Mein Freund Bunbury - Musical

A musical freely adapted from Oscar Wilde's comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest" ("Bunbury") by Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt | Music by Gerd Natschinski
performed by Landesbühnen Sachsen

Does friend Bunbury actually exist? A tantalizing question! But one thing is certain: "Bunburying" is alive and well! In this witty social comedy, almost no one is who they appear to be - many lead double lives for money or advancement. Leading the pack is the servant Jeremias, who invents a brother so he can collect double wages from two employers.

Jack and his ward Cecily are not simply devoted to the Salvation Army either - both have ambitions: Cecily wants to become a singer, while Jack hopes to marry into old money. That Jack has no need for any of this, he only discovers at the very end: he too is of noble blood, and his friend Algernon turns out to be his brother - a successful crime novelist who, as it happens, doesn't write his own books.

First performed in 1964 at the Metropoltheater in Berlin, the show became the most successful East German musical of its era and launched composer Gerd Natschinski onto the international stage.

Tunes like "Black Bottom", "Mein Freund Bunbury ist mein bestes Alibi" and "So wie du sah der Mann meiner heimlichen Träume aus" remain irresistible earworms that guarantee a thoroughly entertaining evening.

Subject to change!
Supported by Kulturraum Meißen - Sächsische Schweiz - Osterzgebirge