#die schatten werden länger

[musicalresolution]

Round 2 A Match 2

Propaganda under the cut

Telephone Wire

This made me cry when I saw it in the theatre.

On a drive that will turn out to be their last night together, Alison (gay) struggles to connect with her father (also gay). She internally tells herself to say something that she isn’t able to actually say, he remembers a boy from his first year of college (and we’ve just seen Alison fall in love with a girl in college).

It’s a heartbreaking, moving moment that also perfectly captures what was going on in the very different graphic memoir the musical is adapted from

Die Schatten Werden Länger

It's a duet between Kronprinz Rudolf (the only son of Empress Sissi) and his suicidal thoughts personified in the form of the grim reaper, who has been following Rudolf sincw his childhood and urges him to join him.

The writing is beautiful, Uwe Kröger plays Death/the grim reaper like an otherworldly entity

The choreography and staging works really well to show Rudolf desperation and helplessness and symbolizes how he feels trapped and only sees one way out.

It's like a creepy subversion of the classic love duet in the way how, as the song progresses, Rudolf gets less and less resistant towards Death's advances.

The choreo also very erotic at times which makes sense because in the show Death is portrayed as a lover to those he wants to take and he kills his victims with a kiss

sopping wet pathetic gay prince got seduced by sexy eldritch entity representimg his suicidal tendecies and mental illnesses

#round 2 #musical theater #fun home musical #elisabeth das musical #fun home #elisabeth #telephone wire #die schatten werden länger

[fitzrove]

Shoutout to this youtube commenter and this youtube commenter ONLY

#mark seibert #thomas hohler #die schatten werden länger #elisabeth das musical #der tod #kronprinz rudolf #kslsofksldofk #musicals #theatre

[musicaltheatregirlsandsongs]

Musical Theatre Song Contest: Round One B

Submitter’s propaganda under the cut

Die Schatten werden länger

This song is haunting in how simple it is with minimal instrumentals, symbolising the sorrow and loneliness of Sisi. You can hear the shadows grawling after sunset as Death's voice gently seduces the listener. This song is like witnessing the last star slowly die as it's shimmer fades. And the lyrics in this piece are gorgeous! For example: "It was evening before your day began / the shadows grow longer / the world dies with you, don't hold on to it"

(With some spoilers): It’s a very enjoyable song melody wise, it captures the ominous feeling of Death (Der Tod) approaching very well. It appears in both acts 1 & 2, which draws a neat comparison on how Elisabeth (of Austria) has struggled mentally and how through her actions, has pushed her son Rudolf (Crown Prince) into a similar situation of her earlier years. It effectively illustrates the tragedy of the mother and son, and also the foreground and seductive Der Tod gets a little kissy with Rudolf which is always a bonus haha (Pollrunner note: this submitter added a link for both versions of the song; the part with Rudolf is in the act 2 version of the song)

El Tango de Roxanne

It's so freaking good and way better then the original Roxanne also aaron tveit

Aaron Tveit.

Bcuz aaron tveit's voice is magical

#musicaltheatresongs #song polls #round one #round 1 b #elisabeth das musical #die Schatten werden länger #el tango de roxanne #moulin rouge #Youtube

[cto10121]

Got a new mic so this is more of a test than anything else, so feel free to ignore for your safety if you’d like. But anyway here’s “Die Schatten werden länger” in English.

Your Shadow’s Growing Longer

Death Remember when we held each other At our dance, our night together? You loved me, yes, you loved me Love me more than day loves darkness Than that man you call your husband Though you try to save him from me You’ll lose him in your night

Your shadow’s growing longer It was midnight when your day began Your shadow’s growing longer First your death and then Your world will end In night…

#elisabeth das musical #elisabeth musical #die schatten werden länger #my lyrics #elisabeth english #i originally had 'the shadows will consume you' until i realized how dumb i was #anyhoo pleased with my mic so far #added a little echo effect for ˜drama #still figuring out the kinks in my lyrics so they’re a little different

[briny-deep]

Die Schatten werden länger (ungarisch/hungarian)

so i just watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C7XaZtmU0g and like

what the fukk

you should 100% go watch it yourself but i’m gonna narrate my favorite bits lol

starting off with a relatively normal serious face from the conductor. get fucking ready.

not really anything to see here (except the old man falling asleep in the back)

we got these two doing their gay shit (seriously look at rudolf’s pose)

and then:

rudolf gets fucking lifted

ope let me just

szilveszter’s expressions kill me in these

also not sure why they thought green lasers were the way to go here but sure

he also jumps off a bed?? like??? sir??????

conductor having his moment

(that man is definitely asleep)

reads like a meme format tbh

anyway yeah that’s it. i just. what.

#elisabeth #elisabeth das musical #der tod #der tod elisabeth #die schatten werden länger #szilveszter #szilveszter tod

[emilydickinsonsghost]

Literally 0% surprised, almost 400 times seems low to me tbh. 😅 But it’s funnier if you consider that the Japanese version is my 4th most listened to song and the Essen cast recording version is in my top songs as well. Also Wenn ich dein Spiegel wär is like number 8 or sth.

