Overview: In 2011, Frank Wildhorn & Friends bring everything that makes musicals great to the Ronacher in Vienna. Pia Douwes, Thomas Borchert and Broadways Linda Eder tell stories - namely those that Wildhorn has entrusted to them.
Overview: 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.
Overview: 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.
Overview: Recording of a Dutch performance of the musical Elisabeth. 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.
