He's got it, performance

SOUND & ASSISTANCE Anastasia Mandel
VOCAL TRAINING Annette Goldbeck-Löwe
CORREPETITON Matthias Klünder

He’s Got It is a performance that interrogates creation myths and narratives of genius and talent in the arts, with a focus on musical theatre and its affect economy. Drawing on the works of Stephen Sondheim and Howard Ashman, the performance delves into queer realities, the AIDS crisis, and living with HIV. Musical singing techniques serve as both a physical practice and a tool to deconstruct the ideal of authenticity,  by blurring the boundaries between performance and storytelling, He’s Got It challenges traditional notions of embodied expression and the cultural expectations of sincerity in artistic production.

I thought you did it for me, Daddy
I thought you did it for me, Daddy….

I though you made a no talent into a star because you liked doing things the hard way, Daddy.
And you haven’t got any talent.
Not what I call talent.
Talent for the the class, style and tasteless, maybe.
Not an ounce of it, Mister Mediocre.

"If I hate anything more than children, it's chrildren on stage"
You left me in the the middle of a sentence.
You were always in the middle of a sentence.

I made you, and you want to know why?
You know what i did it for?
I was looking for love and this is what I got.

With what I got in me I could have been better than any of you.
What I got in me, what I’ve been holding down inside of me...

Oh, if i ever let it out!
There wouldn’t be signs big enough!
There wouldn’t be lights bright enough!

I thought you did it for me, Daddy
I thought you did it for me, Daddy….

I though you made a no talent into a star because you liked doing things the hard way, Daddy.
And you haven’t got any talent.
Not what I call talent.
Talent for the the class, style and tasteless, maybe.
Not an ounce of it, Mister Mediocre.

"If I hate anything more than children, it's chrildren on stage"
You left me in the the middle of a sentence.
You were always in the middle of a sentence.

I made you, and you want to know why?
You know what i did it for?
I was looking for love and this is what I got.

With what I got in me I could have been better than any of you.
What I got in me, what I’ve been holding down inside of me...

Oh, if i ever let it out!
There wouldn’t be signs big enough!
There wouldn’t be lights bright enough!