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Did you know that in 1996 Mattel produced a Limited Edition Barbie based on Empress Elisabeth of Austria?

The unopened ones sell anywhere from €100 to €200.

The doll was also featured in the 1999 Barbie Collector Magazine April Issue.

▼ Here her hair has been restyled by a seller on etsy.

I dislike how almost every iteration of Sissi's Sternkleid features an Ivory Gown with Golden Stars when in reality it was White with Silver Stars.

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Tumblr's Top 50 Musicals - Results

I've posted the Top 50 Musicals over the last couple of days, and now it's time to look at all shows that have been submitted - 312 in total! Thank you for participating and submitting your lists, this was great fun 🎭

The scores (given in round brackets) were calculated as follows: #1 received 10 points, #2 received 9 points,..., and #10 received 1 point, resulting in 55 points per entry/list. Incomplete and anonymous entries were discounted. If applicable, the rank achieved in 2022 is given in square brackets.

I ranked the musicals up to #112 (16 points), all shows that scored 15 points or fewer are merely listed in alphabetical order. The logos you can see here represent musicals that weren't mentioned even once.

SURVEY - STATS - 2022 RESULTS

1) Les Misérables (723) [1]

2) Hadestown (551) [3]

3) The Phantom of the Opera (ALW) (405) [2]

4) Elisabeth (379) [11]

5) Wicked (313) [5]

6) Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (248) [7]

7) Hamilton (238) [4]

8) Sweeney Todd (234) [16]

9) Come From Away (213) [10]

10) Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires (197) [27]

11) The Lord of the Rings (192) [38]

12) Rent (180) [23]

13) Roméo et Juliette / Romeo and Juliet (Presgurvic) (169) [61]

14) Cabaret (152+poll) [50]

15) Next to Normal (152) [20]

16) Jesus Christ Superstar (149) [14]

17) Rebecca (146) [25]

18) Mozart, l’opéra rock / Mozart, the Rock Opera (134) [88]

19) Falsettos (132) [8]

20) Assassins (124) [77]

21) Into the Woods (120) [13]

22) Legally Blonde (107+poll) [28]

23) Notre Dame de Paris (107) [70]

24) Chess (106) [41]

25) Легенда о Берене и Лютиень: Лэ о Лэйтиан / The Legend of Beren and Lúthien: The Lay of Leithian (105) [102]

26) Heathers (104) [12]

27) Cats (99) [21]

28) Spring Awakening (97) [19]

29) Последнее Испытание / The Last Trial (92) [10 points]

30) Fiddler on the Roof (91) [33]

31) Newsies (90) [6]

32) Little Shop of Horrors (89) [15]

33) The Lion King (85) [42]

34) Company (84) [35]

35) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (76) [22]

36) Operation Mincemeat (74) [-]

37) Chicago (72) [29]

38) Six (71+poll) [9]

39) In the Heights (71) [24]

40) West Side Story (66) [17]

41) Rocky Horror Show (63) [56]

42) Финрод / Finrod (60+poll) [8 points]

43) Ragtime (60) [10 points]

44) Sunday in the Park with George (59+poll) [69]

45) Ghost Quartet (59) [47]

46) Ride the Cyclone (57) [7 points]

47) Moulin Rouge (56) [31]

48) Fun Home (55+poll) [43]

49) Beetlejuice (55) [18]

50) My Fair Lady (53) [44]

No polls were conducted to determine the ranking of the following musicals. The show with more mentions ranks higher; if the number of mentions is the same, the musicals share that rank.

Legend: Rank) Musical / English translation (points; mentions) [2022 rank or points]

51) Mamma Mia (50; 12m) [51]

52) Titanic (50; 8m) [93]

53) The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (45; 9m) [65]

54) Merrily We Roll Along (45; 8m) [8 points]

55) Matilda (43) [47]

56) Jekyll & Hyde (42; 10m) [34]

57) Death Note (42; 8m) [5 points]

58) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (41) [51]

59) The Music Man (40) [80]

60) Passion (39) [10 points]

61) The Secret Garden (37) [61]

62) Anastasia (35; 8m) [26]

63) Gypsy (35; 5m) [15 points]

64) 1776 (33) [-]

65) Hair (32) [14 points]

66) Twisted & Beauty and the Beast (Disney) (31; 7m) [98; 39]

68) Mozart! (30; 9m) [80]

69) Follies (30; 4m) [4 points]

70) Evita (27) [99]

71) A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (26; 8m) [45]

72) Lizzie (26; 6m) [10 points]

73) Hedwig and the Angry Inch & A Little Night Music (26; 5m) [15 points; 14 points]

