Curtain up for a “hit attack with Niavarani and Gernot”

Cult party with cult potential: That’s what ORF 1 and – 24 hours in advance – ORF ON promise, when New Year’s Eve will be celebrated on Monday, December 30, 2024, at 8:15 p.m. and the “Schlagerfall with Niavarani and Gernot” will be a mixture of singing, Double conferences and sketches ensure the best entertainment at the end of the year. A 90-minute television evening to sway and laugh along with Michael Niavarani, Viktor Gernot, his band “Best Friends” – Aaron Wonesch on piano, Peter Haberfellner on guitar, Thomas Faulhammer on saxophone, Thomas Strobl on bass and Wolfgang Fellinger on drums – and the three powerful vocal and acting ladies from the Simpl ensemble, Katharina Dorian, Jennifer Frankl and Ariana Schirasi-Fard.

Because when Michael Niavarani and Viktor Gernot are sitting in a coffee house, at a rehearsal or talking on the phone at night, it can happen that both of them have a sudden seizure and Gernot says “Oh, Coconut-a Woman” or Niavarani says “Come with me and stick.” “Take care of your worries” – well, sing or rather shout. On the advice of a therapist, this serious mental disorder was turned into a theater evening and recorded exclusively for the ORF’s holiday program in the Globe Vienna, so that the audience of ORF 1 and ORF ON is now taken back to the fifties and sixties. The singing ranges from Peter to Alexander, from Gus to Backus, from Caterina to Valente, from Persia to Wöllersdorf, accompanied by the band “Best Friends” and the Simpl Ensemble members Katharina Dorian, Jennifer Frankl and Ariana Schirasi-Fard. In between, sketch classics from the rich repertoire of the two cabaret greats and the Simpl ensemble will be played.

In addition to the vocal numbers – including “The Sweetest Fruits”, “Beautiful Stranger Man” and “Lovesickness Isn’t Worth It” – highlights include the new interpretation of the Georg Danzer classic “Jö, sucht” and the all-time classic door sketch, in which the cabaret stars, wearing only a towel, lock themselves out in the hallway of their apartment building. Based on Peter Alexander’s lyric “A man who doesn’t tell you fairy tales”, the two find themselves in a talk about love and marriage, also present a sketch from the fifties in which patriarchy is still in full bloom, and try in a humorous way, reinterpreting old songs in a politically correct way.