The recording of his birthday concert in December in the Vienna Stadthalle with special guest Pia Douwes offers a foray through his musical career - from his beginnings to his current successes. The big hits from musicals such as Elisabeth, Starlight Express, The Rocky Horror Show, The Phantom of the Opera, Fame, Chicago, Cats as well as new numbers that Uwe Kröger has never performed before. Accompanied by the Herwig Gratzer Band, 12 dancers and special guest Pia Douwes, who leads the show with Uwe Kröger and even performs a few solo pieces.
Based on the true life story of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Rudolf recounts the life of a young and sensitive visionary reformer, destroyed by political intrigue and his own fateful passion.
The show opens in the "world of the dead", where Luigi Lucheni is being interrogated by a Judge as to why he has murdered the Empress Elisabeth. Lucheni claims that he did no more than what Elisabeth herself wanted, since all her life Elisabeth has been in love with Death himself – and vice versa. As his witnesses, Lucheni brings back the dead aristocracy of the bygone era and takes us to the past, where he serves as a sarcastic narrator of the events that lead to the transformation of the sweet and innocent Sisi to the revered and infamous Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, and her decline through later years until her assassination.
Uwe Kröger (born 4 December, 1964) is a German musical theatre star. He made his theatre debut in Staright Express as Rusty, followed by various rolse in Les Misérables. Kröger rose to fame in the role of der Tod (Death) in the world premiere of Kunze and Levay's 1992 musical Elisabeth. His critically-acclaimed performance led him to play as Chris in the German premiere of Miss Saigon and Joe in Sunset Boulevard. He went on to play Colloredo in Mozart!, The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera, Maxim in Rebecca, and Van Helsing in Dracula.
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