Also credited on1 work
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In the literature8 passages
- Translating a musical from one language into another is always a tricky business. Michael Kunze , who in addition to being a successful lyricist and book writer in his own right has also created German-language translations of Evita , Chicago and many others, maintains that it is more adaptation than translation. “I try to become the orig…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- In 1992, Vienna’s Theater an der Wien housed the most successful post-war German language musical, Elisabeth , with book and lyrics by Dr. Michael Kunze (1943- ) and music by Sylvester Levay (1945- ). The story concerns the life of Austro-Hungarian Empress Elisabeth, wife of Emperor Franz Josef. In this show, her “leading man” wasn’t the…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Michael Kunze was born in Prague in 1943 to Austrian parents and grew up in Munich. He studied law, history and philosophy, and in the late sixties turned to writing pop lyrics, becoming the first German ever to win a Grammy award. In the early seventies he met Sylvester Levay , a Hungarian composer who had worked in Hollywood, providing…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- [279] Nancy Rosati, “What’s New on the Rialto? Interview with Michael Kunze of Dance of the Vampires ”, Talkin’ Broadway , 27 October 2002.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- [280] Ellis Nassour , “Michael Kunze : The Sondheim and Lloyd Webber of Europe”, Broadway Stars , 5 December 2002.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- The Viennese musical Elisabeth , with book and lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay , has been performed several times by Takarazuka , and also in a more conventional version by the Toho Company . In fact, Maki Ichiro , the otokoyaku who played the androgynous male lead in the Takarazuka production, was later cast in the (…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
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- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
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