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OUTDOORS MUSICAL - HEIDI

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From: Music Clubs Magazine
Date: 20050101
Author:Anonymous

Beginning on July 23, 2005, on a lake shore near Walenstadt, Switzerland, a group of London and Swiss producers using the Alps as a back drop and a revolving stage to allow scenes from a Frankfort home, staged a new outdoors musical based on the tale by Johanna Spyri of the orphan Heidi. The print version of Spyri's story became a world best seller - over 50 million copies.

The producers went back to the story's roots in order to have an authentic show. Traditional Swiss folk instruments including spoons, horns and a Swiss accordion called a "Schweizer Oergeli" were used to accompany the ...

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