#så som i himmelen

[starlene]

So @neroushalvaus told me that in the current Finnish production of Så som i himmelen, after a big assortment of other questionable choices, they interpret the finale as some sort of Literal Vision of Heaven... and in there, Tore magically heals of his disability.

The more I think about this, the more disappointed and angry I feel about it.

I mean. The whole entire point of the character of Tore is that the others learn to accept him exactly as he is, and that he has a unique, valuable voice just like everybody else. Besides that, he's a very rare instance of disabled representation within musical theatre. Sure, he's often played by non-disabled actors – but the Helsinki production showed us how you can achieve great results by splitting the role between a disabled and a non-disabled actor, so the role can also be an opportunity for disabled actors, given that they're provided enough support throughout the process.

Or it can be an opportunity for a non-disabled actor to treat disability like a costume you can simply take off when you're done with it and for a production to imply that disabled people are not good as they are, I guess. Cool beans!

Incredibly disappointed with the director and everyone else involved.

#they also cut the whole prologue and have Daniel coughing up blood and whatnot #unlike the Tore thing those choices are not offensive or anything. but I do think they're very very dumb #dunno! this detail has just been haunting me #I'm sure the actor and/or the director could explain why they've made such a choice... #but personally tbh I'm not super interested in hearing that #I think they're sending an awful message re: disabled people no matter the reasoning #oh well! I guess it's high time we had a trash fire production after so many strong ones #also I guess ymmv if you're not a big fan of the show. but I am. so there's that. #🎶 I had such hopes and now those hopes are shattered 🎶 #Så som i himmelen

[musicals-in-sweden]

A proshot of the original Oscarsteatern production of Så som i himmelen is coming to SVTPlay!

It will be available to watch between December 29th 2023 and January 28th 2024 and can only be viewed in Sweden.

#musikalen så som i himmelen #så som i himmelen #så som i himmelen oscarsteatern #oscarsteatern #proshot #svtplay #production footage #2020 #musicals #musical theatre #musical theater #musicals in sweden #Youtube

[neroushalvaus]

"Fråga Arne is the best I Am song in musical theatre", I say into the mic. The crowd boos. They scream the names of different, more well-known songs. I turn away from the mic, ashamed, when I hear a voice from the back row. "She's right." I turn to see who is talking, and there he is: Magnusson, with a fixed toupée.

#arne hoitaa arne hoitaa #så som i himmelen

[littlebluestars]

Helen Sjöholm in Så Som i Himmelen (2004) dir. Kay Pollak

#helen sjöholm #så som i himmelen #remember when I said I would have to make this gifset over a year ago #and I guess it's better late than never #gabriella is everything actually #kattigifs

[fyeahfinnishmusicaltheatre]

Oona Airola as Lena and Jaakko Lahtinen as Tore in Helsingin kaupunginteatteri’s 2021–22 production of Niin kuin taivaassa / Så som i himmelen.

Photo by Otto-Ville Väätäinen.

#Niin kuin taivaassa #Så som i himmelen #Lena #Tore #Oona Airola #Jaakko Lahtinen #Helsingin kaupunginteatteri #photo by Otto-Ville Väätäinen

[veilingofthesun]

Tonight was just magical. I witnessed a musical concert with the original Så som i himmelen cast. The venue is beautiful, the sun shone and a lovely bunch of people sang their hearts out. It was a lovely way to say goodbye to them and that production.

Some highlights:

*A wonderful instrumental ssih medley to start it all off.

* Lots of Ssih songs and not just the most famous ones

* The six women 'Du måste finnas' version I didn't know I needed until tonight, but now I'm in love with it.

* The sound of music medley that kindly gave me another chance to hear Karolin Funke sing 'Climb every mountain'

* Anders Ekborg

*The absolutely lovely Tuva B. Larsen

* En sång till livet ×2 (one with the orchestra and one with just the guitar)

#så som i himmelen #emmas theatre thoughts #i'm so glad i bought tickets to this #it was just lovely #i feel so happy

[notupforpolo]

Trots att jag älskar så sol i himmelen och musikaler har jag aldrig lyssnat på musikalen, men ni gjorde jag det och asså den var ju jättebra (varför väntade jag). Jag har dock lite tankar ändå:

Det började spelas dansbandsmusik i mina hörlurar och jag tänkte ’undra om det här är Arnes låt?’ Genialiskt. 10/10 det är klar det ska vara dansband när det är Arne.

