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ASMR | Elisabeth das Musical - Der Tod x Listener SFW Death Becomes Entranced And Seduces A Lonely Prince

[M4M/GF4M] [Prince! Listener] [Seduction] [Manipulation] [Kissing - no character death, lore here is Death's kisses can kill if it's 'your time' but if it's not they don't but they're still cold and cause temporary frostbite-like symptoms] [TW implies the listener is depressed and has been experiencing suicidal ideation, Death at points advises the listener to kiss him which would kill them, please skip this audio if you think these issues could affect or trigger you and if you are affected by these issues please seek help and contact hotlines in your country. This audio is fictional, Death's attempts to be a voice of suicidal ideation should not be taken seriously nor applied to real life.] 

I've been wanting to make this audio for so long. While I've left it ambiguous enough to be enjoyed as an original audio, this character is actually from my favourite musical 'Elisabeth das Musical'. It's a German-language dark queer historical romance where Death (Der Tod) is drawn to those who think about him, in particular it follows the life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, and her son Rudolf. The musical does deal with serious mental health topics and some historical events from that time including the rise of fascism so please know that going in, but if you think you can handle such topics then I couldn't recommend the musical enough. 

The original 1992 Vienna production is on Youtube with English subtitles, that is my favourite production and means a lot to me as Uwe Kroger as Death is just... perfection to me, very much gender envy and has been a big influence on me and helped me with accepting myself and my gender expression, and his characterisation of Death as this genderfluid, pansexual otherworldly being is just beautiful. And if you enjoy then I'd also recommend the 2005 Vienna production which is also on Youtube with English subtitles mostly for the few extra added song and Serkan Kaya's performance as Lucheni.

For those of you in my Patreon Discord server, I streamed this musical last Sunday in there for you guys and it finally felt like the perfect time to bring this audio to life. And if Kronprinz is still around, I know you were requesting a Der Tod audio for a long time and I hope you're happy with this one. The listener in this audio series takes the place of Rudolf, but you don't need to know anything about the musical to understand these audios. I chose to present them more like my original royalty series audios as Elisabeth das Musical is not very well known outside of mainland Europe and Japan, so I hoped by framing it this way with a photograph of myself cosplaying Death from a couple years ago would entice more people who aren't familiar with the musical. 

I love this musical so much, European musicals in general are my biggest interest and if you go searching for them it wont be long until you find my sfw account @emptymasks posting too much about them. If you're interested in learning more I have some masterlists and info posts pinned on my emptymasks Tumblr, but also as part of my subathon rewards I am doing a stream on my Twitch explaining about infodumping about European musicals and I've been working on some video essays for years that I hope to get finished this year that will be up on my emptymasks Youtube channel. I also run @europeanmusicals . If any mutuals or followers from my main or side blogs finds this... well hello there, I find myself nervous to drop this in the euro musical tags, as if people are going to find this format of fanwork weird but well... I had fun, I hope you guys are nice about this (nice doesn't mean you have to like it, but please don't be mean about it if you just don't enjoy asmr or audio content).

Something something if I had a nickel for every time Prince voiced a personification of Death from different fandoms I'd have three nickels.

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It’s finally happening! After saying I wanted to do this for months, I’m finally going to be hosting streams for non-English language musicals. Every one of these musicals has English subtitles on (apart from a couple that are in English). I have a little FAQ here about the streams, but essentially anyone is welcome to join, you don’t have to know anything about musicals or have interacted with me before, and there is a text chat you can take part in if you want but there’s no pressure to.

This is the link to the room: https://kosmi.app/nrs5nx. It is open now and will continue to be open, so please don’t misbehave in there between streams. You don’t need to make an account to join, but it would be best to do so if you want to join in the chat as without an account you’ll just appear as ‘anonymous’ and several anons will make the chat confusing. There may be music playing when you join because I’ve set up a little playlist to play if anyone shows up to the stream early you can just chill for a bit with me and some music.

I’ll likely start the video up to 10 minutes after the scheduled time for anyone who is just setting things up or slightly late, but I won’t be hanging around for people for ages. Once the stream starts I will stop it in the intermission for 10 or so minutes for people to get snacks or drinks or toilet breaks. I’ll get everyone to check in when they come back and once everyone seems to be back I’ll start act 2, sorry in advance if I start act 2 and you’re not back yet, it’s hard to keep track of everyone if there’s a fair amount of people.  You can still join in at any time during the stream, the room will not be closing once the video starts, I just won’t be rewinding the video for you.

I have seen a number of these musicals before and some are my favourite musicals, but I haven’t seen a lot of them before, so I can’t speak as to the quality of some of them, but at least a good amount of them I would recommend. Almost all of these are original non-English language musicals, I did put a couple of productions of Jesus Christ Superstar in here that I love and haven’t had the chance to watch all the way through yet (Amstetten Austria 2005 which is still performed in English, and 2014 Sweden). (And I definitely didn’t just add them because I love Drew Sarich and him as Judas in Amstetten 2005 and I think he’s amazing and my favourite Judas and I just want other people to fall in love with him as well). I’ve also tried to put some trigger warnings down but I haven’t watched a lot of these, but the ones that I know contain anything to do with suicidal themes I have noted.

If you want more info on European musicals while I do post about them here I also run @europeanmusicals​ and you can check that blog out and the posts tagged with #masterlists if you want the information posts. I have this general introduction post that I am still working on remaking into a video essay for Youtube.

The streams will happen every Saturday at 11pm UK time, which changes from BST to GMT at the end of October.

Week 1: Tanz der Vampire 2011 Berlin Production

28th of August 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German Cast: Drew Sarich (Graf von Krolock), Amelie Dobler (Sarah Chagal), Anton Zetterholm (Alfred), Veit Schafermeier (Professor Ambronsius), Kai Hüsgen (Yonie Chagal), Goele de Raedt (Magda), Marc Liebisch (Herbert von Krolock) Summary: Professor Ambronsius and his young assistant Alfred are on the hunt for vampires and stumble upon a small village. They suspect that the villagers know more about vampires than they let on, and soon discover there is a castle in the woods where the vampire Graf von Krolock and his son Herbert live. While staying at the inn, Alfred meets Sarah, the innkeeper’s daughter, her father being so overprotective that he keeps her locked in her room every day and every night. Sarah longs to escape her life and has been secretly conversing with Krolock for some time. She’s no damsel in distress, she’s attracted to him and what he offers and so she sneaks out of her home and goes to his castle. Alfred is convinced she has been kidnapped and he and the Professor go to the castle to rescue her.  Things I love: Music by Jim Steinman!! Who you may better know as the song-writer of ‘Holding out for a Hero’ and ‘Totale Eclipse of the Heart). Canon lgbt characters: Graf von Krolock is very hinted at being bisexual, tries to seduce both a female and male character and mentions a past male lover, and his son Herbert is gay. And dance sequences! Amazing dance sequences!

