Unter welchen Rahmenbedingungen Musical in Deutschland stattfindet, damit hat sich die New York Times auseinandergesetzt. Ein interessanter Artikel.

The New York Times: –> Broadway on the Elbe

Ms. Welsch, the young university graduate who came to see «Tarzan” in Hamburg recently, had seen the show twice before here. But it was the first musical for her father, Reiner. During an interview at intermission he said he hadn’t made up his mind about the art form. Lingering in the lounge of the Neue Flora theater, decorated with Restoration Hardware-like sofas, he noted he had no points of comparison. Germans did not grow up on this style of musicals, he said, and he had never heard of Stephen Sondheim or even Rodgers and Hammerstein.

« ‘The Sound of Music’?” he repeated when asked about the famous musical set in Austria just before World War II. «It sounds familiar. I had heard of ‘Tarzan.’ The music is O.K. Do many musicals have flying?”