In the organizer's words:

Celebrated world premiere in March 2025 on Broadway in New York

Late evening 1988, the "Blue Bar" in the legendary Hotel Sacher in Vienna: this is where two of the world's greatest conductors of the 20th century meet - Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein. Karajan has come to Vienna for one of his last performances. And there, by chance, he meets one of his greatest antipodes, Bernstein. This is exactly how it really happened. An intense, sometimes combative, passionate and always inspiring exchange begins. The greats of music history philosophize about music, about art, about their competition and their great differences. All discreetly observed by a waiter who serves the two artists throughout the evening. He can only guess what the two men are discussing.

But more than 30 years later, that same waiter served the American playwright Peter Danish in the "Blue Bar", who was there to immerse himself in the collected letters of Leonard Bernstein. The waiter then recounts the chance encounter between the two artists, which moved and impressed him greatly at the time. Danish was immediately electrified. That very evening, the draft for his chamber play "Last Call" was written in the bar, which was recently premiered to great acclaim in New York.

By Peter Danish
German by Gil Mehmert

Director: Gil Mehmert
Stage: Chris Barreca
Costumes: René Neumann

With Victor Petersen, Helen Schneider, Lucca Züchner

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