Week 2: Elisabeth das Musical 1992 Original Vienna Production (Proshot)

4th of September 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Ethan Freeman (Luigi Lucheni), Viktor Gernot (Franz Joseph), Andreas Bieber (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Christa Wettstein (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Wolfgang Pampel (Max) Summary: The musical follows the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth ‘Sissi’, but with a supernatural twist. Her obsession with death grows as her mental health declines, as Death falls in love with her and tries to convince her to kill herself so they can be together. He watches her from her marriage to Kaiser Franz-Joseph in 1854 to her murder in 1989 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni. (None of that was a spoiler, you find out she dies at the end in the first minute of the musical). Things I love: Mental health: In particular both Elisabeth and Rudolf suffer from anxiety and depression. LGBT+ characters: death can be seen as genderfluid or non-binary, in the original production and vienna revival has scenes where he presents as male and later female, and the original actor has described him almost genderfluid in interviews. death aims to seduce both a female and a male character, and rudolf is shown as being bisexual.

(I’ve put both this version and the revival for the first two weeks. I love the original, I think Pia and Uwe are perfect in the roles. Every Der Tod/Death is different and Uwe plays him beautifully inhuman and mysterious and I find that lacking in some performances. However, the 2005 cast is still good and Serkan Kaya as Lucheni is the best and it has some extra songs. If you only want to watch one of these I recommend the following stream of the 2005 revival, but I’d really recommend watching both of them).

Week 3: Elisabeth das Musical 2005 Vienna Revival (Proshot)

11th of September 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Serkan Kaya (Luigi Lucheni), Andre Bauer (Franz Joseph), Fritz Schmid (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Johann Ebert (Young Rudolf), Luzia Nistler (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Kerstin Ibald (Gräfin Esterhazy), Sigrid Brandstetter (Helene) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 4: Rudolf: Affaire Mayerling 2009 Vienna Production (Proshot)

18th of September 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Drew Sarich (Rudolf), Lisa Antoni (Mary Vestera), Uwe Kröger (Taaffe), Carin Filipčić (Marie Gräfin Larisch), Claus Dam (Franz Joseph), Wietske van Tongeren (Stephanie), Kai Peterson (Moriz Szeps), Dennis Kozeluh (Edward, Prince of Wales), Robert D. Marx (Graf Gyula Andrássy), Sasha Di Capri (Georges Clemenceau), Martin Pasching (Wilhelm II), Kathleen Bauer (Mizzi) Summary: Based loosely on the book A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 by Frederic Morton. Based on the life of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his extramarital relationship with Baroness Mary Vetsera, as well as touching on his strained relationship with his father. Their deaths in 1889 at the Mayerling hunting lodge have long been believe to be the result of a murder-suicide pact, though some historians still debate this. It doesn’t include his equally strained relationship with his mother, in fact Elisabeth makes no appearanceat all.

(I thought this was fiting to put after Elisabeth as it’s about the same Rudolf, the same historical figure as who’s in Elisabeth).

Week 5: Rebecca das Musical 2011 Stuttgart Production

25th of September 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German Cast: Christina Patten (Ich u/s), Jan Ammann (Maxim de Winter), Pia Douwes (Mrs Danvers), Kerstin Ibald (Beatrice Lacy), Carl van Wegberg (Jack Favell u/s), Matthias Graf (Frank Crawley), Isabel Dörfler (Mrs Van Hopper), Oliver Heim (Ben), Giles (Raphael Dörr) Summary: Based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The second Mrs. de Winter (credited as ‘Ich’ (German for ‘I’) in the musical) falls in love with Maxim de Winter and the two quickly get married and she moves to his large estate in England, Manderly. She soon learns that all Maxim’s staff loved his first wife, Rebecca, and find her quite strange. Non more so than the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, who’s devotion and love to her former mistress seems to go beyond that of a housekeeper, and seems to talk as if Rebecca’s ghost was in the air around them. As time progresses the nature of who Rebecca was and how she died starts to come into question.

Week 6: Notre Dame de Paris 1998 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

2nd of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: French TW: sexual assault Cast: Hélène Ségara (Esmeralda), Garou (Quasimodo), Daniel Lavoie (Frollo), Bruno Pelletier (Gringoire), Patrick Fiori (Phoebus), Luck Marvil (Clopin), Julie Zenatti (Fleur-de-Lys) Summary: Based on Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Quasimodo, a hunchback who spends his life hidden in Notre Dame, falls in love with the bohemian girl Esmerelda, but she is in love with Phoebus, the fiance of Fleur-de-Lys. Meanwhile, Frollo, the priest of Notre-Dame, feels uncontrolled and violent desires for Esmerelda. This musical has a much darker tone and ending than the Disney one (Random fact, according to the Guinness Book of Records, had the most successful first year of any musical ever.)

Week 7: Mozart das Musical 2015 Vienna Revival (Proshot)

9th of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German Cast: Oedo Kuipers (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Mark Seibert (Prince-Archbishop Colloredo), Franziska Schuster (Constance Weber), Thomas Borchert (Leopold Mozart), Barbara Obermeier (Nannerl Mozart), Ana Milva Gomes (Baronin van Waldstätten), Brigitte Oelke (Cecilia Weber) Johannes Glück (Emanuel Schikaneder), Jon Geoffrey Goldsworthy (Graf Arco), Stefan Poslovski (Fridolin Weber) Summary: Based on the life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The musical starts with Mozart leaving the employment of Prince-Archbishop Colloredo and travelling through Europe, and focus on his relationship with his wife Constanze, his friend a collaborate Emanuel Schikaneder, his sister, his on-and-off employer Colloredo, and his deteriorating relationship with his father.

Week 8: 3 Musketiers 2003 Original Netherlands Production (Proshot)

16th of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: Dutch Cast: Bastiaan Ragas (D'Artagnan),Tooske Breugem (Constance), Henk Poort (Athos), Cees Geel (Porthos), Rein Kolpa (Aramis), Pia Douwes (Milady De Winter), Stanley Burleson (Cardinal Richelieu), Ellen Evers (Queen Anna), Christo van Klaveren (King Louis XIII/Theatre Leader), Bart de Vries (Lord Buckingham/D'Artagnan's Father), Ids van der Krieke (Rochefort/James) Summary: D’Artagnan wants nothing more than to be a musketeer just like his father, but his father disproves. After his father’s death, D’Artagnan decides to find his destiny and sets of to Paris, where he accidentally encounters Athos, Porthos and Aramis - three of the king’s most loyal musketeers. Meanwhile, Cardinal Richelieu plots to turn the King Louis XII and Queen Anne against each other as he wants to wipe out the Huguenots (Protestants) and keeps Milady de Winter under his thumb as a spy. D’Artagnan falls in love with Constance, the handmaiden to the Queen, and is entrusted by her with a mission that takes him to England. The two vow to see each other again. Athos tries to move on from the ghost of his past love, but perhaps she not a ghost after all.