75) Pippin (25; 8m) [51]

76) Spies Are Forever (25; 5m) [-]

77) Something Rotten! (25; 4m) [37]

78) Húrinovy děti / The Children of Húrin (25; 3m) [-]

79) Maybe Happy Ending (24) [-]

80) Hairspray (23; 7m) [58]

81) The Sound of Music (23; 6m) [30]

82) Frozen & The Last Five Years & Starlight Express (23; 4m) [61; 59; 15 points]

85) Oklahoma (22; 5m) [12 points]

86) Rudolf: Affaire Mayerling (22; 3m) [15 points]

87) Starmania (21; 5m) [2 points]

88) Godspell (21; 3m) [70]

89) Dracula (Wildhorn) (20; 5m) [7 points]

90) Nerdy Prudes Must Die (20; 4m) [-]

91) Bandstand (20; 2m) [77]

92) The Count of Monte Cristo (19; 5m) [84] 

93) Groundhog Day & The Scarlet Pimpernel & Pád Doriathu / The Fall of Doriath (19; 4m) [7 points; 54; -]

96) The Producers & The Phantom of the Opera (Yeston/Kopit) & The Outsiders (19; 3m) [1 point; 15 points; -]

99) Sunset Boulevard (18; 5m) [7 points]

100) Frankenstein (Baron/Jackson) (18; 4m) [70]

101) Cinderella’s Castle & Alice By Heart (18; 3m) [-; 84]

103) Pilgrim & Икар / Icarus (18; 2m) [-; -]

105) The Book of Mormon (17; 5m) [54]

106) Waitress & She Loves Me (17; 4m) [32; 75]

108) Paris & A VHS Christmas Carol (17; 3m) [-; -]

110) Hello, Dolly! (17; 2m) [102]

111) The Lightning Thief (16; 5m) [36]

112) La légende du roi Arthur / The Legend of King Arthur & 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille / 1789: Lovers of the Bastille (16; 4m) [-; 1 point]

15 points:

& Juliet

Bat Out Of Hell

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Oliver

The Prince of Egypt

Spamalot

14 points:

American Idiot

Caroline, Or Change

A Chorus Line

Cinderella (Rodgers/Hammerstein)

Dear Evan Hansen

How to Dance in Ohio

If/Then

The Little Big Things

Once on This Island

13 points:

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Man of La Mancha

The Pirates of Penzance

Le Rouge et le Noir / The Red and the Black

Shrek

12 points:

Billy Elliot

Carousel

Ernest Shackleton Loves Me

Mean Girls

A New Brain

Pacific Overtures

Preludes

11 points:

Artus Excalibur

Der Besuch der alten Dame / The Visit

Kimberly Akimbo

Mary Poppins (Disney)

Starship

A Strange Loop

10 points:

Bare

Between the Lines

Harmony

HMS Pinafore

Little Women (Knee/Dickstein)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Rock of Ages

Rohirové / The Rohirrim

Så som i himmelen / As It Is in Heaven

Singin' in the Rain

Жанна д'Арк / Joan of Arc

9 points:

Anything Goes

Avenue Q

Blood Brothers

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

It Shoulda Been You

The Light in the Piazza

Molière

Pride and Prejudice (Gordon)

Le Roi Soleil / The Sun King

Suffs

The Threepenny Opera

Venice

Vivaldi

We Will Rock You

8 points:

21 Chump Street

Amour

Dracula (Lubowicz)

Fangirls

Fëanor a jeho synové / Fëanor and His Sons

Iolanthe

Jersey Boys

Life After

This Is Not a True Story

Turnabout: An Ace Attorney Musical

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

7 points:

The Band’s Visit

Black Friday

The Bridges of Madison County

Crazy For You

Dracula, l’amour plus fort que la mort / Dracula, Love Stronger than Death

Gambämark

István, a király / Stephen, the King

Lazarus

Lolita, My Love

Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war / The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

Real Women Have Curves

Sense and Sensibility (Gordon)

Sztárcsinálók / Star Makers

They’re Playing Our Song

Tick, Tick... Boom!