Anders Ekborg är så sjukt Anders Ekborg och det är en sjuk bra sak. Jag har bara bra associationer med den mannen och han levererade. Jag behövde inte en titta vem som sjöng ”Hur tror du att det känns”.

På tal om skådespelarna - sjukt bra casting på nästan alla fronter. Philip Jalmelid började sjunga och jag kände att det är klart han är Daniel. När han och Tuva B Larsen sjunger tillsammans… jag var nära på att behöva sätta mig på golvet inne på Åhléns. När alla öppnade munnen kände jag bara att det fall på plats.

Med det sagt, jag har svårt för Malena Ernman. Jag tror att min bild av Gabriella är lite för synonym med Helen Sjöholm för jag älskar henne med hela mitt hjärta (ska på hennes julkonsert i december) och därmed har jag svårt för Gabriella med operarröst. Malena kanske var jättebra annars men hon är inte min Gabriella

Slutsats: varför har jag inte bara gått och sett den? Jag har sett reklam för den sen innan den kom ut men inte bara gått? Det hade inte ens varit svårt??? Nu måste jag ju se den!

#så som i himmelen

[linguenuvolose]

not in the best mindset to defend my thesis tomorrow. I'm just so fed up and exhausted so if anyone critiques anything I've done at this point I'll just be like "yeah you're 100% right and it's all due to the decline of my mental health." maybe another structure of the conclusions would have worked better Ida. yeah I agree it all sucks but I could also not care less, arrivederci

#guuuuuud i himmelen snälla free me from my misery #SJUKT pazzesco att det är så kort tid kvar... haha verkligen omg kommer vara klar med den här fucking skiten om mindre än 24 h #vill bara vara klar bryr mig inte om något annat #I say men klart som fan jag bryr mig aja vi får väl se #snicksnack #thesis

[jars-artcollection]

I need whatever possessed me while drawing that hypnos to do it again please

#genuinely that was my peak. every time I look at him I feel at peace and I haven’t been able to achieve that since. #it’s also one of few pieces I still really really like after so long #there’s something about the textures of the dress and the crosshatching on the skin that I can’t recreate…. I really wanna do that again. #sorry it’s really late and I’m listening to så som i himmelen so I’m a little weepy

[emeraldskulblaka]

Tumblr's Top 50 Musicals: Results

I've posted the Top 50 Musicals over the last couple of days, and now it's time to look at all shows that have been submitted - 275 in total! Thank you for participating and submitting your lists, this was great fun 🎭

The scores (given in brackets) were calculated as follows: #1 received 10 points, #2 received 9 points,..., and #10 received 1 point, resulting in 55 points per entry/list. Incomplete and anonymous entries were discounted.

I ranked the musicals up to #102 (16 points), all shows which scored 15 points or less are merely listed. The logos you can see here represent musicals that weren't mentioned even once.

OVERVIEW (incl. stats) - ORIGINAL POST

1) Les Misérables (622)

2) The Phantom of the Opera (ALW) (468)

3) Hadestown (454)

4) Hamilton (326)

5) Wicked (293)

6) Newsies (218)

7) Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (213)

8) Falsettos (207)

9) SIX (205)

10) Come From Away (189)

11) Elisabeth (166)

12) Heathers (163)

13) Into the Woods (160)

14) Jesus Christ Superstar (136)

15) Little Shop of Horrors (126)

16) Sweeney Todd (124)

17) West Side Story (120)

18) Beetlejuice (113)

19) Spring Awakening (112)

20) Next to Normal (110)

21) Cats (106)

22) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (105)

23) RENT (102)

24) In the Heights (98)

25) Rebecca (92)

26) Anastasia (83)

27) Tanz der Vampire (82)

28) Legally Blonde (81)

29) Chicago (79)

30) The Sound of Music (77)

31) Moulin Rouge (73)

32) Waitress (71)

33) Fiddler on the Roof (70)

34) Jekyll and Hyde (68)

35) Company (62)

36) The Lightning Thief (60)

37) Something Rotten (57)

38) The Lord of the Rings (56)

39) Disney's Beauty and the Beast (55)

40) SpongeBob SquarePants (52)

41) Chess (51)

42) The Lion King (49)