Week 9: Jesus Christ Superstar 2005 Amstetten Production (Proshot)

23rd of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: English TW: suicidal themes Cast: Steven Seale (Jesus Christ), Drew Sarich (Judas Iscariot), Kudra Owens (Mary Magdalene), Rob Fowler (Pontius Pilate), Tom Tucker (Caiaphas), Eric Minsk (Annas), Pehtom Quirante (King Herod), Ronnie Vero Wagner (Simon Zealotes), Ivo Chundro (Peter) Summary:

Week 10: Dracula the Musical 2008 Graz Production (Proshot)

30th of October 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German Cast: Thomas Borchert (Dracula), Lyn Liechty (Mina Murray), Jesper Tydén (Jonathan Harker), Uwe Kröger (Professor Abraham van Helsing), Caroline Vasicek (Lucy Westenra), Eric Minsk (Renfield), Lucius Wolter (Arthur Holmwood), Rory Six (Dr. Jack Seward), Robert D. Marx (Quincey Morris), Marion Furtner & Stefanie Tydén & Bucky van Zijl (Dracula's brides) Summary: A retelling of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer from England, travels to Translvania to meet with Count Dracula. However, the Count notices a picture of Jonathan’s fiancee Mina Murray and becomes obsessed with finding the women in the picture. (Originally a Broadway musicals, but it was re-written for it’s St Gallen production and then re-written again with extra songs for the Graz production.)

Week 11: Demon Onegin / Onegin’s Demon 2016 Original St Petersburg Production

6th of November 11pm GMT (UK will have left daylight savings time) Language: russian Cast: Ivan Ozhogin (Eugene Onegin) Summary: Based on the 1837 Russian novel Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. In 1820s St. Petersburg, Eugene Onegin is bored of his life of balls, concert and parties. When his wealthy uncle dies, leaving him a fortune and an estate, he moved to the countryside. He soon discovers this new life is not what he thought it would be, and struggles to emphathize and relate to his new friends and neighbours. He is selfish and cold and lives to regret his blasé rejection of a young woman’s love for him and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend.

Week 12: Der Graf von Monte Cristo 2009 Original Swiss Production (Proshot)

13th of November 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Thomas Borchert (Edmond Dantès), Sophie Berner (Mercédès), Fernand, Carsten Lepper (Mondego), Christoph Goetten (Gérard von Villefort), Karim Khawatmi (Baron Danglars), Dean Welterlen (Abbé Faria), Kurt Schrepfer (Jacopo), Daniel Berini (Albert Mondego), Barbara Obermeier (Valentine de Villefort), Ava Brannan (Vuisa Vampa), André Bauer (Morrel) Summary:  Based on the 1844 novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas. Edmond Dantès is set to be happily married, but is fasley accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trail on a grim island fortress. While in prison he and a fellow prisoner Abbé Faria work out that he was set up by his friend Fernand Mondego, who is secretly in love with Dantès’ fiancee, his crewmate Danglars who is jealous that Dantès got promoted over him, and the magistrate De Villefort, who sent him to prison knowing he was innocent because the true criminal was his own father. Dantès plans to escape, return home, and take his revenge.

Week 13: Mozart L’Opéra Rock 2010 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

20th of November 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Mikelangelo Loconte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Florent Mothe (Antonio Salieri), Claire Perot (Constanze Weber), Melissa Mars (Aloysia Weber), Maeva Méline (Nannerl Mozart), Solal (Leopold Mozart), Yamin Dib (Count Rosenberg), Merwan Rim (Innkeeper/Clown), Delphine Grandsart (Cäcilia Weber), Estelle Micheau (The Diva), Jocelyne Sand (Anna Maria Mozart), Mathias Jung (Colloredo/The Stranger), Patrice Maktav (Lorenzo da Ponte), Jean-Michel Meunier (Fridolin Weber/Joseph II), Marjolaine Piémont (Josepha Weber), Laurie Peret (Sophie Weber), Nuno Resende (Gottlieb Stephanie) Summary: Based on the life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It starts with Mozart leaving the employment of Prince-Archbishop Colloredo and travelling around Europe, just as Mozart das Musical does. However, this musical focuses more on Mozart’s time in Vienna and his relationship with fellow composer and rival Antonio Salieri, while also looking at the relationship with his wife and his father. 

Week 14: Roméo et Juliette 2001 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

27th of November 11pm GMT Language: French Cast:  Damien Sargue (Romeo Montague), Cécilia Cara (Juliet Capulet), Tom Ross (Tybalt), Philippe D'Avilla (Mercutio), Grégori Baquet (Benvolio), Eléonore Beaulieu (Lady Montague), Isabelle Ferron (Lady Capulet), Réjane Perry (The Nurse), Sébastian El Chato (Lord Capulet), Jean Claude-Hadida (Friar Laurent), Frederic Charter (The Prince), Essaï (Paris), Serge Le Borgne (The Poet), Anne Mano (Death) Summary: Based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. An age-old fued between the Capulet and the Montague families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues decide to show up to the Capulet’s ball, where Romeo Montague instantly calls in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her cousin Paris.

Week 15: Jesus Christ Superstar 2014 Swedish Area Tour (Proshot)

4th of December 11pm GMT Language: Swedish TW: suicidal themes Cast: Ola Salo (Jesus Christ), Peter Johansson (Judas Iscariot), Gunilla Backman (Mary Magdalene) Summary:

Week 16: The Last Trial 2016 Russian Production (Proshot)

10th of December 11pm GMT Language: Russian Cast: Evgeny Egorov (Raistlin Majere), Elena Minina (Crysania), Andrey Lobashov (Caramon Majere), Vera Zudina (Takhisis), Alexey Tolstorkorov (King-Priest), Irina Kruglova (Tika), and Anton Kruglov (Dalamar) Summary: The dark mage Raistlin Majere seeks to descend into the Abyss and overthrow his mentor, the dark goddess Takhisis, and take her place as a god. To achieve this goal, he recruits his twin brother Caramon and the innocent cleric Crysania into helping him. But when Raistlin falls in love with Crysania, his bond with Caramon begins to deteriorate, and Takhisis begins to taunt him about his shortcomings, how high of a cost is he willing to pay to achieve godhood?

Week 17: Les Dix Commandements 2001 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

18th of December 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary:

! Skipping two weeks as both Christmas day and News Years day land on Saturdays !

