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American
​Psycho

Offizielle deutsche Übersetzung
im Auftrag von Concord Theatricals


​2022

American
​Psycho

Musical
von Duncan Sheik &
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
(2013)

Offizielle deutsche Übersetzung
im Auftrag von Concord Theatricals

​2022
​
Offizielle deutsche Übersetzung des Musicals von Duncan Sheik und Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa nach dem Kultroman von Bret Easton Ellis.

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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel

Über das
​Stück

Musik & Liedtexte
Duncan Sheik

Buch
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Uraufführung
​
12. Dezember 2013
Almeida Theatre
London

Broadway-Premiere
21. April 2016
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
New York


"American Psycho" ist ein rücksichtsloses und gewagtes neues Musical von Duncan Sheik ("Spring Awakening") und Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ("Riverdale", "The Muckle Man", "The Picture Of Dorian Grey").

​Basierend auf dem elektrisierenden Roman von Bret Easton Ellis erzählt das Musical die Geschichte von Patrick Bateman, einem jungen und gutaussehenden Wall-Street-Banker mit tadellosem Geschmack und unstillbaren Sehnsüchten. Patrick und seine elitäre Gruppe von Freunden verbringen ihre Tage in schicken Restaurants, exklusiven Clubs und Designer-Labels. Doch nachts nimmt Patrick an einem dunkleren Verwöhnprogramm teil, und seine Maske der Vernunft beginnt zu verrutschen...

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Concord Theatricals


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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel

Songs

Musikalische Nummern
​1. Akt
​
Opening (Morning Routine)
Patrick Bateman

Selling Out
Patrick & Company

Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Jean & Company

Cards
Paul Owen, Patrick, Timothy Price, David Van Patten, Craig McDermott & Luis Carruthers

You Are What You Wear
Evelyn Williams, Courtney Lawrence & Women

True Faith
Vanden & Company

Killing Time
Patrick & Price

In The Air Tonight
Women Soloists & Company

Hardbody
Hardbody Trainer, McDermott, Van Patten, Carruthers & Men

You Are What You Wear (Reprise)
Evelyn, Courtney & Women
​
If We Get Married
Evelyn, Patrick & Jean

Not A Common Man
Patrick

Mistletoe Alert
Evelyn, Patrick & Company

Hip To Be Square
Patrick & Paul

​
2. Akt
Killing Spree
Patrick

Nice Thought
Mrs. Bateman, Jean & Women

At The End Of An Island
Evelyn, Bateman & Company

I Am Back
Patrick & Company

You Are What You Wear (Reprise)
Evelyn, Courtney & Women

A Girl Before
Jean

Clean
Company

Don't You Want Me
Paul, Sean Bateman, Carruthers & Company

This Is Not An Exit
Patrick & Company
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel

Awards & Nominierungen

2016 Outer Critics Circle Award
​
Outstanding New Broadway Musical 
(Nominierung)


Outstanding New Score (Broadway or off-Broadway)
Duncan Sheik
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Rupert Goold
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Benjamin Walker
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Heléne Yorke
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical)
Katrina Lindsay
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical)
Justin Townsend
 (Gewinner)

Outstanding Projection Design (Play or Musical)
​Finn Ross
 (Gewinner)

​
2016 Tony Award
​
Best Scenic Design in a Musical
Es Devlin and Finn Ross
 (Nominierung)

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Justin Townsend
 (Nominierung)

​
2016 Drama Desk Award
​
Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Benjamin Walker
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Rupert Goold
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Choreography
Lynne Page
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical
Es Devlin
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical
Katrina Lindsay
 (Nominierung)

Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical
Justin Townsend
 (Gewinner)

Outstanding Projection Design
Finn Ross
 (Gewinner)

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical
Dan Moses Schreier
 (Gewinner)

​
2016 Drama League Award
​
Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical
(Nominierung)

Distinguished Performance Award
Benjamin Walker
 (Nominierung)
​

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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel

Presse-stimmen

Mark Kennedy
​
The Washington Times
21. April 2016
​
"The gloriously gory, sleek, over-the-top musical that opened Thursday at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is a darkly wonderful adaptation of the once-controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis.

It centers on an investment banker and not-so-secret serial killer obsessed with high-end clothes and beauty products who slashes his way through yuppie 1989 Manhattan, a city he both loathes and yet is obsessed with conquering. [...]