43) Fun Home (48)

44) My Fair Lady (47)

45) Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella & A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (46)

47) Ghost Quartet & Matilda (45)

49) Be More Chill (44)

50) Cabaret (43)

51) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat & Mamma Mia! & Pippin (42)

54) The Book of Mormon & The Scarlet Pimpernel (40)

56) Dear Evan Hansen & The Rocky Horror Show (39)

58) Hairspray (38)

59) Bat Out Of Hell & The Last Five Years (37)

61) Frozen & Roméo et Juliette & The Secret Garden & Tick, Tick... Boom! (36)

65) Finding Neverland & The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (35)

67) Amélie (34)

68) Shrek (33)

69) Sunday in the Park with George (32)

70) Carrie & Frankenstein & Godspell & Notre Dame de Paris (29)

74) Billy Elliot (28)

75) She Loves Me (27)

76) We Are the Tigers (26)

77) Assassins & Bandstand & Tuck Everlasting (25)

80) Mean Girls & Mozart das Musical & The Music Man & The Prince of Egypt (23)

84) & Juliet & Alice By Heart & Bare A Pop Opera & The Count of Monte Cristo (22)

88) Annie & Bonnie and Clyde & The Clockmaker's Daughter & Kinky Boots & Mozart L'Opéra Rock (21)

93) Big Fish & A Chorus Line & Titanic (20)

96) The Band's Visit & Starship (19)

98) Twisted (18)

99) The Addams Family & Evita & Suessical (17)

102) Anything Goes & Hello, Dolly! & Лэ о Лэйтиан (Lay of Leithian) & The Little Mermaid & Pacific Overtures (16)

15 points:

Avenue Q

Der Besuch der alten Dame

The Grinning Man

Gypsy

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The Phantom of the Opera (Y&K)

Rudolf

Starlight Express

A Very Potter Musical

14 points:

Carousel

Hair

A Little Night Music

Parade

The Prom

13 points:

The King and I

Once

Starry

The Trail to Oregon!

12 points:

Aida

American Idiot

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Head Over Heels

Lestat

Love Never Dies

Oklahoma!

School of Rock

11 points:

The Drowsy Chaperone

Mary Poppins

Rock of Ages

Ein wenig Farbe

10 points:

An American in Paris

Blood Brothers

If/Then

Linie 1

Lizzie

Oliver

Passion

Peter Pan

Phantom of the Paradise (is there a stage production?)

Последние Испытание (The Last Trial)

Ragtime

Så som i himmelen

9 points:

36 Questions

Aladdin

Artus Excalibur

Camelot

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Émilie Jolie

Evil Dead

Fangirls

In the Green

Me and My Girl

Miss Saigon

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

A New Brain

Once On This Island

Only Fools and Horses

Paint Your Wagon

Rocky

8 points:

Black Friday

The Color Purple

De drie biggetjes

Earnest Shackleton Loves Me

A Farce in Pigalle

Финрод-Зонг (Finrod Zong)

The Light in the Piazza

Merrily We Roll Along

Side Show

Spamalot

We Will Rock You

7 points:

Bright Star

Caroline, or Change

Children of Eden

City of Angels

Dracula

Das Dschungelbuch

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Grease

Groundhog Day

Lelies

Martin Guerre

Ride the Cyclone

Show Boat

South Pacific

Sunset Boulevard

Vivaldi

6 points:

9 to 5

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Candide

Catch Me If You Can

Chłopi

Don’t Stop Me

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

In Trousers

The Mad Ones

Мастер и Маргарита (Master and Margarita)

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Rumi

Sing Street

[title of show]

The View UpStairs

The Wild Party (LaChiusa)

The Wind in the Willows

5 points:

3 Musketeers

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Cry Baby

Daddy Long Legs

Death Note

The Fantasticks

Heidi

Preludes

The Spitfire Grill

The Wild Party (Lippa)

4 points:

Back to the Future

Firebringer

Follies

Jersey Boys

Once Upon a Mattress

Peter and the Starcatcher (play)

The Pirates of Penzance

Rose-Marie

Space Dogs

This Could Be On Broadway

3 points:

The Bridges of Madison County

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Show

La Cage aux Folles

Kiss Me Kate

Man of La Mancha

Octet

Songs For a New World

A Strange Loop

Varissuo

2 points:

Bad Girls

Crazy For You

Doctor Zhivago

Dolls of New Albion

Guys and Dolls

The Hello Girls

Hoy no me puedo levantar

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

A Man of No Importance

Nine

Nunsense

Orpheus in the Underworld

Pretty Woman

Road Show

Starmania

Thoroughly Modern Millie

1 point:

1789 Les Aimants de la Bastille

Bashville

Brigadoon

The Cat in the Hat

Goosebumps

Eugenius

Funny Girl

Holy Musical B@tman!