Week 18: I Am From Austria 2019 Original Vienna Production (Proshot)

8th of January 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Iréna Flury (Emma Carter), Lukas Perman (Josi Edler), Elisabeth Engstler (Romy Edler), Andreas Steppan (Wolfgang Edler), Martin Bermoser (Richard Rattinger), Dolores Schmidinger (Elfie Schratt), Matthias Trattner (Felix Moser), Karim Ben Mansur (Pablo García), Martin Berger (Rainer Berger) Summary:

Week 19: 1789: Les amants de la Bastille 2012 Original Paris Cast (Proshot)

15th of January 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Louis Delort (Ronan), Camille Lou (Olympe), Rod Janois (Camille Desmoulins), Roxane Le Texier (Marie Antoinette), Sébastien Agius (Maximilien de Robespierre), Nathalia (Solène), Mathieu Carnot (Lazare), David Ban (Georges Jacques Danton), Yamin Dib (Auguste Ramard), Charlie Loiselier (Sonia Ben Ammar/Morgane Rouault/Elisa Bergomi/Eva Baranes), Philippe Escande (Louis XVI), Tatiana Matre (Yolande de Polignac), Guillaume Delvingt (Jacques Necker), Cyril Romoli (Charles X of France) Summary: Set in France during the rule of King Louis XVI, a found revolutionary named Ronan wants to take down Paris after his father is killed by a nobleman. When he arrives in Paris, he encounters and falls in love with Olympe, an assistant governess to the children of Marie Antoinette. But can their love endure as their classes collide and they are separated, determined to find each other again.

Week 21: Le Roi Soleil 2005 Original Paris Cast (Proshot)

22nd of January 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary: Based on the life of King Louis XIV of France. The musical follows Louis from when he is first consecrated King at Reims until his marriage. The musical focuses on Louis’ many relationship with Marie Mancini, an Italian emigrant without nobel birth and his fall in battle that leads his people to believe he is dead, and the fights and opposition his family, the court, and the church have to him wanting to marry someone not of nobel birth.

Week 20: Elisabeth das Musical 2002 Essen Production (Proshot)

29th of January 11pm GMT Language: German TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Carsten Lepper (Luigi Lucheni), Andre Bauer (Franz Joseph), Jesper Tydén (Rudolf) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 21: Roméo et Juliette 2004 Hungarian Production (Proshot)

5th of February 11pm GMT Language: Hungarian Cast: Dolhai Attila (Romeo Montague), Szinetár Dóra (Juliet Capulet), Szabó P.Szilveszter (Tybalt), Bereczki Zoltán (Mercutio), Mészáros Árpád Zsolt (Benvolio), Csengery Ottília (Lady Montague), Janza Kata (Lady Capulet), Náray Erika (The Nurse), Csuha Lajos (Lord Capulet), Földes Tamás (Friar Laurent), Németh Attila (The Prince), Homonnay Zsolt (Paris) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 22: Elisabeth das Musical 2004 Budapest Production (Proshot)

12th of February 11pm GMT Language: Hungarian TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Janza Kata (Elisabeth), Szabó P. Szilvester (Der Tod), Földes Tamás (Luigi Lucheni), Bereczki Zoltán (Franz Joseph), Dolhai Attila (Rudolf) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 23: Roméo et Juliette 2010 Paris Revival (Proshot)

19th of February 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Damien Sargue (Romeo Montague), Joy Esther (Juliet Capulet), Tom Ross (Tybalt), John Eyzen (Mercutio), Cyril Niccolaï (Benvolio), Brigitte Venditti (Lady Montague), Stéphanie Rodrigue (Lady Capulet), Ida Gordon (The Nurse), Sébastian El Chato (Lord Capulet), Frédéric Charter (Friar Laurent), Stéphane Métro (The Prince), Arié Itah (Paris), Serge Le Borgne (The Poet) Summary: See earlier summary.

Week 24: Le Rouge et le Noir 2016 Original Paris Production (Proshot)

26th of February 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary: A French comedy musical based on the novel The Red and the Black by Stendhal. Set during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, it tells the story of Julian Sorel’s life in France’s rigid social structure that has now been restored to what it was before the French Revolution. Julian attempts to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception and hypocrisy. 

Week 25: Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte 2009 Original Paris Produciton

5th of March 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary:

Week 26: Adam et Ève: La Seconde Chance 2012 Original Paris Production

12th of March 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Summary: A retelling of Adam and Eve. Eden is a major city populated by humans. Solus is about to annonce the marriage of his daughter Lilith to Adam, a general-in-chief of the soldiers of Eden. The end of his speech is interrupted by the rebels, lead by a man called Snake, who have been driven out of the city walls by Solus’ rule. Adam and the other soldiers fight them, but Adam’s attention is captivate by one of the revels, Eve. As Adam and Lilith prepare to say their vows, the revels intervene and Eve convinces Adam to go with her. Solus and Lilith are enraged, and are determined to get Adam back and punish Eve and the other rebels.

Week 27: Ein Wenig Farbe (A Touch of Colour) Original 2018 Vienna Production

19th of March 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Pia Douwes (Helena) Summary: A musical with only one character, Helena, a trans woman, who recounts her life.

Week 28: Artus Excalibur 2014 Original St Gallen Production Proshot

26th of March 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Patrick Stanke (Arthur), Annemieke van Dam (Guinevere), Mark Seibert (Lancelot), Thomas Borchert (Merlin), Sabrina Weckerlin (Morgana), Alexander Bellinkx (Ector), Robert Johansson (Loth), Kevin Foster (Sir Gareth) Summary: Based on the legends of King Arthur. Uther Pendragon lusts after the beautiful Igraine and makes a deal with the wizard Merlin to magically disguise him as Igraine’s husband so he can sleep with her. Igraine becomes pregnant with Uther’s child and dies giving birth to him. Merlin names the child Arthur and takes him away to be raised by Sir Ector. In his anger, Uther violates his daughter Morgana before banishing her to a nunnery. Years later after Uther dies, Merlin places the sword Excalibur in a stone and says whoever can pull it out is the next true King of England. Arthur goes to the stone with his best friend Lancelot, and manages to pull the sword from the stone. Arthur now has to deal with suddenly being King, learning his childhood was a lie, the threat of his jealous half-sister, and falling in love and the betrayal it will bring.

Week 29: La Légende du roi Arthur 2015 Original Paris Production Proshot

2nd of April 11pm GMT Language: French Cast: Florent Mothe (Arthur), Zaho (Morgan le Fay), Camille Lou (Guinevere), Charlie Boisseau (Lancelot), Fabien Incardona (Maleagant) Summary: Based on the legends of King Arthur. The musical opens with members of nobility trying to pull Excalibur from the stone, but in the end it is Arthur, a young groom in the service of his adoptive brother, who pulls the sword free. The Kingdom turns their nose up at the idea of a King from lowly birth, but when Merlin reveals Arthur’s true lineage as the son of the last King, some refuse to accept the rule of an illegitimate royal child and declare war.

