{"id":13271,"date":"2023-03-04T20:18:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T18:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=13271"},"modified":"2023-03-26T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T11:29:16","slug":"house-of-angels-becomes-a-musical-with-sjoholm-and-korberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/press-clips\/various-2023\/house-of-angels-becomes-a-musical-with-sjoholm-and-korberg\/","title":{"rendered":"“House of Angels” becomes a musical with Sj\u00f6holm and K\u00f6rberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo & \u00a9 Mats B\u00e4cker<\/p><\/div>\n

Hallands Nyheter 2023-02-21<\/strong><\/p>\n

By: MARTIN ERLANDSSON<\/p>\n

After the success of S\u00e5 som i himmelen (As it is in heaven)<\/em>, parts of the same team will make a musical of \u00c4nglag\u00e5rd (House of Angels)<\/em> \u2013 with Helen Sj\u00f6holm in one of the roles.<\/strong>
\n\u2013 It will be fun and exciting, says the singer who also sings in Falkenberg in March.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five years after As it is i heaven<\/em>, another famous Swedish film will become a musical at the Oscar Theater from September 10, with new music by Fredrik Kempe, screenplay by Edward af Sill\u00e9n and Norwegian Tuva B Larsen in the lead role.<\/p>\n

This time, the producers Johan and Vicky von der Lancken have chosen to remake the three-time Golden Horn award-winning House of Angels<\/em>, with Tommy K\u00f6rberg and Helen Sj\u00f6holm in two of the story’s most memorable supporting roles.<\/p>\n

\u2013 It\u00b4s admirable that they are taking such a step in these uncertain times. We hope that we can offer a really great experience, with laughter and tears, that resonates with the audience for a very long time, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

Viveka Seldahl’s character<\/h4>\n

Helen will play the deeply religious Rut, who, among other things, is appalled at how immorality spreads in the small village in V\u00e4sterg\u00f6tland when the show artists Fanny and Zac arrive from Berlin with their free-spirited friends.<\/p>\n

No one can forget how Viveka Seldahl (1944\u20132001) played the role and scolded the main characters.<\/p>\n

\u2013 It\u00b4s a classic scene that exists in many people’s memories and that is included in a new way. Viveka Seldahl’s fantastic acting performance has left a strong impression on my image of House of Angels<\/em>, but I hope to find something of my own, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says and continues:<\/p>\n

\u2013 In Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la<\/em> there was both a literary model and Liv Ullman’s role in the film, but I try to shake it off when you create something new together in a new form, musical theatre.<\/p>\n

How was it to watch As it is in heaven, where your role as Gabriella in the film was interpreted by Malena Ernman?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 It had been 15 years since the film and I felt that you are quickly drawn into another story and that it becomes a new experience, answers Helen.<\/p>\n

Were you asked to be in the musical?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 There were such thoughts, but for me it was not on the map, because I had already done my Gabriella.<\/p>\n

Singing together in P\u00e5 sp\u00e5ret (On the Track)<\/em><\/h4>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm already knows several people in the ensemble. She has shared the stage with Tommy K\u00f6rberg many times before, for example in Chess in Swedish<\/em> 2002\u20132004, My fair lady<\/em> 2008\u20132009 and with Benny Andersson Band \u2013 most recently in the finale of On the Track<\/em>, which was broadcast last Friday.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tommy will be fantastic fun to work with again and Fredrik Lycke, with whom I will play a couple (he plays Sven Wollter’s role as Axel), I have done many concerts with and longed to play with. I know exactly how it feels to sing with Fredrik and he is also a very fine actor, says Helen.<\/p>\n

In the film House of Angels<\/em>, Fanny was played by a 27-year-old Helena Bergstr\u00f6m and now the role will be played by 31-year-old Tuva B Larsen. Rikard Wolff played Zac as a 33-year-old (and was 59 when he died in 2017) and now the role is taken over by 48-year-old Lindy Larsson, who made a breakthrough as the pastor lecturer Kristoffer in House of Angels \u2013 the third time<\/em> in 2011.<\/p>\n

(…)<\/p>\n

K\u00f6rberg in the role of G\u00fcnther<\/h4>\n

House of Angels <\/em>by Colin Nutley premiered in theaters on February 21, 1992 and was seen by 1.14 million people. It was nominated for five golden rams and won for best film and best director, while Ernst G\u00fcnther (1933\u20131999) received a special ram for “creative efforts” as Gottfrid.<\/p>\n

