Kristina från Duvemåla - A Sunday In Battery Park / Hemma

[wilhub]

i just love `battery`. it is such a catchy song, it gives you goose bumps

[palcopeter]

This is going to be the next "Les Misérables", given the right marketing etc!!

[AbbaChick]

Is it just me, or does the girl on the Kristina från Duvemåla logo look a lot like Linda Ulvaeus? Is it her? Cause it looks so much like her, well at least I think it does!

[Isanniel]

No, it's Helen Sjöholm on the logo.

[AbbaChick]

Really? I didn't think it looks like helen Sjoholm, but now that you say it, it does look like her! Thanks for that!!

[usskan]

But Linda Ulvaeus did play the role as Elin in the musical here in Sweden.

[sprucetwig22]

@AbbaChick No. I think it´s Liv Ullman.

[orono2004]

It`s been confirmed now that Helen Sjoholm will perform in 2 concerts of Kistina in September 2009 at Carnegie hall in NYC along with Russel Watson

[burningled]

This is an amazing musical, and i hate Disney for booking broadway's ass up and down the street (no pun intended.) Otherwise Kristina Fran Duvemala would have been here as soon as they finished up that dude's lawsuit.

[verkobula]

I saw this in Stockholm 8 or 10 years ago. 3h and it was no time! I gladly go see it 2 in a row..... ( And by the way...Sorry for my bad English )

[iduefoscari]

I am amazed that if Broadway,or the West End in London wont put on this masterpiece of the highest order.Then let The "Met" or "Convent Garden" put it on. Porgy and Bess is now considered as an opera and produced. " Kristina Fran Duvemela" is far superior.

[dastiuskrazituac]

I agree. It is very operatic. Maybe, the NY City Opera should give it a go.

[fingal61]

"Kristina," available on a Swedish CD, is not only the first substantial piece that Andersson and Ulvaeus have written in their native language; it's the one of the most ambitious swatches of musical theater (39 songs!) since Gershwin's 1935 "Porgy and Bess," with one of the most serious, lyrically seductive scores since Rodgers and Hammerstein were creating their midcentury, midcult epics. Think of the loveliest melodies from ?Chess? (Mountain Duet, You and I), then multiply by 2-1/2 hours.

[fingal61]

And if there's not a surefire pop hit in the whole steamer trunk, "Kristina" boasts dozens of gorgeous numbers: folk tunes, marches, love songs, rage-against-the-midwinter-nig­ht songs and, of course, anthems — Benny's done more of them than Francis Scott Key and Irving Berlin put together.

Don't wait for "Kristina" to come to Broadway or the leather-bar juke box. Don't even wait for Kretzmer to translate it for the West End (besides, you can find an English-language libretto on the net).

[fingal61]

Buy the CD and dive into the musical rapture. Tunes with funny titles — "Min Lust Till Dej, - Ut Mot Ett Hav, - Nej, - Hemma, - Min Astrakan, - Guldet Blev Till Sand, - Vildgras and the immortal "I Gott Bevar" (really!) — will be haunting you in no time. By the end of "Kristina", I think you'll be joining me in saying, to Benny and Bjorn: thank you for the music, three ABB-odacious decades of it."

Richard Corliss, Time Magazin 2001

[LadyDragonbane]

"Hemma" is one of my favourite songs from the musical. :)

[chiquitita2004]

Mine too :-)

And Du Maste Finnas is sooo marvelous, but I like the English version better - for different reasons, one of them is that I find Helen's voice more mature and deep in the English version. . Wish I could hear Hemma in English too :-)

[orono2004]

Kristina The Concert.

The English version of Kristina från Duvemåla will, according to an interview with Benny on the internet station Sirius Radio, be presented in concert form on 23 and 24 September 2009 at Carnegie Hall, New York

[AbbyLalaShow]

It iz coming to broadway they are translating it to english

[MrsCullen42]

it was already saposeta be in broadway or at least coming soon but lik the first guy they hired to rewrite it in english was lik REALLY bad so they said NO and fired him and then hired a new guy and his script was MUCH better but then lik the first guy tried to sew them for using the same script and he lost

[hammarstrand88]

I just wish could have seen it..It`s absolutely the best musical ever.

[piafedith]

I likethis song so much

[YD8189]

Behaga förlåta min fattig använda av Svensk utom Jag vill försök till förklara den i din språk :

EN kritiker för en av USA mest viktig tidningarna ( rik Corliss ) sa musik av den här kvalitet har icke blitt skrev för en musikalisk sedan dess Georg Gershwin och Rogers och Hammerstein skrev för scen. De var betraktat som till vara bland USA betydligaste komponisterna. Till säga den en annan väg , den här er den bäst musik Mr. Corliss har hörde i nästan 50 tårna.

[Fraziig]

Du är bra på svenska:D jag förstod allt

[swedishgirl1993]

Oh vad bra det är

[YD8189]

Richard Corliss of "Time Magazine" nailed it. You have to go

back to Gershwin and Rogers and Hammerstein to find anything of this grandeur and scope.

God! I hope it comes to Broadway. Let "Billy Elliot" rake in the Tonys in 2008 and "Kristina" will wipe the floor of the awards in 2009.

[swedishgirl1993]

Kristina from Kristina från Duvemåla. I don't understand

[vildgras]

Absolutely gorgeous!

My favourite musical ever.