Week 30: Der Besuch der alten Dame Vienna Boot

9th of April 11pm GMT Language: German Cast: Pia Douwes (Claire Zachanassian), Uwe Kr  ger (Alfred Ill), Ethan Freeman (Klaus Brandstetter) Summary: Based on the play The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.  Claire Zachanassian is an enormously wealthy older woman who returns to her hometown with a terrible bargain for the townspeople. She wants them to kill the man who got her pregnant and then abandoned her. In exchange she will give them all enough money to revitalize the decrepit town.

I may find more musicals with English subtitles and more people may make and upload ones with English subtitles so just because the list ends here doesn’t mean there won’t ever be more streams after this. (There’s been 2 updates so far.)

I cannot believe how much time this is lasting?! So, if anything happens in my life that means I can’t still host streams in 6 months time please don’t get angry at me and understand I cannot see that far into the future. 

If anything happens that means a stream can’t happen one week, everything will be pushed back one week. If this or anything else happens that effects this schedule I’ll post about it and tag it with ‘#emptymasks musical streams’

Taglist: @tanzderwhat @ladysapphire928 @du-gehoerst-nur-mir @into-the-stratosphere @sloanedestler @me-another-fangirl @ami-fidele @sirona-art @octaviangrey (i cant tag you, i’m guessing you have your privacy settings so people can’t tag you) @smilingwoland @the-weird-dane @ringwraith100 @kisstheghouls @ashadeintheshade @senna-things @aphaea21 @calebara​  @senna-things​ @kreepykittyreturns​ @gaymelie​ @gothic-aesthetic-gal​ @freshbloodandgothicism​ 

[europeanmusicals]

europeanmusicals is a 'source' type blog dedicated to European musicals, not including the West End. This may sometimes include Asian productions of European musicals, and European productions of Broadway and West End musicals. It also includes European musical actors solo work and concerts.

Here you'll find resources, masterlists and recommendations about how to get into European musicals, where to watch and listen to them, and where to buy tickets and merchandise. Along with posts of audios and videos, gifs, official images and news. Tracks #europeanmusicaledit and #europeanmusicals to reblog any gifs, edits, fanart, fanfic, videos and audios.

We have a Discord now! https://discord.gg/du7jmxXQd3

The blog is better views in the website view (username.tumblr.com) so you can see the theme properly and all the links and recourses within the blog theme.

About The Blog and Owner

This blog is run by @emptymasks , I'm a neurodivergent trans man who uses he/him pronouns and can struggle with understanding tone so use of tone tags in asks and dms are appreciated, especially so I can understand if you're joking or being sarcastic or not.

This blog doesn't tolerate bigotry of any kind. Any asks or dms sent with any sort of bigotry will just be deleted and the sender will be blocked.

I'm not taking requests to make any particular gifts, art, videos, fics, etc.

If you want me to be more likely to see your European musical content and reblog it to here please tag it with #european musicals I try to check that tag as often as possible.

I only speak English so if you send an ask in a language other than English I probably won't be able to answer it.

Useful Links and Resources

‘So you want to get into non-English language musicals?’ first recc list with links

WennLi3b3 on archive.org (lots of cast albums and proshots, subtitles and sheet music)

musical_lover_1980n on archive.org (not me or anyone i know) who has uploaded many cast albums

VK Communities (Russian website that has many fanpages for musicals that include info, photos, videos, audios, etc): Drew Sarich | Elisabeth das Musical | Mark Seibert | Takarazuka | Thomas Borchert | Máté Kamarás | Pia Douwes | Wenn Ich Tanzen Will (general musical theatre) | Uwe Kroger | Vera Sveshnikova | FrMusic (French Musicals & Music) | The Kingdom of Musicals (general musical theatre) | Kevin Tarte | moments. (general musical theatre) | The Phantom of the Opera | Love French Musicals | Jesper Tydén | Oedo Kuipers | Ramin Karimloo | Wicked | Willemijn Verkaik | musical.com | Kunze & Levay Musicals | Takarazuka Revue | Tanz der Vampire | Notre Dame de Paris | Elisabeth das Musical | Frank Wildhorn | Lestat Musical | Jesus Christ Superstar | The Phantom of the Opera | Les Misérables | Tanz der Vampire | Ivan Ozhogin | Yaroslav Bayarunas | Alexander Kazmin | John Eyzen | Jan Amman | Taffes Buro (Rudolf Affaire Mayerling) | Marjan Shaki & Lukas Perman | Romeo et Juliette (the Italian production)

#non english language musicals for all of my masterlists and info posts

‘Where to watch and listen to non-English language musicals?’ post with links 

emptymasks’ musical streams calendar & info post part 1 | part 2 (old/finished)

Elisabeth das Musical Japanese Productions Masterlist

German-Language Musicals with English Subs & German-Speaking Countries Performing Musicals in English Masterlist

[dervampireprince]

What’s your favorite thing/person to draw?

oooooooo favourite thing to draw? this might be too broad but clothes. i love drawing clothes. as a kid i would mostly draw clothes like i would draw one body and then trace that a bunch and just draw and design different clothes for it. i love drawing clothes and coming up with outfits.

person? you know i was thinking i don't have an answer but i think i do because in these last few years he's been the character i've drawn the most, if i don't know what to draw 80% chance i'll just draw him, and that's graf von krolock from the german musical 'tanz der vampire', specifically drew sarich's version of the character. i love the shape of his hair and the little grey streak in it, the collar of his cape, his nose shape,

for proof, here's a bunch of krolocks from the last few years (ft my changing art style) (and yes some of the watermarks say @emptymasks , that is also me, thats just my main/sfw account)

i've really loved drawing the wolf/muerte/death from puss in boots this year

and last year, 2022, my go to 'help i cant stop drawing him' character was dream (if you watched any of my magma group drawing streams last year.. yeah he and hob were all i could draw for a while)

oh.. my god... i didn't actually realise how many times i'd drawn him. and all of that art is from September 2022 - December 2022. damn i'd like to have the drive to do that much personal art again, all that art (apart from the big audio thumbnail art) was just for fun, and all drawn on stream with members of chat in magma. i miss doing art just for fun. i gotta recapture whatever motivational brain rot dreamling gave me.

[emptymasks]

Night After Night for a Hundred Years

Pairing: None

Words: 1469

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Tags: Suicide | Implied/Referenced Suicide | Depression | References to Depression | Heavy Angst | Angst | Character Death | Canonical Character Death | Internal Monologue | Time Loop | Time Loop AU

Read on Ao3 @ emptymasks (can’t link it or tumblr will block this post)

Notes: An idea given by the people in my weekly musical stream chat a couple of weeks ago, so a prompt given in collaboration by... people I wish i could but I don’t know any of your Tumblr names, but by mojito, kingbrandrick, cal, and meanotherfangirl.

