Kristina goes the Big Apple.

[kalel]

Ex ABBA members Björn Ulveus and Benny Andersson are bringing the musical Kristina to New York for concert presentations two nights in September. 23rd and 24th.

Rumours say that my Swedish favvo songstress Helen Sjöholm are to do the female lead as she did in the successful Swedish production of the musical.




More news about the musical in NY is coming at: www.kristinathemusical.com

Fan site says: icethesite.com/default.aspx?categoryID=13

More info on the musical itself here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina_fr%C3%A5n_Duvem%C3%A5la

I am coming over for the event on 23rd, let's hope I get tickets.

Anybody interested in a gettogether??


Love to yeh all.
/Karl

[lapayin]

Hi Karl,

I am interested. Let's see if I can work out the logistics. Is it definate that the lead will be Helen? I like her a lot.

[kalel]

Hi Paula.
It would be cool if you can make it.

It's said that the castlist will be announced at the same time the tickets are released. May 31st.

Helen has a gap in her schedule almost entire September so I think it's a good chance she'll be doing the lead. I'm crossing my fingers.

/Karl

[kalel]

From www.icethesite.com.

Kristina News

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Helen Sjöholm and Russell Watson to star in Kristina concerts
May 27, 2009

Broadway.com have the low down...

Helen Sjöholm and Russell Watson will headline the concert version of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ musical Kristina at Carnegie Hall. The show, directed by Lars Rudolfsson, will feature 32 actors and a 50-piece orchestra conducted by Paul Gemignani. It plays at Carnegie Hall on September 23 and 24.

Kristina features music and lyrics by ABBA songwriting partners Andersson and Ulvaeus, who also created the musical Chess and the worldwide sensation Mamma Mia!, and English lyrics by Ulvaeus and Herbert Kretzmer. Originally titled Kristina från Duvemåla, the musical premiered in the creators’ native Sweden in 1995 and ran for almost four years, winning four Guldmasken Theatre Awards (Sweden’s Tony). Based on The Emigrants series of novels by Vilhelm Moberg, Kristina tells the epic story of a family’s migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century. A concert version was performed in Swedish in 1996 in Minneapolis, where many events in the novels take place.

Ticket sales start on 31 May 2009. A cast recording of the concert will be available on the Decca arm of Universal Music.

For full story see www.broadway.com/Helen-Sj-holm-and-Russell-Watson-to-Headline-Concert-Version-of-Musical-Kristina/broadway_news/5028214

YIIIIHAAAAAAA

Helen is coming,

Helen IS coming

HELEN IS COMING

I'm looking forward to this one, see you in New York guys.
/Karl

[kalel]

Well, I guess it's offical now,

www.kristinathemusical.com/index.htm

See you in New York folks, I'll be in for the concert 23rd.
YYYIPPPEEEE

/Karl