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Post by anthony40 on Apr 22, 2024 13:06:59 GMT
If there were an English cast recording, I'd give it a go.
I don't know how recent this was but I was in the ABBA Museum abut a week before the whole country was locked down for Covid and there was no mention of it.
At the end the museum details what each member of ABBA did next. There was reference to Chess- in fact a whole large section and Krystina, but not Hjälp Sökes (Help Wanted).
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Post by singingbird on Apr 22, 2024 13:29:59 GMT
If there were an English cast recording, I'd give it a go. I don't know how recent this was but I was in the ABBA Museum abut a week before the whole country was locked down for Covid and there was no mention of it. At the end the museum details what each member of ABBA did next. There was reference to Chess- in fact a whole large section and Krystina, but not Hjälp Sökes (Help Wanted). It was written in 2013, I think. It's obviously a much lower-key piece than Chess or Kristina, but the cast recording has one stunning melody after another. You can read more about it here - www.icethesite.com/home/hjalp-sokes/ |
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Post by singingbird on Apr 22, 2024 13:30:24 GMT
This is one of my favourite songs from it -
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Post by originalconceptlive on May 11, 2024 22:49:21 GMT
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Post by viserys on May 12, 2024 7:27:33 GMT
(For what it's worth) are you all familiar with Kristina? It was Benny & Bjorn's next musical after Chess. Ignored this thread so far since I don't care much for Chess, but can't resist a brag - I did see Kristina (twice) when it first ran in Malmö and made Helen Sjöholm and Peter Jöback superstars in Sweden. I still have the Swedish 3-CD-Set and later got the English 2-CD-Set from Carnegie Hall. I was learning Swedish at the time and plugged through the four books of Vilhelm Moberg's "The Emigrants" books before seeing the show, so it was fairly easy to follow. The show tried to attach itself to the big weepies of the period (Les Mis and all) with big ballads and a good dose of Swedish folk music. Kristina's song at the end of Act One (when they finally reach Minnesota and settle down) is one of the very few songs that has always and will always reduce me to a blubbering mess because it captures the longing for a lost homeland so beautifully in a simple image. On the other hand, I could never get on board with her supposed big ballad "Du maste finnas" where she has an existential crisis because the doctor told her she mustn't get pregnant anymore (thus no more nookie) because another pregnancy would kill her and she's basically like "Okay, God, if you exist, you will protect me and let me live" (and of course he doesn't, she gets pregnant and dies). I wonder if that why the show seems to have died completely, because in today's society her thinking seems completely idiotic (and I find it hard to believe that even in 19th century, with a former whore for a best friend, Kristina wouldn't have known that there are many other ways of intimacy that wouldn't risk her getting pregnant anymore). Anyway, apparently Kristina will have a German-language production in 2024 in Koblenz, I'm keeping my eyes out for it. Now as you were - back to Chess  Would see it on Broadway if Lena Hall gets to sing Florence again. |
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Post by blamerobots on May 23, 2024 10:41:50 GMT
Found myself listening to the Gothenberg concert yesterday; still one of my favourite recordings of this show.
Maybe the best Endgame there ever has been (THE Bb4)
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Post by BVM on Aug 7, 2024 15:46:03 GMT
Dead in the water?
Happening?!
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Post by shownut on Aug 7, 2024 15:59:35 GMT
Dead in the water? Happening?! According to Broadway Briefing two weeks ago, it is 'in development' so definitely not dead. |
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Post by BVM on Aug 7, 2024 16:15:05 GMT
Dead in the water? Happening?! According to Broadway Briefing two weeks ago, it is 'in development' so definitely not dead. Fingers crossed then! |
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Would see it on Broadway if Lena Hall gets to sing Florence again. 