So this is the third thing I’ve written this year. How sad. I wrote so much last year, I don’t know what’s happened to me this year. I’ve found it very hard to get inspiration for writing and then even hard to actually do it. But here’s something. It’s not romantic, it’s not sexual, and it’s not for a popular fandom, and it has trigger warnings. Well done, Damien. You’re really out here giving the people what they want to read. /s /jk

More notes under the cut.

His body didn’t twitch like it had the first time. The real time.

Luigi Lucheni, anarchist, watched as blood dripped down from his hand. Her blood. He swung his body in an attempt to see where the blood would land, but everything was so dark he wasn’t even sure there was a ground underneath him anymore.

He waited for the judge to say something. He waited to her the verdict. But there was only silence.

Was there to be no verdict? He was guilty, he admitted it. But here guilt or innocence didn’t matter, what mattered was why he has done it. Lucheni had assumed if he explained he only explained what Death had asked him to do, had sickly, sweetly whispered into his ear, he’d be okay. This was Death’s domain was it not? And he’d done Death a favour.

But he was still just hanging here.

As his arms swung, they brushed against the file he had tucked back into his pocket. He still wasn’t sure there was anything underneath him, but he wasn’t going to just hang here for eternity.

Cutting the rope above his head took longer than he’d thought it would and he tried not to focus on whatever the effects of seeing and doing all of this was having on him. It’s not as though there were therapists in the afterlife.

He wondered if he nicked his skin if he would bleed.

The last part of the rope snapped from his weight before he could cut it and he soon discovered there was indeed ground underneath him as he smacked down onto it. It took a few seconds before he stopped panicking about if he was hurt, remembering once again that he was dead.

He’d already been dead when he’d had to retie that noose around his neck. He’d already been dead as he wanted to fight against his body, jerking as he thrust his file between the Empress’s ribs. He'd already been dead the entire time he'd had to reenact this depressing play.

And it had been funny at first, to watch the royals and nobles trip and stumble and mess up each other's lives. A would-be empress with a father who ran away and a mother who favoured her eldest, and an emperor with a mother so over-bearing he allowed her to bully his own children. Watching them sometimes almost made him wonder if the orphanage had been better than what parents would do to their own children. And then they'd do something so utterly stupid he'd laugh otherwise he'd cry at how incompetent they all were.

They thought Death was inhuman? At least they made no attempt to hide what they were. All the while Death had whispered to him, Lucheni had never assumed any of it was for his own benefit. He'd never thought Death was trying to help him. But he had liked the idea. He was so enraged at the aristocracy he didn't care who's body lay impaled on his file. They were all the same. Greedy and ignorant and privileged and petty and blind.

Had he felt for little Sissi? She was thrust into some tormenting situations and her wealth and status didn't make her feelings less real. But she ran away from all her problems when she could have been a voice in the Emperor's ear. If she was so fascinated with the regular people why not make change instead of just gawking at them in asylums?

Perhaps he'd felt something for Rudolf. Born into an already sinking situation, taken from his mother...

His mother had named him Louis... When he'd joined the Italian army he'd changed his name to fit in more. His mother's name had been Luigia.

He wasn't sure if he remembered what she looked like anymore.

Mind frozen and yet moving in slow motion, he felt the tears on the backs of his hands as he hunched over his knees before he fully realised he was crying.

Had his actions made any difference? He'd wanted to cause the aristocracy to realise that the lower masses mattered, that they were powerful. He'd wanted to be a martyr. And instead they'd denied him that right and sent him to a cell. Would anyone read his writings? Had they already been destroyed? Had they buried him or burnt him?

They'd remember his name, at least. The man who murdered the beloved Elisabeth of Austria. His name would be forever tied to her, but it would be remembered.

Rebel, anarchist, murderer. Never martyr. Maybe they'd call him a coward. He didn't care.

He didn't want to care.

The man Lucheni stared out into the darkness around him. The boy Louis stared out into the abyss.

With a sudden lurch in his stomach he pushed himself onto his feet. He had the sudden urge to run, run as far and as fast as he could even though he knew there was no exist.

He took a step.

"But why, Lucheni?"

Instead of jumping he felt ice run through his veins and into his feet.

"Why did you murder the Empress Elisabeth?" The Judge's voice rang out as it had for one hundred years.

Lucheni's tongue was thick and heavy in his mouth.

"Was my last answer not satisfactory enough?" His wanted to scream, but his voice was quiet and sad.

"Answer, Luigi Lucheni!"

"I have! I did! Every night for a hundred years you ask and ask and now I am finally granted the power to show my proof of what Death themself wanted. And that still isn't good enough?"

"The hideous murder of the Empress of Austria, explain at last what was behind it."

"I did, I just did. What, should I have used smaller words?" Lucheni shot back. He hated the formless Judge, he hated his pompous, shouting voice.

"Don't talk nonsense."

"How is this nonsense? Were you not...?"

After going through such an ordeal it was hard to recall everything all at once, especially given how all his conversations with the Judge could blur into one but... This seemed too familiar. The Judge's words they were the same as the last time? Weren't they? Lucheni might be responding differently, but the Judge was saying the same things as last time! As though he was reading a script. But why? Hadn't be done what was wanted of him? Hadn't he explained it?

Perhaps he was imagining it. The Judge was still responding in ways that made sense to what Lucheni was saying. Maybe he was just a man, or whatever he was, of the same few words?

"What more do you want of me?"

"What witnesses would they be?"

No.

No.

If Lucheni still had a beating heart it would have stopped.

"What sort of game is this? What do you get out of toying with me?"

The judge did not respond.

Lucheni blinked grey light slithered in, bringing along with it the stumbling veiled corpses of Elisabeth's family and... well not friends, but comrades.

The curtain was rising again.

He felt his body pulled towards the ramp descending from some dark ceiling. It certainly was not the sky.

The wire railing almost cut through his fingers form how tight he gripped it as he willed for his body to do what he wanted it do to.

Oh, is this how they had felt? The rest of these miserable ghosts, Had they watched on as Lucheni danced around them and moved them?

Lucheni started laughing. He started laughing and he couldn't stop. Oh, alright then. If this was to be show, he'd give them a show. He'd make all of their afterlives as miserable and torturous as his own. He'd already been stuck answering these questions for a hundred years, let's see try and cope with a hundred years of the same boring routine.

"You avoid the point, Lucheni. Love. Death. Don't tell fairytales."

His laughs could be mistaken for sobs as he slid down the ramp. He felt the cold before the turned to see the blue glow from above the other end.

Death's pale eyes regarded him. The white clothes really made them look like an angel. But they was no angel, nor devil. They were no god of death. They were death incarnate, death personified.