Titanique

War of the Worlds

The Wild Party (LaChiusa)

The Wiz

6 points:

Änglagård / House of Angels

Back to the Future

Children of Eden

The Color Purple

Én, József Attila / I, József Attila

Grand Hotel

Grease

Holy Musical B@tman

Lempicka

Мастер и Маргарита / The Master and Margarita

De mol en de paradijsvogel / The Mole and the Bird of Paradise

Parade

Side Show

A Tale of Two Cities

Tango on the Campania

Teeth

Three Houses

Tuck Everlasting

Whistle Down the Wind

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

5 points:

Betty Blue Eyes

Clue

Don Juan

Eärendilova plavba / The Voyage of Eärendil

Firebringer

The Grinning Man

Kiss Me, Kate

Monte Cristo

Nevermore

Octet

The Prom

The Trail to Oregon

A Very Potter Musical

We Are the Tigers

4 points:

3 Musketeers (Bolland)

Annie

The Baker’s Wife

Candide

Daddy Long Legs

Dear World

Dracula, entre l’amour et la mort / Dracula: Between Love and Death

Dreamgirls

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

First Date

Guys and Dolls

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Just For One Day

Lycoris that Blazes the Earth

Moonlight on the Miskatonic

Onze Jordaan / Our Jordan

Орфей / Orpheus

A Padlás / The Attic

Patience

Преступление и наказание / Crime and Punishment

Romeo und Julia – Liebe ist alles / Romeo and Juliet - Love Is Everything (Plate/Sommer)

Starry

Zrada! Smrt! Láska! / Betrayal! Death! Love!

3 points:

42nd Street

Autant en emporte le vent / Gone with the Wind

Beren a Lúthien / Beren and Lúthien

The Drowsy Chaperone

Gatsby: An American Myth

Норд-Ост / North-East

The Little Mermaid

Love Never Dies

A Man of No Importance

Me and My Girl

Once

Siddartha, l’opéra rock / Siddartha, the Rock Opera

Some Like It Hot (Shaiman)

Swept Away

The Wizard of Oz

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Книга Золотого Дракона / The Book of the Golden Dragon

2 points:

Aida

Anyone Can Whistle

By Jeeves

Démonológia / Demonology

The Great British Bake Off

Floyd Collins

High School Musical

Kinky Boots

The Lucky Ones

Mrs. Doubtfire

On the Twentieth Century

Le Petit Prince / The Little Prince (Cocciante/Anaïs)

Sister Act

Thoroughly Modern Millie

[title of show]

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Вий / Viy

Ein wenig Farbe / A Touch of Colour

1 point:

Amélie

Báthory Erzsébet / Elizabeth Bathory

Chłopi / The Peasants

Cry Baby

Dracula (Svoboda)

The Frogs

Hundred Days

Jane Eyre

The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse

Martin Guerre

Metro

Mythic

On Your Feet!

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

South Pacific

Standing at the Sky’s Edge

Sweet Charity

Urinetown

Thanks all x

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my beautiful girl is back !!!

Ashley Loren (Satine) and Christian Douglas (Christian) from July 22, 2025 ♡

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DEREK KLENA as FIYERO (2025)

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THEY SAID HOT PEOPLE ONLY !!

my edits ☆

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My Favorite Mayerling Kisses (with Dishonorable Mentions)

This is just my personal opinion. All clips are kept at original speed. Pls inform me of location/dates where they are missing or if they’re incorrect. Thanks <3

• Dishonorable Mentions:

Mark Seibert & Fredrik Andersson (Essen 2015)

Did Mark just headbutt Fredrik??? What the heck was that? It lasted less than 1 second. At least as it looks like a power move on Der Tod’s part? And Mark looks cool, too. But there’s not a lot of intimacy.

Máté Kamarás & Lukas Perman (Osaka 2007)

This is so funny, I love it! But I couldn’t put it into the “favorites” list for obvious reasons. Did they lose the gun? Why is there a knife? They were so discombobulated they forgot the KISS (which is what I’m ranking lol; so this technically shouldn’t be here). I adore the way Lukas arches his back after the stab, and the how Máté drops him like a rag doll. This video is a gem. As a Mayerling it gets 100%, but as a kiss it gets a 0%.

• Favorites (least to most):

8. Thomas Borchert & Lukas Perman (Trieste 2004)

It’s a concert, so they have minimal space, but the kiss is still very good. The head tilt and going straight for the lips? Holding Rudolf by the waist??? Love it! (And more so because of Nautilus das Abenteuermusical brainrot, but that’s not the point).

7. Mark Seibert & Martin Markert (Essen 2012)

I HAVE to give Mark some credit, he has some good kisses in there (despite what some people say lol). This kiss is direct and long with no hesitation. And grabbing Rudolf by the neck is a unique power move, low-key. Usually it’s waist or upper-back. Love how Der Tod aggressively yanks Rudolf’s neck back after the kiss lol.

6. Felix Martin & Thomas Harke (Vienna 1998)

That kiss is so passionate. Felix is GOING IN! And you can actually see Rudolf kissing back this time, which is nice. I have an inkling the kiss would’ve been much longer if the gun hadn’t gone off so soon. You can’t hear the audio (because it’s a gif) but I heard it while making the gif lol. Trust me, they kissed even after it went off.

