{"id":14151,"date":"2024-07-08T11:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T09:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=14151"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:36:52","slug":"house-of-angels-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/house-of-angels-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-content\/gallery\/biografi\/house-of-angels-biografi-2.jpg\" alt=\"Helen in a solo scene from the musical House of Angels. In the orange-yellow stage background, shadows of the ensemble appear.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo and \u00a9 Mats B\u00e4cker<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Between September 10, 2023 and May 19, 2024<\/strong>, Helen played the role of Rut Flogf\u00e4lt in the musical \u00c4nglag\u00e5rd (House of Angels) at the Oscar Theater in Stockholm.The musical, based on Colin Nutley&#8217;s movie of the same name from 1992, is written by Edward af Sill\u00e9n and Daniel R\u00e9hn with music by Fredrik Kempe.<\/p>\n<p>Other roles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Axel Flogf\u00e4lt \u2013 Fredrik Lycke<\/li>\n<li>Fanny Zander \u2013 Tuva B Larsen<\/li>\n<li>Zac Paulin \u2013 Lindy Larsson<\/li>\n<li>Gottfrid Pettersson \u2013 Tommy K\u00f6rberg<\/li>\n<li>Ivar Pettersson \u2013 Gustav Levin<\/li>\n<li>M\u00e5rten Flogf\u00e4lt \u2013 Martin Stokke Mathiesen<\/li>\n<li>Eva \u00c5gren \u2013 Sofia Pekkari<\/li>\n<li>Pastor Henning Collmer \u2013 Per Svensson<\/li>\n<li>Lawyer Ragnar Zetterberg, US Zac Paulin \u2013 Denny Lekstr\u00f6m<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Story<\/h3>\n<p>Yxared 1971: Rut Flogf\u00e4lt, married to the rich farmer Axel Flogf\u00e4lt, finds out in a letter addressed to her husband that he is the father of an illegitimate child, five-year-old Fanny. Before the girl&#8217;s birth, Fanny&#8217;s mother Alice left Yxared and settled in Berlin. Rut decides not to say anything and to take the letter and its secret to the grave with her.<\/p>\n<p>20 years later, the elderly Erik Zander dies, apparently without heirs. Axel Flogf\u00e4lt makes plans to buy the deceased&#8217;s grand mansion House of Angels when it goes up for auction but gets a shock when it turns out that Erik has a granddaughter, Fanny, who wants to inherit the estate and also find out who her real father is. When Fanny and her gay friend Zac settle at House of Angels, a culture clash occurs and the only people who appreciate their arrival are Axel and Rut&#8217;s son M\u00e5rten, the elderly brothers Ivar and Gottfrid and the local priest Henning.<\/p>\n<h3>Reviews<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;She makes the angry but unhappy Rut absolutely brilliant, just as finely nuanced as Viveka Seldahl&#8217;s portrayal of her in the movie. Sj\u00f6holm has received the most songs in her lot and performs them with intense presence and a maturely powerful voice \u2013 it&#8217;s actually she who carries the performance&#8221;.<br \/>\n<em>Bo L\u00f6fvendahl, Svenska Dagbladet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And really it&#8217;s Rut \u2013 a brilliantly strong Helen Sj\u00f6holm \u2013 who largely carries this story. She who hid the secret from her husband Axel (Fredrik Lycke) since 1971 and now faces the consequences&#8221;.<br \/>\n<em>Johanna Paulsson, Dagens Nyheter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Helen Sj\u00f6holm&#8217;s Rut is the nerve of the musical in a series of moving song numbers. She has an enormous voice, presses with surprising power and yet you hear every word. When Rut goes on a furious attack on Fanny and when she has a showdown duet with Axel (Fredrik Lykke ), then it takes hold&#8221;.<br \/>\n<em>Anders Bj\u00f6rkman, Expressen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Rut \u2013 not Fanny \u2013 who takes the biggest place in the musical. An unexpected but welcome change. Helen Sj\u00f6holm gives everything in her magnificent solo numbers such as <em>Min plats i solen (My place in the sun)<\/em>, as well as the strong duet <em>Moln av vita l\u00f6gner (Clouds of white lies)<\/em> with Fredrik Lycke, but is also funny in ensemble numbers such as <em>Sticka, sticka (Knit, knit)<\/em>. Her clear, natural voice and strong empathy show once again that she is natural on the musical throne&#8221;.<br \/>\n<em>Elin Thornberg, Bor\u00e5s Tidning<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In May 2024<\/strong>, the music was released on record.<\/p>\n<p>163 performances of House of Angels were played during the year Helen participated and they were watched by more than 150,000 people. In autumn 2024, Sanna Nielsen took over the role of Rut Flogf\u00e4lt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On February 14\u201315, 2025<\/strong>, Helen made a guest appearance in the musical and between May 22 and June 14 of the same year, she reprised the role of Rut, when the musical was performed in Malm\u00f6 and Gothenburg.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-content\/gallery\/biografi\/house-of-angels-biografi-3.jpg\" alt=\"Helen and Tuva B. Larsen in a confrontational scene from House of Angels.\" width=\"467\" height=\"600\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo and \u00a9 Mats B\u00e4cker<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between September 10, 2023 and May 19, 2024, Helen played the role of Rut Flogf\u00e4lt in the musical \u00c4nglag\u00e5rd (House of Angels) at the Oscar <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/house-of-angels-biography\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15334,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14151\/revisions\/15334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}