My Friend Bunbury - Musical

A musical freely inspired by Oscar Wilde's comedy "Bunbury" by Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt, with music by Gerd Natschinski - performed by Landesbühnen Sachsen.

Does the friend Bunbury really exist or not? In any case, "Bunburying" does: in this "social comedy" almost no one is what they seem, because many lead - for money or success - a double life. Leading the charge is the servant Jeremiah, who invents a brother to earn double wages from two employers. Jack and his ward Cecily also serve more than just the Salvation Army: Cecily wants to become a singer, Jack dreams of marrying into old "moneyed" aristocracy. That he doesn't need this at all, he only discovers at the very end - because he too is of blue blood, and his friend Algernon is actually his brother, a crime novelist who doesn't write his own novels.

First performed in 1964 at the Berlin Metropol Theatre, it became the most successful East German musical of its era and brought composer Gerd Natschinski international acclaim. Melodies like "Black Bottom", "My Friend Bunbury Is My Best Alibi" and "He Looked Just Like the Man of My Secret Dreams" remain earworms to this day.

Supported by Kulturraum Meißen - Sächsische Schweiz - Osterzgebirge.