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The literary basis of the musical, the novel by Daniel Keyes, is a defining reading experience of many of our adolescence. The book has been translated into 27 languages, has sold over five million copies and was made into an Oscar-winning film. The story is about the perseverance and love-starved thirty-two-year-old Charlie Gordon. He is at the intellectual level of a six-year-old child, but he is determined to be 'clever' too, so he takes part in an experiment with a group of doctors. Charlie undergoes an operation that increases his intelligence quotient, teaches him several languages, makes him an expert in different disciplines and even outstrips the doctors who developed the procedure in analysing their own research programme. But the experiment with Charlie Gordon raises a very tough question: when and how far is it OK to go in an experiment with a human being? To what extent should we consider a partner with a lower IQ to be a full human being, and to what extent are we responsible for what happens to him or her? This story is a recipe for survival, a tale of how we can do things we never thought possible.
Budapest Operetta & Musical Theatre
The institution is a two-tiered, true musical folk theatre, which stages Hungarian operettas and their contemporary successors, contemporary Hungarian musicals, along with several literary-historical musicals for youth. It plays around 500 performances a year to nearly 400,000 spectators, making it one of Hungary's most visited theatres today.
It is recognised worldwide as the only operetta sung and performed by Hungarians, with its dynamic music, passion, fire, acrobatic dancing, rich visuals and stunning sensory-emotional storms. When the Budapest Operetta Theatre premiered The Queen of the Cards in Germany, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "There are many places in many cities where you can listen to good music. There is only one sure address for the operetta: Budapest, Nagymező utca 17."
The company tours regularly abroad, having performed operettas, musicals and gala performances in countries from Europe to Asia. In the autumn of 2011, the Budapest Operetta Theatre won the exclusive German-language rights to perform Beauty and the Beast, a musical based on one of the world's most beautiful fairy tales, in a close international competition. The Superbrands and MagyarBrands award-winning institution regularly organises prestigious international music competitions.