Yea my mental health in 2023 was definitely not a dumpster fire why would you think that?

#really not beating the mental illness allegations #crownprince Rudolf kinnie I guess #at least I’m less likely to greif nach der Macht tu es aus Notwehr’ since I stopped taking Seroquel to weeks ago lol #elisabeth das musical #die schatten werden länger

[hamelinsnightmare]

Die Schatten Werden Länger

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#die schatten werden länger #elisabeth (musical) #rudolph (elisabeth) #death (elisabeth) #elisabeth das musical #musical #music #stim #stimboard #moodboard #my stims #blue #dark blue #water #night #glow #candles #skull #fritz schmid #máté kamarás #paint #clothing #so uh yea i dont know much abt this musical but this slaps and i read the summary and uh yea cool shit /gen

[tcelujhita]

My translation of "Die Schatten werden länger" from the musical Elisabeth

Time we finally speak together Time we both confess our tether You know me. Yeah, you know me Remember when, you were just a child My promise made as I smiled I’d not miss a day with you

Oh, You I have always followed My one friend whom I may call on When by my fears I am hollowed I came, since you’re in need!

The shadows here grow longer Yet everyone lingers blind and still We sing the piper’s song or Our strings just jerk of their own free will The shadows here grow longer! It is five to twelve! Our time is almost nil

Time we see the world is rotten To stop this course so misbegotten But I'm forced to wait, forgotten With my hands still in shackles

Nothing's worse than to acknowledge how disaster makes its progress while you’re stuck but must bear witness It makes me sick to death!

The shadows here grow longer While the tunes we hear grow cold and shrill The chance of doom grows stronger And all want to die on their own hill The shadows here grow longer! It is five to twelve! Why wait for blood to spill?

What holds you back now? It’s time for self-defense Seize what is yours You have to strike back! Strike back?

The shadows here grow longer What must be done can't be done too late The chance of doom grows stronger Stop this disaster they’ll create The shadows here grow longer! Kaiser Rudolf will dare to meet his fate

#this is my attempt at making a singable english version #i tried to preserve the rhymes alliteration & stress/syllables of each line #elisabeth das musical #die schatten werden länger #song translation #my posts

[hilema]

#fave<3 #elisabeth das musical #die schatten werden länger #uwe kröger #andreas bieber

[none-ofthisnonsense]

I love Die Schatten Werden Länger (1. Akt) and I must say that the 2004 version isn’t that bad.

#elisabeth das musical #high praise coming from me #die schatten werden länger

[ist-das-kunst-oder-kann-das-weg]

The 2019 light installation “La Science des Ombres” by Yves Charnay and Ralf Warnecke on the outside of the library of Magdeburg University demonstrates that if you take a coloured and a white light source illumination an object, they  cast coloured shadows, a fact Otto von Guericke found out in an experiment in 1612. There are two similar installations in the same vein by Charnay in Magdeburg (one in Jakobsstraße and one in the parliament).

#die schatten werden länger #ja dieses mal ist es sowas von absicht ;) #noli turbare circulos meos #störe meine kreise nicht #fun facts #stuff you never wanted to know #photography #fotografie #ovgu #magdeburg #uni magdeburg #magdeburg university #yves charnay #ralf warnecke #light installation #light #dark #fun facts am rande

[musicalresolution]

Round 1 A Match 4

Propaganda under the cut

Judas

god is satan is jesus, and judas is just some guy who was thrown into the thick of it all.

the way god/satan/jesus insists that she "needs it" (the betrayal) makes me think. the strange tenderness of it all. the malloy typical forlorn-ness.

the fourth wall breaking when judas asks "who made this puppet" in reference to satan who is represented by a handpuppet on the actress who plays god/jesus.

IDK it's absurd it's existential it's almost sweet idk man i love this show

Die Schatten Werden Länger

It's a duet between Kronprinz Rudolf (the only son of Empress Sissi) and his suicidal thoughts personified in the form of the grim reaper, who has been following Rudolf sincw his childhood and urges him to join him.

The writing is beautiful, Uwe Kröger plays Death/the grim reaper like an otherworldly entity

The choreography and staging works really well to show Rudolf desperation and helplessness and symbolizes how he feels trapped and only sees one way out.

It's like a creepy subversion of the classic love duet in the way how, as the song progresses, Rudolf gets less and less resistant towards Death's advances.

The choreo also very erotic at times which makes sense because in the show Death is portrayed as a lover to those he wants to take and he kills his victims with a kiss

sopping wet pathetic gay prince got seduced by sexy eldritch entity representimg his suicidal tendecies and mental illnesses

#round 1 #musical theater #clown bible musical #elisabeth das musical #clown bible #elisabeth #judas #die schatten werden länger

[fitzrove]

Elisabeth fans!!

