The Musical Elisabeth at Blue Square Musical Hall

In the beginning we hear the voice of an invisible judge still examining the assassin Lucheni a hundred years after the deed. The murderer justifies himself as having done Elisabeth a favor. He says she was in love with death. To prove this Lucheni calls for Elisabeths late contemporaries as witnesses. Finally Death himself enters. It is true, he confesses, he was in love with Elisabeth. Lucheni is encouraged to tell the whole story.
Flashback to the year 1853. Elisabeth is still a teenager who is enjoying a life of freedom as a princess in a Bavarian castle. Trying to be a trapeze artist she falls into the arms of Death. He lets her down softly. What happens at this moment is, as Lucheni puts it, love at first sight.
The Queen Mother, Sophy, wants her son, the Emperor Franz Joseph to marry his cousin Helene. However, at an encounter in Bad Ischl he overlooks her and falls in love with Helenes sister Elisabeth. Death rings the wedding bell. Jealously he watches the young couple and finally addresses Elisabeth saying: One things for sure: the last dance is mine! Death keeps his eyes on the young woman. He is the emperors invisible rival stoking Elisabeths despair to let her realize she has chosen the wrong one. Suppressed and patronized by her mother-in-law and deserted by Franz-Joseph she is actually tempted to give in to Death. But Elisabeth does not succumb to his persuasiveness.

She discovers that her beauty wins the public to her and slowly she wields the power away from her mother-in-law. But there is a price. Death stalks her, taking first her daughter, then her son, Rudolf

Rudolfs suicide hits Elisabeth right in her gut. She accuses herself of sacrificing Rudolf to her own fight for independence. The wish to die is overpowering her. But now it is Deaths turn to be aloof. It takes another decade of Elisabeths unsteady life until he grants her wish.

In a nightmare of the Hapsburgs downfall, Franz-Joseph encounters his invincible rival. In the subsequent confrontation, the awful tragedies of the emperors family are conjured up. Franz-Joseph sees the worlds end and only wants to save Elisabeth. But Death contends that he is the one who will rescue her. Saying so, he throws the murderous weapon into Luchenis hand.
Ages: 7 years and over