Holmes, The Legend

Karlin Musical Theater, Karlin Musical Theater Big Scene, Prague, Czech Republic

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Important Info

Type: Musical

City: Prague, Czech Republic

Starts at: 19:00

Acts: 2

Intervals: 1

Duration: 2h 55min

Sung in: Czech

Titles in: English

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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Overview

More or less fictional story of the musical is based on fame of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and the twists and turns of his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

More or less fictional story of the musical is based on fame of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and the twists and turns of his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle under pressure of media, society and foremost of his publisher Virgil Cromwell is becoming jealous of his fictional character. The only solution how to set himself free he sees in the death of his most famous literary hero. But even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle does not know yet how this humorous story full of brilliant music would turn out.

Sure, in actual outline Arthur Conan Doyle was able to get rid of Sherlock Holmes for certain period of time when he had let him drown in the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls in his novel Last Case. However, motive was not that extreme as I took the liberty to suggest in my musical – although with my deepest respect to Doyle's legacy. Several characters have real base such as Louisa Hawkins, who was in real life a common-law wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Also Doctor Sigmund Freud was a real person but no reference exists that these two gentlemen ever met although they lived in the same period of time. The only purely fictional character is Doyle's publisher Virgil Cromwell, but without him the musical would lack the dramatic plot. So please take this twist as a humorous hyperbole and artistic license: it is not description of a real historical event.

Even the character of Sherlock Holmes is not always "according to the book". To make the action more refreshing he acts sometimes out of line in order to please the viewer.

The main goal is to make the viewer laugh, maybe enlighten him, but most of all to entertain him royally.

History

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard.

Venue Info

Karlin Musical Theater - Prague
Křižíkova 10

The Musical Theatre Karlín is a theatre in the Karlín district of Prague devoted largely to the performance of operettas and musical theatre. Built in 1881, it is now the second largest theatre in Prague after the Prague State Opera.

The Karlin Theatre was founded by the excentric entrepreneur Eduard Tichý.

The baroque-revival building was built in 1881 with table arrangement and was originally designed for circus and later variety shows. With the legendary Karel Hašler – composer of more than 300 popular songs – cabaret came to the theatre after the First World War and the venue also hosted several theatrical groups from newly formed Czechoslovakia including the National Theatre from Bratislava. The table arrangement was replaced with regular theatre seats in rows in 1932. During the Second World War the Karlin Theatre gave shelter to the Prague´s National Theatre which was closed by Nazis.

Operetta "The Vagabond King" by Rudolf Friml was the first show after the end of war. This show started the era of repertory theatre which changed its name several times due to the political changes in the country: Theatre in Karlin, Operetta in Karlin and after the communist takeover in 1948 also Theatre of people´s art.

For the short period of time the theatre was headed by the legendary Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec who staged here – very first in Europe – American musical "Finian´s Rainbow", only year after its world premiere on Broadway.

In 1950 the theatre became a property of the City of Prague, in 1954 took over the government and in 1961 the theatre was returned to the City of Prague under the current name the Karlin Musical Theatre and stayed in its ownership till today.

In years 1963 - 1978 the Karlin Musical Theatre got second venue the Nusle Musical Theatre - which is now known as privately owned Fidlovačka Theatre. In 1981 second small venue was built right in the building and very popular small theatrical group Semafor played there till 1990. This small theatre was later renamed Karlínek (Little Karlin) and both venues were working side by side till August 2002, when destructive flooding nearly destroyed the building.

October 12, 2006 – after four years the Karlin Musical Theatre was re-open with a Czech premiere of the most successful Broadway musical of all time – 12 TONY Awards – "The Producers".

Since then the Karlin Musical Theatre successfully staged several operettas and many world known musicals.