New Elisabeth Tour 2014-15

So, this appeared on the internet a couple of days ago:

The musical "Elisabeth" by Sylvester Levay (music) and Michael Kunze (libretto and lyrics) is expected to tour in Germany again in autumn 2014. This emerges after an audition call from the production company La Belle. The auditions take place in February in Berlin and in March in Vienna.  According to the casting call, the tour should last until at least June 2015. The exact dates and tour locations are not yet known.

-translated from thatsMusical

This was posted on the sixth of this month and I have been trying to get onto the website of La Belle since, to see if there's any more information. It refused to load - I assume there's been too many people trying to view the site and that this has caused problems. Anyway, I just managed and this is what they have to say:

A La Belle touring production, directed by Harry Kupfer and choreographed by Dennis Callahan.

By Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay

Audition

on Monday 24.02.2014 in 12161 Berlin

on Monday 10.03.2014 in 1010 Vienna

Elisabeth (Empress of Austria)
Aged 25-40 years, strong personality with exceptional musical and acting skills.

Belt/Soprano with ab'

Der Tod

Aged 25-40 years, charismatic, seductive, must be able to move well.

High Pop-Baritone/Tenor to b'

Luigi Lucheni

Aged 25-40 years, very good actor with excellent singing voice, high Pop-Baritone/Tenor to b'

Emperor Franz Joseph

Elisabeth's husband, very good singer, aged 25-40 years, baritone to g'

Archduchess Sophie

Elisabeth's mother-in-law, good actress with a strong singing voice, authoritarian presentation.

Aged 40-55 years, Alto/Mezzo

Crown Prince Rudolf

Elisabeth's son, fragile character, stage age of 25 years old, must be able to move very well.

Pop-tenor to b'

Duke Max

Elisabeth's father, actor with very good singing skills, age 40-60 years, Bass-Baritone (classical)

Ludovica/Frau Wolf

Elisabeth's mother/madame, accomplished actress with a strong singing voice, age 30-40, Alto/Mezzo

First-class ensemble, fully trained musical singers of all voice types (classical and rock), must be able to dance too!

Accent free German is required.

Please  prepare at least one ballad and one up-tempo number in German (from Elisabeth, if possible). Bring sheet music glued and in the correct order. And please don't forget dance clothes.

Rehearsals begin the beginning of October 2014 (Minimum contract period to June 2015)

Applications with CV and photo (preferably by email) to casting@labellemusical.de or by post to

La Belle Tournee GmbH, Hackhausen 1, 42697 Solingen

We will notify of appointment scheduling.

-translated from La Belle Musical

The above translations are a bit rushed as it's late and I've had a really long difficult day but all the same, isn't this exciting! I don't know what's meant by Elisabeth's vocal range of Ab' and I might not have translated it properly (maybe the 's' signifies sharp or something, I don't know) but my technical musical vocab is limited in English and pretty much non existent in German ;-)

It's great that Elisabeth's not going to be gone for long and it'll be exciting to see who's cast!