"Who were you working for, Lucheni."

Was Death in control here? Why would they return for this? Lucheni tried to convey his need for answers with his eyes. Who was the Judge? Was he more powerful than Death.

Was he God?

Was there a God?

Death only said one word. They uttered her name. Lucheni said it back.

Then Death turned and existed the stage.

"The motive, Lucheni?"

Lucheni dragged himself off the floor and smiled, eyes wide and unfocused.

"Love!" He screamed. "Un grande amoure!"

[emptymasks]

When are you planning to start your streams? Can anyone come?

Okay so I'm going to make this a stream FAQ/Q&A sort of post:

"When are you planning to start your streams?"

Soon!! I was waiting a bit to see how people responded to my last post about suggested times and dates. I'll be making a post soon that will list off all the dates and what musical we will be watching each week and I'll try and tag as many people who have shown interest in wanting to join.

"Can anyone come?"

Yes! You don't have to be someone I've spoken too before, you don't have to be someone who is mutuals with me or friends with me, you can be someone who literally just found my blog yesterday. Sure I would like it if you followed me, but that's also not a rule, the link will be public and anyone can join. You can send it to your friends or family who don't have Tumblr if they want to join, I know some of my Discord friends will be coming along as well as people from Tumblr. But it should go without saying if anyone behaves awfully I will ban you from the room, but I doubt any of you will. I will say as this is open to Tumblr there is a potential for minors to be in the chat so you know don't talk about explicit NSFW things.

Where will the streams be hosted, how can I join?

I host my streams through Kosmi and if you attended my birthday stream of Tanz Der Vampire then you're familiar with it. Kosmi can be watched on PC or Mobile, and it's free and you don't even have to make an account. It's also a website not a PC app so you don't have to worry about downloading anything (there is also an app version though if you would prefer to use that, but I've always just used the website). I would, however, recommend that you do make an account. Without an account you will show up as 'anonymous' in the chat box to the side of the video and if you want to chat and there's 10 different 'anonymous' people it can get confusing. I'd recommend you set up a username before the stream starts. The room will me marked 'private' which means only people with the link can enter, and not just anyone who's browsing Kosmi.

Do I have to take part in the chat?

No! There is no pressure to chat, and if you just want to lurk and stay silent and watch that is completely fine! If I get sucked into what we're watching I may forget about the chat anyway, ha. But the chat's just there if people want to comment on what's happening, react to things, hey maybe make friends I don't know, or just ask questions if you're confused on anything.

What if I'm late?

I'll likely start the video up to 10 minutes after the scheduled time for anyone who is just setting things up or slightly late, but I won't be hanging around for people for ages. Once the stream starts I will stop it in the intermission for 10 or so minutes for people to get snacks or drinks or toilet breaks. I'll get everyone to check in when they come back and once everyone seems to be back I'll start act 2, sorry in advance if I start act 2 and you're not back yet, it's hard to keep track of everyone if there's a fair amount of people. You can join in the stream at any time, the room will always be open and I'll be using the same room for all of the streams which means you can keep reusing the same link and the chat log from the previous nights will still be there. That also means you can peak in between streams so I'm trusting you all to not misbehave with the chat while the streams aren't running throughout the week. But yes you can still join in at any time during the stream, the room will not be closing once the video starts, I just won't be rewinding the video for you.

Kosmi is a really good website and I'd so recommend it! You can share videos in three different ways: screen sharing (but while screen-sharing internet browser keeps the volume, screen sharing programs does not) which I've used to stream Netflix shows with friends, from a URL like Youtube or Twitch or Vimeo, or directly from a file on your computer. Watch party is only one of three functions and while I've never clicked on the other two before there's a small range of games to play and console emulators.

Omg though while checking settings for the room, because I've just set it up, I realised you can also share music as well and I had the silly idea that I could have music running before the streams start for anyone who shows up early, you know like you have in cinema's before the trailers and adverts come on? (At least that's how it is in UK cinemas, they play music until the lights dim for adverts, then trailers, then lights go all the way off for the movie).

My TDV birthday stream went well and people came who I knew and some who I didn't and we all had fun! There is no pressure to talk, but if you want to everyone is normally very approachable and friendly.

[emptymasks]

Reminder for the stream tonight!

Week 3: Elisabeth das Musical 2005 Vienna Revival (Proshot)

11th of September 11pm BST/GMT+1 Language: German TW: themes of suicide, depression, anxiety Cast: Maya Hakvoort (Elisabeth), Máté Kamarás (Der Tod), Serkan Kaya (Luigi Lucheni), Andre Bauer (Franz Joseph), Fritz Schmid (Rudolf), Else Ludwig (Sophie), Johann Ebert (Young Rudolf), Luzia Nistler (Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Kerstin Ibald (Gräfin Esterhazy), Sigrid Brandstetter (Helene)

Summary: The musical follows the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth ‘Sissi’, but with a supernatural twist. Her obsession with death grows as her mental health declines, as Death falls in love with her and tries to convince her to kill herself so they can be together. He watches her from her marriage to Kaiser Franz-Joseph in 1854 to her murder in 1989 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni. (None of that was a spoiler, you find out she dies at the end in the first minute of the musical). Things I love: Mental health: In particular both Elisabeth and Rudolf suffer from anxiety and depression. LGBT+ characters: death can be seen as genderfluid or non-binary, in the original production and vienna revival has scenes where he presents as male and later female, and the original actor has described him almost genderfluid in interviews. death aims to seduce both a female and a male character, and rudolf is shown as being bisexual.

Full schedule and stream room link: https://emptymasks.tumblr.com/post/659973961272246272/its-finally-happening-after-saying-i-wanted-to

[emptymasks]

its stream night tonight! i definitely didn't forget until 5 minutes ago because i've been a bit all over the place this week in terms of sleeping. but elisabeth das musical original 1992 proshot will be streaming in about an hour

full post with stream details and link to the streaming room

edit: i have been informed that its the anniversary of the original production of elisabeth today and i had no idea this was just timed perfectly?? this musical is 29 years old now

[emptymasks]

i really appreciate you hosting the musical streams! can i plug them and mention them to other people i know on the internet? if you dont want this info to spread outside of tumblr i wont do so

yes of course! anyone is free to join, whether they're on tumblr or not. i share the stream links to discord servers i'm in and i've been back and forth of whether to mention it on my tiktok. but yeah anyone can join, from any social media or anyone you know irl who doesn't use tumblr or anything like that.

[emptymasks]

Today is stream day, right? I've been hyped all week about it and I keep rereading the date so I don't get it wrong, because my brain keeps going "MUSICAL! MUSICAL WITH OTHER COOL PEOPLE!", I'm so sorry if this sounds weird I'm just ecstatic about people loving musicals!

know, happy to meet new people, happy to watch with those who know the musical, and those that have never seen it before. I've streamed this Tanz once before for my birthday and it's so fun watching with people who haven't seen it before and see their reactions to certain parts.

