Crowded premiere for “Top lunch”

Uppsala Nya Tidning 140401

By: BJÖRN G. STENBERG

Show
Top lunch
Jacke Sjödin, Helen Sjöholm, Andreas Nilsson and Mikael Skoglund.
Katalin, played during April

With a number of illustrious co-workers Jacke Sjödin and his “Top lunch” compete with the Cathedral, the Concert Hall and the Palace abouth which of them has the best perspective. The outcome is given, Björn G Stenberg thinks.

It’s no big secret that Jacke Sjödin is Uppsala’s greatest rhymer since the days of Owe Thörnqvist. Anyone who didn’t know gets to know already in the initial act of Katalin’s lunch performance, when he immediately breaks the world record in rhyming to the word “spring”. Impressive as usual (…)

But if the spring feeling came to life in that number, it disappeared very quickly when impressive Helen Sjöholm in a half-sung monologue brought up the summer stress. How will we keep up with everything, experience everything, and in the right way?

More world records were also served when the world history from Big Bang to the present day was showed in four minutes and fifty-three seconds. (…)

I won’t tell you more about the show. See it for yourselves. Or actually, I’ll tell you one more thing. Have you ever heard Donald Duck singing a duet with Dolly Parton? Nope. Now you have the chance. Andreas Nilsson is all I’m saying.

Lunch performances are a rewarding form of a show. The audience’s hunger is satisfied (here they even sang the recipe), and satiety brings comfort, just to reinforce. Though not that simple. Here the conditions are the best, with such a professional ensemble. (…)

Jacke Sjödin has been rhyming in Uppsala for so long now that you forget that he originally is from Sollefteå. He is so skilled that he immediately puts several jokes and stanzas from a person in the audience (…)

More Norrland gilded. Sundsvall native Helen Sjöholm no longer needs any kind of presentation, but I had forgotten how versatile she is. And what a stage presence. Can never get too much of her. She plays bass guitar too.

Andreas Nilsson turned out to be a voice equilibrist of God’s grace. There is not one dialect he can’t imitate. A funny person also otherwise. Add Mikael Skoglund’s precise piano accompaniment to most parts, he could very well have been given a little bit more space.

The chemistry between the participants also contributes greatly to the good atmosphere. Saturate to both body and soul the premiere audience seemed fully satisfied when they left, even though the ensemble as last number sang “Stay” in Swedish translation, “Stanna”.

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