Horse musical
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Horse musicals are musicals in which horses are the stars.
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[edit] How it all started
In 1995 at the horse trade show Pferd Zurich ("Zurich Horse")the name "horse musical" - Pferdemusical in German - was created by the organizers, among them Dieter Speidel from Avenches.
[edit] Le Prince
In the following years Dieter Speidel has produced other horse musicals, such as Le Prince, a play that tells the story of the legend of Louis Henri de Bourbon, the 7th Prince de Condé (Chantilly 1692 - 1740) who believed he would be reincarnated as a horse. He therefore told architecte Jean Marc Aubert to build the Grandes Écuries in Chantilly near Paris. This was a huge castle-like stables which had room for more than 300 horses. The Prince was able to see the stables when he had breakfast on the balcony of his water castle in Chantilly.
The horsemusical Le Prince (music composed by Mike Turtle, London & Basel) first played in 2001 at the world's largest horse fair, Equitana in Essen, Germany and then played almost 100 times in Germany, Switzerland and France.
[edit] Other Activities
Since then Dieter Speidel produced other horsemusicals such as The Horse Prince Dinner Theater of which a trailer is nominated to the 2006 Epona film festival in Cabourg, Francea festival organized by Cheval Français.
Speidel has since opened Il Téâtro Équestre which is his production company for horsemusicals in Zug, Switzerland and produces horsemusicals in Avenches at the Institut Équestre National Avenches. Some of these are: Le Pardon, La Légende de la Licorne, Cheval Fiesta and in Berne at BEA, the reprise of Le Prince in April 2007. The horsemusical "Le Prince" will play after BEA/PFERD (www.beapferd.ch) Bern , and at the end of August 2007 at GEHLA fair in CHUR and at the first LUXURY & HORSE FAIRS in ZURICH and GENEVA, Switzerland.
Speidel's company - Horse Park Event Holding SA in Zug, Switzerland, is in search of partners for the Family Horse Park projects in Europe, the US, the Arab Emirates and Asia. Together with Virginie Bernhard, Speidel has founded the Family Horse Parks idea. Family Horse Park is a project of Pferde Park Event Holding AG, Zug.
Together with co-producers, Speidel is about to produce Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" as a horsemusal. They start playing in 2008 in the roman Arena in Avenches. (www.horsemusical.com)
The first Family Horse Park is opening in Switzerland. There is a strong demand from other countries, such as the USA, Germany and the Middle East (Emirates) for the FAMILY HORSE PARK concept of Pferde Park Event Holding AG, Switzerland. The first park will represent 26 different horse breeds, among them Arabian horses, Appaloosas, American Quarter Horses, Andalusian Horses, Barbs, Criollos, Danish Warmblood, English Thoroughbreds, Frisians, Holstein, Islanders, Mangalardas, Mongolian horses, Marwaris, Lusitanos, Lipizzans, Pasos, Oldenburger, and many more. The business plan of the Family Horse Park is now available to interested parties.