5. Oliver Arno & Martin Markert (??? 2011)

I’m OBSESSED with the way Oliver gently inches his hand from the gun barrel down to Martin’s hand. It brings back some fluidity I miss from Uwe’s og Vienna kisses. The kiss is similar to Mark’s (from number 7): direct, lengthy, and on the lips. But this time Rudolf is held at the waist.

4. Lukas Mayer & Dennis Hupka (China 2024)

The return of the Mayerling Kiss after years of missing it. And in CHINA of all places. Iconic. The way Lukas grabs Dennis’ head so hard that his whole body starts swaying lol. And the kiss isn’t brief, it’s like Tod is devouring Rudolf’s face.

3. Máté Kamarás & Lukas Perman (Vienna 2003)

Lukas really went to the LIMIT on this one. I’ve been mostly talking about Der Tod, but Rudolf really stole the scene this time. Excitedly grabbing the gun, laughing, and pulling Tod into the kiss is brilliant. 10/10. And I like how Máté doesn’t immediately let go of Lukas, but slowly glides his palm across Lukas’ chest first lol.

2. Uwe Kröger & Jens Janke (Vienna 1994)

That kiss is UNBELIEVABLE. It’s like Der Tod was taking five large gulps of water after being in a desert for a month. And the HANDS- I can’t even describe it…wow. I love how Jens kinda slides forward and Uwe is like- WHOA- and backs up. I feel like the Mayerlings increasingly got more stiff as time went on. Love how fluid everything is here.

1. Uwe Kröger & Andreas Bieber (Vienna 1992)

Not the one from the pro-shot (I like it better zoomed-out). Uwe Kröger is the best kisser in Elisabeth, no question (in my opinion). The fluidity in his Mayerlings is unbeatable. The dress and the graceful aura are everything. I love how he slides his hands up Andy’s body and then to the gun. The way Andy arches his back during the kiss and recoils when the gun goes off is PERFECT. I think more Rudolfs need some spine action.

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costume design ✨peaked✨ here, everyone will agree 😎

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Tumblr's Top 50 Musicals - Survey

In 2022, I wanted to find out Tumblr's Top 50 Musicals after seeing similar surveys on Reddit and Twitter. Now, three years and lots of new musicals later, I'm excited to see if anything has changed. So here's the 2025 survey!

To participate, please reply to this post / send me a non-anonymous ask / a dm with your Top 10 favourite musicals - ranked from 1 to 10, with 1 being your absolute favourite, until 11th June 2025.

Rules:

Since every show will receive points according to its ranking, I'm asking you to rank exactly 10 musicals, not more, not fewer.

Movie musicals and concept musicals without stage adaptations do not count. The musical MUST have a stage version.

Revivals/rewrites of a show count as the same musical, e.g. Bat Out Of Hell West End vs. Las Vegas.

Please include the composer/lyricist or another distinguishing element if there are at least two different musicals of the same name, e.g. Cinderella (R&H vs. ALW).

It's meant to be a list of your favourite musicals, not those you consider to be the best! There's no need to justify your choice.

The more people participate, the wider the variety of shows & the more representative the survey: please reblog!

Random example (not my favourites):

Into the Woods > gets 10 points

Company > gets 9 points

The King and I > gets 8 points

Beauty and the Beast (Disney) > gets 7 points

Rebecca > gets 6 points

Next to Normal > gets 5 points

Chess > gets 4 points

My Fair Lady > gets 3 points

Cabaret > gets 2 points

Wicked > gets 1 point

Please do not include the points, this is just for you to see how this survey works.

Once I've counted your list, I'll reply with "counted". You cannot change your ranking after this.

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help, not the skull jacket in its full glory 😭

— The original Heinrich concept art (cr. Theatermuseum, Vienna)

i love you awful quality elisabeth 1992 backstage photos

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Marjan Shaki, my beloved as Helene von Wittelsbach

Marjan only played in Elisabeth's Japan tour in Osaka (March to May 2007)

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• 𝐋𝐄𝐄 𝐉𝐈 𝐇𝐘𝐄 (이지혜) 𝐚𝐬 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡

• 𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐃𝐀𝐒 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 — 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐚 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐)

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wake up babe, 3 generations of der tod just dropped a selfie 💖

levay b'day con

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rudolf really dreamt of being dominated by a man while sleeping with a woman

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PIA DOUWES as Elisabeth ELISABETH DAS MUSICAL Original Vienna Production, 1992

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Without context, what do you think is happening here 👀

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ELISABETH DAS MUSICAL Original Vienna Production, 1992

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