That particular role, as one of the village’s two elderly, single brothers, is played in the musical by Tommy K\u00f6rberg \u2013 the legend who has performed at Fridas in K\u00e4rradal north of Varberg almost every summer since 2002.<\/p>\n

So it will be 74-year-old K\u00f6rberg who gets to utter Gottfrid’s classic lines about “bananas in the ears”.<\/p>\n

\u2013 It’s quite common for movies to be made for the musical with other actors. Right now, for example, Bodyguard<\/em> is playing at Chinateatern and there Nadja Kasanesh Holm plays the role that Whitney Houston had, says co-producer Bosse Andersson from Falkenberg and 2entertain.<\/p>\n

Collaborated for 20 years<\/h4>\n

Bosse thinks it’s interesting that competitors such as Stockholm’s City Theater and the Gothenburg Opera are simultaneously investing in proven cards such as A Chorus Line<\/em> and Cabaret<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Yes, it should be the other way around considering that they only receive 25 percent of the revenue from tickets and 75 percent from contributions, but for us it’s an honor to be involved when Vicky and Johan make a brand new musical on commercial terms. The idea came up a few years ago and the fact that As it is in heaven<\/em> went so well gave a boost, he says, reminding us that this year marks exactly 20 years since 2entertain started collaborating with Vicky von der Lancken.<\/p>\n

Edward af Sill\u00e9n, who writes the script with Daniel R\u00e9hn and directs, has, in addition to many pub shows, plays, TV galas and musicals, also written the script for two feature movies that have been directed by the House of Angels<\/em> couple Colin Nutley (The Medicine<\/em>) and Helena Bergstr\u00f6m (A freaking Christmas<\/em>). .<\/p>\n

Edward af Sill\u00e9n thinks that the musical genre is about maximizing all emotions.<\/p>\n

\u2013 In a movie you can lean on the photo, but here everything has to be done concretely on a stage and I’m so impressed by Fredrik Kempe who writes the music, he contributes pure gold, says af Sill\u00e9n to G\u00f6teborgs-Posten and continues:<\/p>\n

\u2013 I’ve worked on so many different projects together with Fredrik and here he really fits perfectly. And I can already promise that there will be real parade numbers. When I heard a song that Helen Sj\u00f6holm sings in the first act, I literally fell off my chair.<\/p>\n

Concert in Falkenberg<\/h4>\n

As early as March 29, those who have bought a ticket can hear Helen Sj\u00f6holm live in a full up Falkenberg City Theater.<\/p>\n

The 52-year-old from Sundsvall will, among other things, perform well-known hits at Svenstoppen, such as Du m\u00e5ste finnas (You have to be there)<\/em> from Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la<\/em> (1995), Du \u00e4r min man (You are my man)<\/em> med Benny Andersson Band (2004) and Gabriella’s song<\/em> from As it is in heaven<\/em> (2004).<\/p>\n

\u2013 The concert will represent my entire career and I have, for example, something from the collaboration with Anders Widmark (on the album Through every breath<\/em>, 2003), something from So much better (2020) and a personal show about my grandmother, who is from such a village like in House of Angels; <\/em>N\u00e4s\u00e5ker in \u00c5ngermanland, where I have a lot of roots.<\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm is accompanied by pianist Rikard Nilsson. It’s Lions in Falkenberg who arrange the concert and the financial surplus goes to charitable projects.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Me and Rikard got to know each other about two years ago, when we toured with a bigger band. Then we started working together with just the voice and an instrument, and that’s a foundation that you come from and like to land in. You need to have a completely new entry in every single song to find the core of it, Helen explains.<\/p>\n

Likes Vallarna’s ham acting<\/h4>\n

For the past two summers, Helen Sj\u00f6holm has been in Falkenberg with her family and, among other things, saw 2entertain’s ham acting at Vallarna.<\/p>\n

\u2013 It started when we were driving home from Sk\u00e5ne and felt it was too far, and since my husband (David Granditsky) is good friends with Annika Andersson (Korenado), we slept over in Falkenberg. Now Vallarna has become a bit of a fun tradition, which the kids ask for, so we’ll probably go there again this year. We also discovered the beaches and how nice it is in Falkenberg in the summer, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

(…)<\/p>\n

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The musical House of Angels<\/em><\/h4>\n