Under the cut you will find my singable English-lang fan translation of Die Schatten werden Länger (reprise) 😎

I'm somewhat unsatisfied with the simplicity of some of these lyrics in comparison to the complex intertextual prose of the original, but 1) it's nicely singable 2) it avoids weirdly placed syllable stress, which is something that always grinds my gears lmao. (Also, credit where credit is due: some of my choices were inspired by the official French translation used in Elisabeth Bruxellons 2022.)

Please credit as Fitzrove's translation if you use this for anything 😌❤️

The Nights Grow Ever Longer (reprise)

[DEATH:]

Time for us to talk some things through

Time to speak the way we used to

You know me

Yes, you know me

Now you're past being young and frightened

Yet our bond has only tightened

For I will never leave you

[RUDOLF:]

Oh, my friend, the night is darker

Than back then, and I am desperate

When my pain grows even sharper

[DEATH:]

I'm there whenever you call

[BOTH:]

The nights grow ever longer

And the songs we sing are shrill and cold

The madness taking over

While some cling to idols long grown old

The nights grow ever longer

It is five to twelve, the end will soon unfold

[RUDOLF:]

Time to watch as light is fading

Watch the people suffocating

It's so cruel and so frustrating

I'm helpless, they have bound me

[DEATH:]

Nothing's worse than staying silent

When you know the world is twisted

Evil grows and thrives on blindness

[RUDOLF:]

It hurts me to my core

[BOTH:]

The nights grow ever longer

And the foolish few still lead us on

Injustice shall grow stronger

They won't stop it till the chance is gone

The nights grow ever longer

It is five to twelve, we need to turn the tide

[DEATH:]

When will you fight back

This is the time to act

Do what you must

Reach for the power

[RUDOLF:]

Power?

[BOTH:]

The nights grow ever longer

What will be must come to pass right now

Dark shadows seek to conquer

A new world must reach its dawn somehow

The nights grow ever longer

Kaiser Rudolf will rise up and bring us light

#elisabeth das musical #elisabeth musical #die schatten werden länger #der tod #kronprinz rudolf #fan translation #musicals #theatre #my art #my writing #kinda XD #i wrote this in summer after i'd just heard the french version (radio show performance) >:]

[cto10121]

Learned Rudolf's part and now I can't remember the main melody. 🫠 Only me, I guess. Anyhoo, I'm shocked by how okay this turned out; I thought this would be a harder song to sing. It only took me long because I decided to learn Rudolf's harmony like an idiot.

The Shadow's Growing Longer (Die Schatten werden länger)

Death Now it’s time to break the silence  Time to offer you some guidance You’ve known me, yes, you’ve known me Cold, alone, still, you have known me  Even as a boy you’ve shown me What you could be if you’d at last decide

Rudolf Death, you’ve come when I most need you  Dearest friend, I knew you’d be true In this world of madness, greed, you—

Death Am here To be your guide

Both The shadow’s growing longer But mankind is blind to his own folly  The darkness growing stronger In his hate, his greed, his melancholy The shadow’s growing longer Either change the tide Or watch the whole world die

Rudolf Captain of a ship soon sinking Wracked by gales, so close to brinking  And I’m trapped, so helpless, thinking  I’m bounded Tied and grounded 

Death Still, you can prevent disaster If you’re brave enough to try it Though the tide moves ever faster

Rudolf It makes me long to die! 

All The shadow’s growing longer But mankind is blind to its own folly The darkness growing stronger In his hate, his greed, his melancholy The shadow’s growing longer Revolution’s nigh So why do you/I linger still? 

Death What are you waiting for? Do what you have to do Do what you must  To reach for power!

Rudolf Power?

All The shadow’s growing longer What must happen has to or it’s too late The darkness growing stronger  But the world is blind and deaf with hate The shadow’s growing longer Emperor Rudolf will soon make war with this fate

#elisabeth musical #elisabeth das musical #die schatten werden länger #cristina sings #my lyrics #unfortunately #elisabeth english #i had 'the shadows will consume you' for the longest #until it finally dawned on me that i don't need to make the shadows plural #just one shadow will do lol #yeah because anything else just didn't feel right

[lunatic-fandom-space]

yknow, for the longest time i thought the mayerling dress was the same as Elisabeths mourning gown in the scene after and it was like weird freudian foreshadowing or something, i think it took me watching the mayerling walzer like 5 times until i realized. mourning gowns dont usually show that much cleavage

#'thats what you made you realize it? not the fact that theyre obviously different dresses?' yeagh #listen when i watch elisabeth its pretty much always the 1992 proshot and that one is so stupidly dark sometimes i just cant see anything #on a similar note i once thought that der tod was wearing a dress during die schatten werden länger reprise #(it was just his cape draped over his legs i somehow missed him doing that) #and i thought they were doing a thing where its like #yeah him and rudolf are being a bit queer but its fine bc he sees him as a woman or somwthing #elisabeth das musical

[loststolenorstrayed]

normal about theatre bootlegs

#my post's #deathposting #this is about a clip of die schatten werden länger with Maté if you were wondering #fuck it I will maintag this so my mutuals see it #elisabeth das musical #my post’s