Someone should write a musical about Ronny Danielsson – angel of the to the director that the theatres call on when they need a hit. The list of Her musikaluppsättningar starting to be as long as Broadway. After a rousing ”Shakespeare in love” at the Stockholm city theatre – it continues later in the spring at Dansens Hus – he is back at the Uppsala city theater’s main stage and the Skandinavienpremiären on the ”Big fish”, Tim burton’s movie in a stage musical version that made a success in London after a failed start in New York city.
Uppsala actually has no long tradition in the area. Ronny Danielsson breaks new ground with even a contribution that can’t be described as anything other than a genuine musical theatre. Some of the municipal theatre veterans – Gustav Levin, Aksel Morisse, Åsa Forsblad Morisse and Tytte Johnsson in the major roles – get here the amplification of at least as many superproffsiga song – and dansartister, among others, Daniel Engman in the younger version of the main character Edward Bloom and Lucas Krüger and his son Will.
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the original book is a folktale about a son in the classic way, looking for an absent father, this is a significantly transformed history. It is a profit. Tim burton’s visual creation attracts more vague interpretations of the type ”a man is nothing other than their stories”. Gustav Levin’s storljugare is easier to think about than Albert Finneys grotesque beings in the film, at once childish and oskuldsfullare. It occurs closeness between the young Ed and the old, that is to say, Engman and Levin.
Circus can be scary, but not when Edward junior ride in the road with the gun
the Film’s ironic relation to the american dream ends up pretty soon in the periphery. The episode with the happy småstadshelvetet Spectre shines for example with his absence. Alfred Lippas music has rather something of the old-time song contest. Here there is an intimacy and warmth that takes the sting out of burton’s attraction to the gothic and the ghostly.
the Circus can be scary, but not when Edward junior ride in the road with the cannon, it’s just a fun, colorfully illustrated in Martin Chocholouseks barnboksscenografi. Aksel Morisses big is the perfect lekkamraten.
object to the main theme – the father who found his life – is lost in the more realistic setting as embodied by Gustav Levin and john bradshaw layfield Morisses guaranteed g-rated äktenskapsskildring. Not me when they sing so well and shows that it is possible to romance for a couple of nöjsamma hours.
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