“Rebecca”: World Premiere of a Musical with Uwe Kröger
The famous story of love, fear, and jealousy is being performed as a musical for the first time. The ingredients make for an exciting story: a dark secret, a young woman, a great love…
The brand new mystical and mysterious musical will premiere on September 28, 2006, at the Raimund Theater. It is based on the famous novel by Daphne du Maurier which Alfred Hitchcock in 1940 turned into an Oscar-winning movie with Sir Laurence Olivier und Joan Fontaine. Sixty-six years later, in the role of Maxim de Winter: the popular musical star Uwe Kröger. Book and music were written by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay, who have already had a great worldwide success with their musical “Elisabeth.”
Monte Carlo in the 1920s: In the lobby of an elegant hotel, an unprepossessing young girl meets the fascinating English gentleman Maxim de Winter. They marry after just a few days and move together to de Winter’s country mansion Manderley. But the reception is frosty and hostile. Everyone still talks about the beautiful and dominating Rebecca, Maxim’s first wife who died a year before. Rebecca’s ghost is everywhere, but there is also a dark secret about her death …
Musical Rebecca (in German)
Raimund Theater
6., Wallgasse 18–20
“Rebecca”: World Premiere of a Musical with Uwe Kröger
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