Shakespeare in Love 

Rafael Rodriguez (Piano) und Melanie Burrichter (Piano und Bass) haben die Musik für die Aufführung komponiert und die Sänger begleitet. 

Den Opener (Will's Theme), den Song für das Sonett 18 und den Song In Praise of the Stage (Text: Peter Baasner) hat Rafael gestaltet.
Melanie hat eine Allemande für die Ballszene kreiert (Geige: Stefan Racec), sowie zwei Songs für Violas Traum von der Bühne und Henslowes Tavern Song komponiert und getextet; beide gesungen von Stefan.
Das Ensemble hat diesmal bei mehreren Liedern kräftig mitgesungen und einen Geisterchor erschaffen. Melanie und Rafael haben für die szenische Untermalung einer Kampf- und Verfolgungsszene und die der Sterbeszene von Romeo und Julia gesorgt.

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

In Praise of the Stage

 

The theatre is great for you
And everyone on stage indeed.
It tells you how to love and woo
And how to get the things you need.

The theatre will make you feel,
And also stimulate your brain.
You'll even find some sex-appeal
And only very little strain.

 

Refrain
The theatre inspires you,
It makes you feel and lets you dream
And it can do much more for you;
In our hearts it reigns supreme.

 

The stage makes life appear quite fresh,
Intensifies the way you act,
There's none of empty-headed trash,
Believe you me, this is a fact.

In love's amazing rodeo
You can be handsome Romeo
Who courts his sweet love Juliet,
If that's not true, I'll eat my hat.

 

Refrain

 

So, if you have a secret dream
Of ruling like a famous queen,
The theatre will see to that
I'll bet on it my pussy-cat.

You'll be a tyrant if you must,
A soldier or a simple maid,
A crawling creature eating dust –
Just get on stage! Don't be afraid!

 

Refrain