Musical hit My Fair Lady with new accents - emancipation in focus!

Musical hit My Fair Lady with new accents - emancipation in focus!

Wien, Österreich - On December 27, 2024, the most popular musical of the Vienna Volksoper, "My Fair Lady", celebrated its premiere directed by Ruth Brauer-Kvam. The viewer remembers the moving story of Eliza Doolittle, played by the Nestroy winner Paula Nocker, who strives for after social advancement. Burg actor Markus Meyer takes on the role of the phonetics professor Henry Higgins, while Oscar star Karl Markovics as Alfred P. Doolittle and Manuel Rubey appear as colonel pickering. Particularly noteworthy is Rubey's debut on the musical stage, which is a great challenge for him, since he has so far mainly moved in other genres, as he has in an interview with Today.at betrayed.

a new musical chapter

Rubey describes his role as a “new experience” that pulls him out of his comfort zone and gives him the opportunity to expand his creative horizon. His character, Colonel Pickering, enables him to present another side of his artistic skills to the audience. Despite his concerns about the musical genre, he got involved and discovered the kindness of his character in the play.

A central theme of the musical, which is particularly emphasized in this new staging, is the gender power struggle. In her staging, Ruth Brauer-Kvam brings a feminist perspective, which Eliza Doolittle in the end does not only represent a man. The piece remains true to the original story, but with a new conclusion that underlines the development of female emancipation. With regard to the power of the language, which is also discussed, Rubey comments on how important this is both professionally and privately for him. The linguistic education, which goes through Eliza - a connection between dialects and social classes - forms the core of history and is also a reflection on identity and change in society.

In this new production, Eliza's journey towards a better life becomes alive, while the piece of top title illuminates thematic conflicts and personal upheavals. In the second part of the musical, where Eliza is prepared for a ball, the success of the language courses shows, and the interpersonal tensions between Eliza and Higgins culminate in an emotional conflict. The challenges that Eliza meet reflects the social class differences that were already established in the first part, and lead to their final desire to determine their own life As reported in Volksoper.at .