the Rights to the musical have already been acquired by the city of Oslo Nye Teater. The script is already translated into English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish and German versions are waiting for more potential international stakeholders. Vicky von der Lancken, top, executive producer, during the winter had a number of foreign teaterkollegor on the visit.
” I’m really happy that the show has been such a proliferation. It is welcome after the power and energy that the ensemble put into it. In addition to the european interests, I hope, also, that any producer in Australia of bites in the future. The film was a big success there, ” she says.
does not exclude a fourth season of the musical at the Theatre.
– With the return as it is now, it would not surprise me. We played ”Singin’ in the rain” in three years, and the ”hottest team” in two years, but this beats actually everything, ” she says.
Swedish musicals attracts foreign opera house is extremely unusual. Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson’s ”Chess” is a brilliant exception: the world Premiere of the musical took place in London in 1986, where it was 1.130 times. It continued later to Broadway in New York city and at the English National Opera in London. Also Andersson/Ulvaeus ”Kristina from Duvemåla” has been performed abroad, at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki 2012.
hang a giant banner filled with pressrosor from ”as it is in heaven” premiered last autumn. Also DN’s music critic Johanna Paulsson applauded. The story’s interpersonal relationships and life stories make it into ”something much bigger and more powerful than the river of modern Broadwayproduktioner,” she wrote in her review. The composer Fredrik Kempes music accommodates both the folkmusic and dansbandsgung and ”gorgeous interleaved körklanger and wonderfully strong solo performance”.
if you Ask Kay Pollak why the story of conductor Daniel Daréus (Philip Jalmelid) that turns home to his northern village, and become the church choir director evokes such a strong response, he replies that it takes on the existential questions.
– the Ones you face, as ”it is now that life is mine, I can actually die in the morning – am I ready or am I not ready?” The issue affects so many people, and I think they know that they themselves could be any of the people portrayed on stage, ” he says, and shows with the palms of the hands, how the tears gushed down the cheeks of a man in his fifties as he sat next to in the auditorium during a performance.
– What to do with their lives is a question we all face. We are all in different prisons, in work, family or what it is. I sit by yourself and cry and laugh when I see the show.
” No, but we had a vision that we would do something that people were highly concerned by the. It would not be the only glitz and glam, but something else…
” … but still funny, serious and fun, add the Carin Pollak sitting next to in the repetitionsrummet a staircase above Oscarsteaterns the stage floor made. I think many yearn for just that. It is a musical that is easy to grasp and goes straight to the heart, but it would never have become this good without all the amazing artists.
Carin and Kay Pollak. Photo: Adam Daver
the script together with her husband, but also the lyrics by Fredrik Kempe, the artist and the composer who, through the years, created both the opera and pop, schlager and classical music. Inspiration has this time taken from Giacomo Puccini’s Italian känslosvall along with musicals such as ”Billy Elliott”, ”Les Misérables” and Jerry bock’s/Joseph Stein’s ”Fiddler on the roof”.
” The worst thing with musicals is when it feels completely unnatural when someone starts to sing, it is so scary. But we have been working very hard for the music to sound organic and hang together with everything else in the show, ” he says.
In Kempes recording studio was built the idea up on a wall where each scenmoment was placed in a sort of schedule to maximize strength, the effect. Twenty-two songs grew so up.
” We built the musical with the focus on the points where the people on stage are facing a strong feeling – ” where shall it be a happy hubby, where should it be sad old man”. It was like a rollercoaster ride where the music in different ways, would redeem the audience, sums up Kay Pollak.
if that slutresulterat also works on the youngest. Her daughter, Beata, who just turned 13, has seen just over two hours long ”as it is in heaven” eight times, so far.
” She lives into it and think it is funny that it is like a Netflixserie where you get the time to get to know the characters. She has concentrated on different roles in each show as she’s seen, ” says Sly, who portrays Gabriella, one of the conductor Daréus choir and living with a violent man.
– It is a story that affects so many people for every life situation, someone in the audience recognize themselves in – there are divorces, there is violence, disease, and bullying to be taken up, but all forgive and find each other in the end.
” Yes.” For example, to say that you are not perfect and have the courage to say ”I have failed, but I’m good enough yet”. I have never been so emotional and with such a sense of family in the ensemble. As an opera singer so if you travel and jump in at short notice in a set, it is technical and it may affect the audience in any way, but this concern, we also each other.
– this show touches people in really. People go from here and is golvade, it can get rid of the pop, rock and opera also, but this combines everything. This is the funniest thing I have experienced.
” Enormously. That you can be yourself and not have to be one hundred percent all the time. Drop the requirements. I carry a lot of yourself, the hard years, this disease, and that I make use of here. I’m crying at the scene, you do it seriously, we stand up for each other. I’m … shocked at how many good people there are on this theater.
– A new, yelling Kay Pollak before someone else around the table had time to think clearly.
– A different story – and with a female heroine, ” he says. It sounds like it is already finished in his head.
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