omg I LOVE THIS SO MUCH yessss Lehndorff gets to be the tenor hero! it really would make a brilliant musical! I envision it as one of those Frank Wildhorn spectacles, like the Scarlet Pimpernel :D
*tries to write lyrics and fails utterly* I guess this is a little harder than I thought, lol :D
I was thinking Frank Wildhorn as composer, too, I admit.:) I hear you re:lyrics, but with your expertise, you get to say which character sings in which register (other than Lehndorff as the tenor hero, which is obvious)!
Du Rosey: had better be a soprano, though a light-voiced one Heinrich: had better be a baritone, mostly because I NEED MORE tenor/baritone duets in my life (oh, okay, I suppose that Heinrich as the major love interest would be a tenor really in a Broadway play, but sorry, he's going to be a baritone if I get to choose) Fritz: baritone (btw, Fritz is turning over in his grave at this libretto — what do you mean he only has one solo verse in his song, and then Heinrich comes in?? Who wrote this thing anyway??) AW: bass (or low baritone), again mostly because I would like to see a song called "Ruin!" sung in a low register :D and because baritone-baritone-bass trio (or tenor-baritone-bass trio if we bow to convention for Heinrich) would be made of awesome Fräulein von Häseler: soprano, though a richer soprano than Du Rosey Kalkreuth: mm. Whatever voice part Heinrich isn't. (Baritone if he's a tenor; tenor if he's a baritone.)
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Re: Lehndorff - The Musical!
*tries to write lyrics and fails utterly* I guess this is a little harder than I thought, lol :D
Re: Lehndorff - The Musical!
Re: Lehndorff - The Musical!
Du Rosey: had better be a soprano, though a light-voiced one
Heinrich: had better be a baritone, mostly because I NEED MORE tenor/baritone duets in my life (oh, okay, I suppose that Heinrich as the major love interest would be a tenor really in a Broadway play, but sorry, he's going to be a baritone if I get to choose)
Fritz: baritone (btw, Fritz is turning over in his grave at this libretto — what do you mean he only has one solo verse in his song, and then Heinrich comes in?? Who wrote this thing anyway??)
AW: bass (or low baritone), again mostly because I would like to see a song called "Ruin!" sung in a low register :D and because baritone-baritone-bass trio (or tenor-baritone-bass trio if we bow to convention for Heinrich) would be made of awesome
Fräulein von Häseler: soprano, though a richer soprano than Du Rosey
Kalkreuth: mm. Whatever voice part Heinrich isn't. (Baritone if he's a tenor; tenor if he's a baritone.)
:D