the stage design and costumes were showed to the press. There was also LOTS of press material and flyers produced… The stage without guests and Moritz on the piano rehearsing A bronze statue of Dällebach Kari, 2,20m high and weighs 400kg… made especially for the show. Lots of flyers… … and press kits! Also there was a report about our workshop on Swiss national TV...

Hey everybody, on Saturday, we had the big presentation of our Workshop Version of “Dällebach Kari – The Musical”. Approximately 80 people were invited. It went very well, we got standing ovations and lots of people were crying. The show will be very emotional and I’m really looking forward to the rehearsals in May and the Premiere in July. If you haven’t bought a ticket yet, you should definitely head over to www.thunerseespiele.ch and get your ticket now :) Thanks again to the whole team and everybody who was involved to make the past days such a big success. We had so much fun and it felt like a big family with everybody giving his own very best to make this show as good as possible. Below some pictures of the...