This is supposed to be the theater thread, but so far, most people seem to be talking about musicals.
If you do wanna speak of musicals, I love Jesus Christ Superstar. I've seen it live twice, once a loong time ago in Trier, and maybe five, six years ago in, I think Kaiserslautern. A good friend of my mom was singing in the choir, and Andy Kuntz (singer of German prog metal band Vanden Plas as well as boss of the defunct Abydos project) was supposed to sing Judas!!
Yeah, well, then someone else took the role, AND we left shortly after the end of the show because my mom's friend's kid was getting really tired...
![Straight face :|](./images/smilies/22.gif)
No chance to fanboy it with Kuntz...
Other than that, theater to me is more along the lines of plays, or even full sclae opera. Annnd. I'm not really a fan of either, I confess. One operetta I have seen at least twice and really love is Johann Strauss'
Die Fledermaus! It can be quite hilarious, with parts of the dialogue, especially that of jailer Frosh, not being fixed. since I saw it in Trier, they made a lot of jokes about the political landscape and the football team and stuff like that.
I haven't really seen a lot of plays... One really funny one that I loved was "The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Slightly Abridged".
Finally, in terms of real opera... I've seen quite a few, but most during my childhood. I recall - shuddering - a terribly modern staging of
Fidelio...
![Sick :ymsick:](./images/smilies/31.gif)
Earlier last decade, I saw
Das Rheingold and
Die Walküre, the first two parts of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs cycle, in Cologne, but did not have time to see
Siegfried and
Die Götterdämmerung...