There must be many ways to portray serial murder onstage but the creators haven’t held back. Credit story writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, songwriter Duncan Sheik and director Rupert Goold for going whole hog.

Graphic sex acts, torturing, stabbing, slashing, axe-wielding, snorting coke off toilets, unsexy orgies and bones cracking are just part of the horrors. [...] 

Aguirre-Sacasa’s story stays true to the novel but he has fun both looking back at 1989 - Bateman boasts of having a then top-of-the-line Walkman and a 30-inch TV - with forward-looking jokes that goof on Tom Cruise and Donald Trump. Things take a more surreal turn in the stronger Act 2 as we are left to ponder if these murders are just a figment of Bateman’s imagination.

Sheik’s electronic- and choral-based score is marvelously varied, from the touching duet 'Nice Thought' to the dance-pop of 'You Are What You Wear,' a clever tune about high fashion that rhymes Giorgio Armani with Norma Kamali. 'Selling Out,' the musical’s standout track, is infectious. Sheik has also been true to the book by including songs of the era, including 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' by Tears for Fears and Phil Collins' 'In the Air Tonight' - but changing their orchestration so they sound fresh. Listening to Huey Lewis’ 'Hip to Be Square' after this may never be light fun again. [...]

The timing of 'American Psycho' must surely be helped by the fact that this tale of yuppies obsessively eating charred mahi mahi and summering in the Hamptons comes during a new wave of disgust at Wall Street excess. It’s raining their blood on Broadway. Come, but bring an umbrella."
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel

Presse-stimmen

Marilyn Stasio
Variety
​
21. April 2016
​
"This high-concept show opens on a note of sheer anxiety in 'Morning Routine,' with a chorus of robotic Wall Streeters marching off to work on two fast-moving revolves. This supple and well-dressed (by Katrina Lindsay) army is oblivious to the visual barrage of black-and-white patterns splattered on Es Devlin’s cubistic set, but the audience is properly disoriented by Finn Ross’ extraordinary projections.

From this cacophony of sound (by Dan Moses Schreier) and light (by Justin Townsend) and absence of color emerges Patrick Bateman (Benjamin Walker), rising from a tanning bed in his tighty-whities and Wayfarer sunglasses like Adonis on the Half-Shell. [...]

Aguirre-Sacasa’s book and Sheik’s lyrics savor the author’s satiric intent, and Walker nails the character’s mannerisms with a disdainful tone that both respects and mocks his pretensions. [...]

Overall, the music is a super-smart mix of Sheik’s original songs with ’80s classics (like 'In the Air Tonight' from Phil Collins’ aptly named album 'Face Value') that match up with the show’s emphasis on the superficial, materialistic pursuits of the era. The guys are power-mad and money-crazy ('Everybody Wants to Rule the World') and the girls wear shoulder pads and find power wherever they can ('You Are What You Wear').

A series of imaginatively staged scenes — having lunch with the guys in an upscale restaurant, enduring his disastrous 27th birthday party, screwing his girlfriend’s best friend, doing lines of coke at Tunnel — start Patrick on his downward spiral into the homicidal madness that Ellis used to satirize the desperate selfishness and greed of the materialistic Reagan era. But the closest Patrick comes to self-awareness is when he says: 'The world’s going insane and our bodies have somehow become attuned to the insanity. It’s starting to make sense.'"
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel

Presse-stimmen

Diverse
​
"So smooth, so rich, so ruthless. A carnal carnival of song and dance."
The New York Times

"American Psycho slays onstage! Wonderful! Graphic sex acts, torturing, stabbing, slashing, axe-wielding, snorting coke off toilets and a marvelous score."
Associated Press

"A hyper-stylish, dazzling and slick splatter musical."
Newsday

"A stylish feast with excellent songs and terrific choreography. American psycho sounds and looks beautiful."
The Daily Mirror

"Confirms the mythic power of Easton Ellis’s story and leaves us all dangerously entertained."
The Guardian

"Smart and sharp with an excellent score from the Grammy®-winning composer of Spring Awakening."
The Telegraph

"Brilliant and absorbing. A stylish shocker."
The Evening Standard

"This stunning high-concept musical [...] is one of the most original in recent years: creepy, beautiful, reverberative, hollow, sleek and disturbing."
Whatsonstage


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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel
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"American Psycho" | Original Broadway Cast | Photo © Jeremy Daniel

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