Prinzen singer Tobias Künzel (60) has returned to his love of musicals and written a new play together with his British co-author Mark Underwood. "Death On The Throne - The Loosical" will first celebrate its premiere in London at the end of March, before being performed as the German version "Tod auf dem Thron - Das Klosical" in Halle in June. It is Künzel's sixth musical.
The musician explained that his fascination for the genre was awakened early on. "I sang in the St. Thomas Boys' Choir as a child and was familiar with the works of the Passion story, for example Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John and St. Matthew Passions. But suddenly "Jesus Christ Superstar" appeared on the scene, a rock opera that dealt with the same theme but using rock music. That fascinated me so much that I knew I wanted to write something like it."