Ah Drewlock be beloved. It is almost time to see you again.

I'll post the room link here again https://kosmi.app/nrs5nx , I'll try to be in it all day, I'll have some music playing closer to the time before the video starts for any early-birds. I was good and had self-control and didn't make the playlist 100% Drew Sarich.

[emptymasks]

Hi, just a quick question about the musical stream schedule! Is there supposed to be a musical on March 19th between adam & eve and Ein wenig farbe? Or is that meant to be a break? I noticed the schedule goes from the 12th straight to 26th. Thanks!

Oh uhhhhh no it is not meant to skip a week, that is a mistake on my part I guess I skipped a row when checking the dates of each Saturday on my calendar. I'll go ahead and fix that, thank you for pointing it out!

[emptymasks]

It’s my birthday on May 21st and since I can’t go out and celebrate, l thought it could be fun to host a stream of one of my favourite musicals! I’ve been getting a lot of new followers from my posts introducing and explaining European musicals / non-English language musicals and hopefully this will attract some people who’ve never watched Tanz Der Vampire before. I wish more people would give things not in English a chance.

[Text from above gif: emptymasks’ birthday stream! Tanz Der Vampire, German language musicals with English subtitles. Berlin 2011 cast. 2 hours and 26 minutes long. 21st May 2021, 11pm BST UK time (GMT+1). 5pm CDT/6PM EDT/7PM MDT/8PM PDT]

Genre: Horror comedy romance musical. There’s a little blood as it is about vampires, but no gore and no jump scares or anything meant to be scary. If you like gothic horror or Phantom of the Opera or rock operas there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy this. Or if you just like vampires. TW: Some fake blood and there are flashing lights in a few places. By: Music by Jim Steinman. Lyrics and book by Michael Kunze. Summary: Professor Ambronsius and his young assistant Alfred are on the hunt for vampires and stumble upon a small village. They suspect that the villagers know more about vampires than they let on, and soon discover there is a castle in the woods where the vampire Graf von Krolock and his son Herbert live. While staying at the inn, Alfred meets Sarah, the innkeeper’s daughter, her father being so overprotective that he keeps her locked in her room every day and every night. Sarah longs to escape her life and has been secretly conversing with Krolock for some time. She’s no damsel in distress, she’s attracted to him and what he offers and so she sneaks out of her home and goes to his castle. Alfred is convinced she has been kidnapped and he and the Professor go to the castle to rescue her.

Did you know Total Eclipse of the Heart was originally written to be a vampire love song but Jim Steinman abandoned the Nosferatu musical idea and gave the song to Bonnie Tyler, but then used it again when he finally got to make a vampire musical? But this is not a jukebox musical. There are 9 songs in this musical that are reused either in whole in or parts from previous Steinman songs, but the other 22 are new original compositions. 

There are canon LGBT+ characters! Graf von Krolock (Count von Krolock) is bisexual and his son Herbert is gay. And there are multiple amazing dance sequences.

This is the link to the room I’ll be streaming in: app.kosmi.io/room/47y7kb (can’t post it as a proper hyperlink here otherwise Tumblr will do it’s great job of blocking the post so just copy and paste it) Kosmi is great and I love it because it allows for so many different ways of streaming: from a video hosting website URL like Youtube or Vimeo, by screen sharing for things like Netflix, or form a file on the host’s computer. The only thing with Kosmi is that unless you have an account it will say ‘Anonymous [insert animal name]’ and you can’t edit what name appears so to help avoid confusion in the chat it would be awesome if you could make an account, it’s quick and free, so that you’ll have a username in the chat. But you do not have to take part in the chat to watch with us! You can just sit and lurk if you’d like, there’s no pressure to talk in the text chat.

[emptymasks]

Hi I’m Damien and I make things!

You can support me through by buying from my Etsy Shop and commissioning me on and donating to my Ko-Fi. 

My carrd with all my info and links: https://emptymasks.carrd.co/

Please use tone tags when typing to me (asks, comments, replies, etc), I struggle a lot to with tone and taking things literally, especially with jokes.

Projects I’m currently working on:

Etsy: I have been running an Etsy shop ‘emptymasks’ since 2017 where I sell fanart and am trying to get into making and selling more original art.

Monster Boy Band: A group of characters I’m developing who are classic horror monsters but now they’re humans in a rock band together. I’ve got ideas to put them in a visual novel dating sim game, comics, merch, and maybe some sort of pixel art game... Also I do crossover art for it with @geickogarbage​ and her Punk Erik from her Phantom of the Opera Punk AU under #poto band au

Phantom OCs: Just myself and a group of others on Tumblr, Instagram and Discord have made Phantom of the Opera ocs who interact with each other. Mine are Armand Dubois (a costume designer) and Ilya Kapnios (principal ballerino). I don’t post their story in any particular order, but you can see things under ‘#poto oc’ ‘#poto ocs’ on Tumblr and #potoocs #potooc on Instagram.

Short Comics: Any other short one-post long comics I’ve worked on.

@dervampireprince: 18+ only (dni on that blog if you don’t have your real 18+ age listed in your bio), over there I do writing and voice acting of fandom characters and original characters (which I do art for over there). I’ve been less active on this blog because I’ve been putting more time and energy into this one. I have a Youtube channel where I post my ASMR voice acting and I also stream on Twitch under this name as a vtuber playing games, drawing, and more.

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emptymasks’ musical streams calendar & info post part 1 | part 2 (old/finished)

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[emptymasks]

The Phantom of the Opera is there... inside Friday Night Funkin' | Custom Character Mod

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thank you to @staminaoverlook for introducing me to this game! i have fallen in love with it and bought the soundtrack and i’d recommend it to everyone! or if you don’t want to play maybe at least check out my animation. or maybe even download my erik and you can battle him yourself!

for those not familiar, Friday Night Funkin’ is a free-to-play rhythm game for pc/mac that a lot of people have been making mods for - in the form of custom songs, fully redrawn assets, and/or drawing and animating new characters based on the spirte sheet in the assets folder. and so or course i’m always thinking about phantom and it’s a video game about music... and this happened

and i didn't even realise how fitting the background of this stage was until i was finished. took about 5 hours and it was very spontaneous but i'm pretty proud that i finished a project. though now i want to do more musical characters for the other bosses... but this is my first time doing a custom character/mod for anything ever and i was nervous that i would somehow break the game, but i didn't! also my first time animating something that isn't rotoscoping. so i know it's janky in some places, but for a first attempt i don't think it's too bad 

if you want to download him all i ask is that if you use him in any videos/streams/posts that you credit me @emptymasks in the description and in the video itself: gamebanana.com/skins/192246