Ku'damm 56 – The Musical Tickets

Alte Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Important Info

Type: Musical

City: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Duration: 2h 40min with 1 interval

Intervals: 1

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

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Overview

The rousing musical is based on the ZDF hit series.

It's 1956 and the scent of new beginnings fills the Berlin air. Between the economic miracle and a spirit of optimism, the longing for self-determination collides with the desire for security and prosperity. With rock 'n' roll, jeans, and petticoats, the young people on the Ku'damm are rebelling against oppressive role models, conservative values, and stuffy ideas about life. After the audience in Berlin's Theater des Westens "Ku'damm 56 - The Musical" celebrated so euphorically that it was twice over time, the play can now be experienced for selected guest performances outside of the capital. A passionate dance of liberation about free, first, and late love that sweeps and moves.

The ZDF three-part series "Ku'damm 56" fascinated millions of viewers with the story of the single mother who owned the dance school, Caterina Schöllack, and her three daughters. Together with the successful songwriting duo Peter Plate and Ulf Leo Sommer (Rosenstolz, Max Raabe, Sarah Connor), the author and multiple Grimme award winner Annette Hess have created a gripping stage adaptation that tells the fate of Ku'damm with a completely new intensity. It will be funny, tragic, and passionate: “Ku'damm 56 – The Musical” captivates the audience with breathtaking dance scenes, highly emotional moments, and rousing songs. In 2022, the play was rewarded with the 'Best Musical' award at the German Musical Theater Prize.

Venue Info

Alte Oper Frankfurt - Frankfurt am Main
Opernplatz 1

The original opera house in Frankfurt is now the Alte Oper (Old Opera), a concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was inaugurated in 1880 but destroyed by bombs in 1944. It was rebuilt, slowly, in the 1970s, opening again in 1981. Many important operas were performed for the first time in Frankfurt, including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in 1937.

The square in front of the building is known as Opernplatz (Opera Square). The Alte Oper is located in the inner city district, Innenstadt, within the banking district Bankenviertel.

The Oper Frankfurt now plays in the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, completed in 1951, which it shares with the Schauspiel Frankfurt theatre company.

The building was designed by the Berlin architect Richard Lucae, financed by the citizens of Frankfurt and built by Philipp Holzmann. Construction began in 1873. It opened on October 20, 1880.

The Alte Oper was almost completely destroyed by bombs during World War II in 1944 (only some of the outside walls and façades survived). In the 1960s the city magistrate planned to build a modern office building on the site. The then Minister of Economy in Hessen Rudi Arndt, earned the nickname "Dynamit-Rudi" (Dynamite Rudi) when he proposed to blow up "Germany's most beautiful ruin" with "a little dynamite". Arndt later said that this was not meant seriously.

A citizen's initiative campaigned for reconstruction funds after 1953 and collected 15 million DM. It ended costing c. DM160, and the building was reopened on August 28, 1981, to the sounds of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, the "Symphony of a Thousand". A live recording of that concert conducted by Michael Gielen is available on CD.