Swiss premiere of Waits' "Alice"
Music students from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU-M) and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) are staging the Tom Waits musical "Alice" at Lucerne Theater.
The musical is based on the world bestseller "Alice in Wonderland" and the biography of the author Lewis Carroll, whose story describes a journey into surreal worlds that is still fascinating today. Often misunderstood as children's characters, the figures in the novel - the White Rabbit, the Chess Queen and Humpty Dumpty - are disturbing inhabitants of an absurd dreamland through which the protagonist wanders in search of meaning in nonsense.
The composer himself calls this trip "An odyssey in dream and nonsense", for which he invented a Waits-typical mixture of melancholy jazz ballads and rough rhythms. The Swiss premiere is on March 28 at 7.30 pm at Theater Luzern.
Further performances: 5.4., 14.4., 18.4., 20.4., 22.4., 26.4., 19.5., 6.6. and 16.6.2013
