“Dällebach Kari” – The Musical – Production Blog

On Saturday, a big part of the cast of “Dällebach Kari – das Musical” was guest in Switzerland’s biggest Saturday evening TV Show called “Benissimo” and performed 7 minutes of music from the musical fully dressed in their costumes. Everybody did a great job at this, showcasing a bit of how the musical will feel. A big thanks to everybody who was involved! You can have a look at the performance below. Just skip to 07:00. Benissimo vom...

A few days ago, Moritz joined the show Swissmade on Swiss Radio DRS1 to give an interview about our upcoming musical “Dällebach Kari”. During the 20 minute Interview, several of our songs were played as well as Moritz and Raquel Rodo, singer of the Radio Versions giving a bit of insight into the development of the Musical. You can listen to the interview below, but you should be able to understand Swiss German :) http://pod.drs.ch/mp3/swissmade/swissmade_201004301600_10134216.mp3

After quite some time another update regarding Dällebach Kari – The Musical. The show is on its way and it looks like it’s going to be a very successful year for the Thuner Seespiele as half of the more  than 70000 tickets for the show are currently sold already (3,5 months before the first show) which is a new record for the Thuner Seespiele (even better than their most successful show “West Side Story” two years ago). Of course we all are very pleased about this amazing result and are all very happy about the great reception of the Swiss people as well as the very nice media coverage the show receives in Switzerland. Main rehearsals will start shortly and I’m really looking forward to going back to Thun and seeing it all come...

I went to Prague today for a short orchestral recording session in the Smecky Studios.  We were recording 2 more songs from “Dällebach Kari – das Musical” with full orchestra and additional guitar, bass guitar, drumkit, accordion, and saxophone which turned out really great and the score for a tv commercial which was great fun to score in a very Elfmanish style. It was a very rare opportunity to record the music for a TV commercial with full orchestra but I think it was worth it. I will let you hear the results as soon as they are finished :) Meanwhile I’m also working on another great project of which I can’t talk about currently but it takes almost all of my attention at the moment (as you can see by the long no-updates time) and...

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...

I’m currently (once again) in Switzerland for our Musical “Dällebach Kari”, which will have its premiere in July. We’re currently doing a workshop with the main cast and some extras in a rehearsal stage right in the office building of the “Thuner Seespiele” close to the lovely lake where the outdoor stage will be located in summer. We’re rehearsing the songs and working on the script, “shaving off the edges”, bringing the songs into shape for inserted dialogues, walking time etc. pp, ready to present a “workshop” version of the musical on February 6th. The workshop is lots of fun, we’re working with a great team and a great cast and we all enjoy it very much and have lots of fun. Finally...

Finally I can present you with a video of our last trip to Prague where we recorded a few of the songs for our musical with big orchestra conducted by Michael Reed, our Musical Supervisor. After that we went to Salzburg to meet up with our director Andreas Gergen to do the first routines, which means, bringing the songs into a shape for the stage, adding breaks for scenes, deciding who’s gonna sing in the songs, finding places for reprises and shaping the songs so they’re fitting into the dramatic frame of such a show. On the second day in Salzburg, our main actor for Dällebach Kari, Hans-Peter Müller-Drossart joined us, so we all could get a feeling of his tone of his voice and his singing style. Watch the video...

The last few days I spent in London together with Moritz and Christian Struppeck (who does the Musical development of “Dällebach Kari”) to meet up with Michael Reed (who’s our Musical Supervisor) to discuss about the structure of the show and the songs and to incorporate scenes, dialogue passages into the songs as well as deciding over reprises etc. We had a very constructive meeting and all finally have more and more the feeling that the show is coming together very nicely and gets a coherent shape.

Recently, the Swiss TV station SF did a short report about the Kick-off-Party for our Musical Dällebach Kari. However it’s in Swiss German. If you want to watch it, have a look at it...