License:
Available for the German-language Premiere
Cast:
2 Female
5 Male
2 Female
5 Male
Music:
Band or Playbacks
POP OFF, MICHELANGELO!
The Renaissance Musical
Book
Dylan MarcAurele
Music
Dylan MarcAurele
German Lyrics
Johannes Glück
A hastily thrown-together musical by a dog owner from New York who doesn’t know shit about history, featuring killer original electropop songs packed with earworms and a plot that definitely hasn’t been fact-checked. Super funny and super sweet.
POP OFF,
MICHELANGELO!
The Renaissance Musical
Book
Dylan MarcAurele
Music
Dylan MarcAurele
German Lyrics
Johannes Glück
License:
Effective immediately:
Available for the German-language Premiere
Cast:
2 Female
5 Male
Band:
Band or Playbacks
THIRD SEX celebrated not only its German-language premiere but also its European premiere at Freie Bühne Wien during Vienna’s Pride weekend on 13 and 14 June 2026.
About the Show
"Pure fun from start to finish" West End Best Friend
“Fresh, filthy and surprisingly uplifting” The Stage
POP OFF, MICHELANGELO! is a musical comedy about Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, best friends from Florence who become bitter rivals.
Even as kids, they both realise they’re gay. They know one thing for sure: in Renaissance Italy, that can be dangerous. And they’re probably going to hell, too! Hoping to earn God’s forgiveness, Mike and Leo enrol at art school and set out to become the greatest religious painters and sculptors of all time. Their success arouses the suspicions of the fanatical gay-hunter Savonarola, who goes as far as infiltrating the darkroom at the bar Zur Harten Nudel in an attempt to prove to the Pope that the Renaissance is causing homosexuality.
Can Michelangelo make it all the way to the Vatican while exhausted, sexually frustrated and still in the closet? And does Leonardo really have to show everyone his helicopter?
A hastily thrown-together musical by a dog owner from New York who doesn’t know shit about history, featuring killer original electropop songs packed with earworms and a plot that definitely hasn’t been fact-checked. Super funny and super sweet.
Musical Adaptation
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A) Band
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B) Playbacks
POP OFF,
MICHELANGELO! The Renaissance Musical
Framing Story:
- West Berlin, courtroom, 1957
Flashbacks:
- Rural Germany (1920s)
- Weimar-era Berlin (early 1930s)
- Sachsenhausen and Flossenbürg concentration camps (1940–1945)
- Post-war Germany through the early 1980s
Time & Place
Creator
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Dylan MarcAurele
Book, Music, Lyrics
Dylan MarcAurele is a New York City-based writer and composer. His awards and professional credits include the Jonathan Larson Grant, the Richard Rodgers Award, a fellowship with the Dramatists Guild Foundation, the NAMT Festival, two Frank Young Grants, the Manhattan School of Music Musical Theatre Lab Series, Drama Club Camp, two JMF Writers Grove residencies at Goodspeed, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project in Nashville.
Book/Music/Lyrics: His works include POP OFF MICHELANGELO! (Underbelly Boulevard, London; The Other Palace; two runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), HEATED RIVALRY: THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY (The Club, Off-Broadway premiere in 2026), MEG4N (2024 tour starring Rosé from RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE), THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NYC THE MUSICAL (featured on Bravo’s WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE), and THE PASSION OF THE LABRADOODLE (currently in development).
Music: His other works include LEWIS LOVES CLARK (Rhinebeck Writers Retreat; Barn on Fire Residency; Village Theatre Festival of New Musicals, Washington), TEA WITH G (ART/NY; Theatre 555), and THE LAND OF FORGOTTEN TOYS (Greenhouse Theater, Chicago).
Music/Lyrics: His credits also include MILEY CHASE THE SCIENCE ACE (licensed by Concord Theatricals) and SAY BRAVO, performed by Andy Cohen and the cast of VANDERPUMP RULES at the Paris Theatre in Las Vegas.
He is also the creator of the musical theatre Instagram account @rhonymusical, which has 26,000 followers. He is a member of ASCAP, is represented by Michael Moore Agency, and graduated from Harvard University in 2016.
Johannes Glück
German Lyrics
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Johannes Glück is a graduate of the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (Musical Theatre), the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York City, and the Celler Schule.
He has written and continues to write books, music and lyrics for Kabarett Simpl, Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (VBW), Aida Loos and many others. His musical KRAWUTZI KAPUTZI! – STRENGSTES JUGENDVERBOT was performed more than 400 times in Vienna.
He is the author of the German-language adaptations of MY FAIR LADY (Seefestspiele Mörbisch 2024), KICK IT LIKE BECKHAM (with Nina Schneider), GANZ ODER GAR NICHT, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND and DAS PERFEKTE DESASTER DINNER.
In 2012, Johannes won ORF’s GROSSE COMEDY CHANCE with ZWA VOITROTTLN.
Most recently, he wrote the dialogue for Martin Lingnau’s new musical SKIVERLIEBT (Landestheater Salzburg / Schmidts Tivoli) and composed the music for Michael Niavarani’s comedy VENUS UND JUPITER (Globe Wien, Theater im Park), as well as the comic opera L’OFFICINA DE L’AMORE.
In 2010, Johannes directed the theatre soap JÄGERSTRASSE at Vienna’s Vindobona. In 2024, he worked as a phonetics coach on MY FAIR LADY at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch.
As musical director, his credits include GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!, DAS GREINGOLD and KRAWUTZI KAPUTZI!, as well as work with Aida Loos, Michael Niavarani and the ensemble of Kabarett Simpl.
As an actor and singer, Johannes has been performing on stages throughout the German-speaking world since 1993, in roles as diverse as Scipio in Camus’ CALIGULA, Robert Biberti in COMEDIAN HARMONISTS, Ralf in THE SOUND OF MUSIC and Papageno in DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE.
In 2004, he appeared as Larry the Pianist in the original run of GUTENBERG THE MUSICAL at the UCB Theatre in New York City.
His credits include First Schikaneder in Vereinigte Bühnen Wien’s 2015 revival of MOZART! at the Raimund Theater, directed by Harry Kupfer; pianist for the 2019/20 revue ARCHE NOAH LUXUSKLASSE at Kabarett Simpl; and, in 2024, a walk-in appearance as ALFRED P. DOOLITTLE in Mörbisch.