Tokio Hotel singer
Bill Kaulitz fulfills his musical dream in Hamburg
Tokio Hotel singer Bill Kaulitz is a big musical fan. Even as a little boy he wanted to play, but he wasn’t accepted. In Hamburg he was now on stage with “& Julia”.
Tokio Hotel singer Bill Kaulitz (35) knows the big stages of the world, only one was never really opened to him: the musical stage. He would like to take on a guest role in a musical – and has now had a bit of an idea for that in Hamburg. He would be “really keen” on a guest role in a musical, he told the DPA on the sidelines of rehearsals for the new Hamburg musical “& Julia”.
“Musical is really my big dream. I actually always wanted to do it. As a little boy I often applied and was never actually invited to the casting.” Things are different now. He has already received an offer for next year, but unfortunately he won’t be able to do it in time. “I think it’ll happen again at some point. I don’t have the time right now, but I’d really like to do it.”
Bill Kaulitz: “It’s really like coming home”
In Hamburg, Bill Kaulitz was at least able to get a taste of musicals. At the Stage-Operettenhaus on the Reeperbahn he was on stage with the cast of the new musical “& Julia” for two scenes.
In one of them he played as a DJ, in a second he had Julia fly through the air on a chandelier. A performance that he enjoyed a lot. “It’s really like coming home. It doesn’t feel that different. Just like with my band. In principle, I don’t do anything different.”
Bill Kaulitz is taken: A look back at the lives of the twins
It’s a place where Bill and Tom Kaulitz have more than just good memories: Loitsche near Magdeburg. The identical twins grew up with their mother Simone. The parents were actually already separated when they were conceived, Bill Kaulitz wrote a few years ago in his autobiography “Career Suicide – My First Thirty Years.” Loitsche, the place of his youth, described Kaulitz in his book as “600 uninspired souls, absolute sadness.” The Kaulitz twins found a way out of their sadness in music, which their stepfather introduced them to. They got their first music contract when they were just 13 years old
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The Broadway musical “& Juliet” begins shortly before the end of “Romeo & Juliet”: after Romeo’s death. The difference: Julia chooses life. The musical wants to answer what life that would have been – with hits from Britney Spears, Katy Perry and the Backstreet Boys, among others. The musical celebrates its German premiere on Wednesday in Hamburg.
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Source: Stern
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