That the classic Broadway musical “Hello, Dolly!” It is no wonder that the music theater in the Revier is so popular: the American dream is also that of the Ruhr area.
They fly past outside the window, lights of the big city. They blur behind the small drops of drizzle that make fine tracks on the windows in the wind. And suddenly Gelsenkirchen at night looks like New York. The administrative and residential towers near the music theater in the Revier, which during the day exude the charm of Berlin’s Alexanderplatz shortly after reunification, could now also serve as a backdrop for the urban canyons of Manhattan. The red and green of the traffic lights – a firework of colors! There, the next intersection is called Kennedyplatz! And the people sitting tightly packed in the pizzeria with 24-hour delivery service – aren’t they actually the hip crowd of a café in Greenwich Village that closed decades ago?