Moving to paradise Rich theater with humor and music! with Marianne Blum, Marijn Seiffert, Gilbert Millich
Pandora is dead. But that doesn't mean she'll shut up. It'll come to that! After all, she knows exactly what's in her box: whoever opens it will bring disaster into the world.
Her daughter Eva suspects that she is to blame, while her father believes he is the victim of history and her boyfriend measures reality in stock market prices.
What are we supposed to do here? Why don't we do better? Where do we go after that, is there paradise there and is there at least a rent control?
Marianne Blum's new play poses the all-important questions and plays with the answers in the form of a turbulent family story - seen from the perspective of the deceased mother.
Seen from death, life is ultimately a joke, especially what Pandora's daughter Eva and her boyfriend are upset about. At the same time, without death, life is meaningless and Eva's attempt to bribe the gods with heavenly music to get her mother back is as futile as it is tragicomic. At the opening of Pandora's Inheritance, it becomes clear that the other family members in particular are less interested in eternal life than in riches.
Rich theater with wit and music!
Experience two young artists as congenial stage partners of the established singer and actress Marianne Blum, who will be heard and seen a lot more: the violinist Marijn Seiffert and the trombonist Gilbert Millich. In "Zu guter Jetzt", the two not only shine as fantastic instrumentalists, but also as talented actors and singers. They also inspire with furious choreography, which allows Marijn Seiffert in particular to show off her dancing skills.
With this piece, Marianne Blum delivers a new sample of her humorous work. In it, she manages the feat of telling a surprising story with the help of light-footed dialogs full of wordplay, in which the trio's wide-ranging music, interpreted in an unusual but always excellent way, is part of and fuel for the plot.
In "Zu guter Jetzt", a modern version of the "Orpheus and Eurydice" story is negotiated, combined with the Pandora myth and a pinch of Adam and Eve. These three ancient legends relate to each other historically, belong together in terms of content and touch on core themes that are timelessly topical: When we experience really serious life changes, does art help? Why do we only appreciate so many things when we have lost them? Why should women be to blame for everything and why is this nonsense still told today?
Idea, concept, book: Marianne Blum
Performers: Marianne Blum, Marijn Seiffert, Gilbert Millich
Directed by:Peter Gestwa (Theater Putbus/ Rügen)
Choreography: Marijn Seiffert
Techno beats:Helena Blum
Agency:SAM Entertainment www.samentertainment.de
Marianne Blum
Born in Lich and raised in Giessen (Central Hesse), IANNE BLUM, the daughter of a composer, learned to play various instruments at home. She went on to study music (singing and guitar), then rhetoric with Walter Jens and Gert Ueding in Tübingen. During this time, she was already playing theater and giving concerts. In 2000, she brought out her first own production. Thanks to her pleasant, versatile voice, her excellent talent for writing comic dialog and her acting skills, she remained true to her already successful mixture of wonderfully sung songs of all genres and staged cabaret. Since then, the freelance artist has written over 20 stage programs and brought them to the theaters of Germany. She has also worked for colleagues in the industry, invented the innovative cabaret dinner show series "Gernsehen & Abendessen" and directed it for seven years, and released an album of her own songs. Marianne Blum lives in Berlin and can be seen throughout Germany.
Marijn Seiffert
MARIJN SEIFFERT was born and grew up in Berlin. In addition to her violin training, she took dance lessons from an early age, including tap, ballet, modern and jazz dance in Berlin and New York. She was a junior student at the Hanns Eisler School of Music before studying violin at the Berlin University of the Arts and was an academy member of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin from 2018-2020. She has been 1st concertmaster in the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Vorpommern Theatre since 2022. She performs as a soloist and in various constellations in which, in addition to her virtuosity on the violin, she also inspires with her dancing skills, including together with Gilbert Millich as the duo "MaibiShow". The collaboration with Marianne Blum adds the facet of acting to this extraordinary portfolio. Marijn Seiffert lives and works in Stralsund and Berlin.
Gilbert Millich
Gilbert Millich was born in a village near Pécs, Hungary, where he also grew up. He was a junior student at the "Pécsi Művészeti" music conservatory in Pécs before later studying bass trombone at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. His first permanent position as solo bass trombonist was at the Coburg State Theater (2013 to 2016). He then moved to the north: first to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Theater Schwerin, then to the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Vorpommern Theater, where he has had a permanent engagement since 2021. In addition to his trombone training, he received singing lessons at an early age and regularly appeared on stage at a young age with a wide variety of programs and constellations. Together with Marijn Seiffert, he is part of the duo "MaibiShow". The two have been working together with Marianne Blum since 2025. Gilbert Millich also lives in Stralsund and Berlin.
Peter Gestwa
Director of Theater Putbus auf Rügen, has been working with Marianne Blum since 2016 and directs all of her productions.
