Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (VBW), or United Stages Vienna , is a musical production company based in Vienna, Austria which produced several own musicals that were very successful.
It also owns and/or operates four theaters: the Theater an der Wien, Raimund Theater, Ronacher, and the Kammeroper.
Shareholders are Wien Holding GmbH and Rudi Klausnitzer, who was also VBW's Artistic Director between 1992 and 2006.
This is a list of productions that were originally produced by Vereinigte Bühnen Wien. Some of the productions were later produced by other companies.
This list contains musical productions played in the VBW's theaters Theater an der Wien (TadW), Raimund Theater (RT) and Etablissement Ronacher (ER) in alphabetical order. Current and future productions are highlighted.
The Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre in Vienna located on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district. Completed in 1801, the theatre has hosted the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music. Since 2006, it has served primarily as an opera house, hosting its own company.
Dance of the Vampires is a musical adaptation of the 1967 Roman Polanski film. Polanski also directed the musical’s original German-language production. The music was composed by Jim Steinman, orchestrated by Steve Margoshes, and Michael Kunze wrote the original German book and lyrics.
Sylvester Levay is a Hungarian recording artist and composer, born in Yugoslavia.
Elisabeth is a Viennese musical commissioned by the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien and originally produced in German, with a book and lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay. It portrays the life and death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as "Sisi", the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I, from her engagement and marriage in 1854 to her murder in 1898 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni; it focuses on her growing obsession with death, as her marriage and the empire crumble around her just before the turn of the 20th century.
Michael Rolf Kunze is a foremost German musical theater lyricist and librettist.
The Raimund Theater is a theatre in the Mariahilf district of Vienna, Austria.
Rebecca is a musical adaptation of the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It was composed by Sylvester Levay with German book and lyrics by Michael Kunze. The plot, which adheres closely to the original novel, revolves around wealthy Maxim DeWinter, his naïve new wife, called "I", and Mrs. Danvers, the manipulative housekeeper of DeWinter's Cornish estate Manderley. Mrs. Danvers resents the new wife's intrusion and persuades her that she is an unworthy replacement for DeWinter's first wife, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, who perished in a drowning accident. The new Mrs. DeWinter struggles to find her identity and take control of her life among the shadows left by Rebecca.
Mozart! is an Austrian musical, originally written in German. The original book and lyrics were written by Michael Kunze and the music and arrangements were composed by Sylvester Levay. The show is a new imagining of the struggles of the famous composer.
Drew Sarich is an American stage actor and singer songwriter from St. Louis, who performs in the English and German languages.
Uwe Kröger is a German actor, singer, and he plays Guitar. He is a musical star in the German-speaking countries of the world. Besides starring on stage, Kröger has taken part in galas and concerts, as well as making television and film appearances. He has released cast recordings and solo CDs. He also played Captain Von Trapp singing in German and English on Edelweiss.
Caroline Vasicek is an Austrian actress and singer.
Brigitte Oelke is a Swiss singer, actress, and dancer.
Thomas Smolej is an Austrian actor and director.
Franz Patay is an Austrian arts administrator, the former Rector of the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and CEO of the theatrical company Vereinigte Bühnen Wien.
Andrea Amort is an Austrian dance critic, dance historian, playwright, festival and exhibition curator as well as a non-fiction writer.
Fritz Schmid is an Austrian musical singer who has been working in Germany and Austria since 1997.
Eleonore Schikaneder (1751–1821) was an Austrian stage actress and theatre manager. She was the daughter of the theater manager Franz Josef Moser (1717–1792). She was married to the actor Emanuel Schikaneder. She worked for the company of Andreas Joseph Schopf in 1776–85 and at the Theater auf der Wieden in 1788. She managed her own company in 1785–88 and managed the Freihaustheater in Vienna in 1788. She lived in the Holy Roman Empire and then the Austrian Empire.
Karl Haffner (pseudonym), real name Karl Schlechter, was a German dramaturge.
Caspar Richter was a German conductor. He worked from 1969 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin where he conducted world premieres of operas such as Wilhelm Dieter Siebert's Untergang der Titanic and Toshiro Mayuzumi's Kinkakuji. He moved to Vienna in 1982, conducting ballets at the Vienna State Opera, and operas and operettas at the Volksoper. He was co-founder and chief conductor of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien from 1987 for 23 years, focused on the production of new musicals such as Elisabeth and German premieres of popular musicals such as A Chorus Line.
The Ronacher theater, originally Etablissement Ronacher, is a theater in the Innere Stadt district of Vienna, Austria.
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