Made in Dagenham

The Man Who Laughs

Ordinary Days

The Phantom of the Opera (Alonso)

The Producers

A Shoggoth on the Roof

Sunny Afternoon

The Wedding Singer

Venice

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Zombie Prom

Thanks all x

#tumblr's top 50 musicals #tagging all participants in the comments! #if you find a mistake please let me know - it's probably a typo because points and mentions add up to the correct number #les mis #phantom of the opera #hadestown #hamilton #wicked

[starlene]

Så som i himmelen original cast proshot on SVT on the 29th!

Wahoo or what!!

#only available in Sweden but you know. that's not an impassable hurdle #gotta figure out how to save it from their website though #they should put it on dvd and save me this trouble #anyway! can't wait #Så som i himmelen

[musicals-in-sweden]

A farewell video from the original cast of Så som i himmelen.

#Så Som I Himmelen #musikalen så som i himmelen #Oscarsteatern #production clips #production footage #musicals #musical theatre #musical theater #musicals in sweden

[neroushalvaus]

i want to eat en sång till livet

#kaiKEN MUUN POIS MÄ VOISIN ANTAA MUT KOSKAAN EN LÄMPÖÄS SUN!!!!! #så som i himmelen

[littlebluestars]

I was trying to find så som i himmelen (2004) at my local recycling centre today but sadly they didn't have it so instead I got these for 3 euros

#we make a lot of war movies huh #but it has been years since I last saw these #så som i himmelen was on tv again just recently and it made me want to have it on DVD as well #I do have it saved on my laptop but eh I'm not a fan of the watermark #my local recycling centre truly supporting me with their low prices

[esters-notepad]

Vad ljus över griften!

Han lever, o fröjd!

Fullkomnad är skriften,

o salighets höjd!

Från himmelen hälsad,

han framgår i glans,

och världen är frälsad,

och segern är hans.

Bortvältad är stenen och inseglet bräckt,

och vakten har flytt för hans andes fläkt,

och avgrunden bävar.

Halleluja!

Här var mellan ljuset

och mörkret en strid,

dock segrade ljuset

för evig tid.

Nedstörtad är döden

och tron står opp

bland jordiska öden

med himmelskt hopp.

I sörjande kvinnor, vem söken I här?

Den levande ej bland de döda är:

Uppstånden är Jesus.

Halleluja!

Så himlen med jorden

försonade sig,

så graven är vorden

till glädjen en stig.

I huvu'n, som böjdens

vid korsets fot,

upplyftens och fröjdens

trots världens hot.

Kom, skingrade hjord, till din herde igen:

Han lever, han lever och följer dig än

osynlig från himlen.

Halleluja!

Nu stormen, o tider!

Hans kyrka står fast.

Som ljuset sig sprider

hans lära med hast.

Ut gå i all världen

hans sändningabud

och vittna bland svärden

och bålen om Gud

och vittna om honom, o tröst i all nöd,

som, död för vår synd, blev genom sin död

en förstling till livet.

Halleluja!

I fromma, vi klagen,

vi misströsten I?

Hur fort är båd' dagen

och natten förbi!

Snart jorden upplåter

sin famn till er ro,

snart uppstån i åter

likt kornen som gro.

Han själv, som dem sådde, skall komma till slut

och samla in skörden, men skilja förut

ogräset från vetet.

Halleluja!

-Frans Michael Franzén

#svenska

[fyeahfinnishmusicaltheatre]

Lukuvinkki!

Näyttelijä ja tutkija Riikka Papusen kirjoittamassa artikkelissa käydään läpi prosessia, jonka tuloksena Niin kuin taivaassa -musikaalin kehitysvammaista roolihahmoa Torea esittämään valittiin HKT:n taannoiseen tuotantoon kehitysvammainen näyttelijä Jaakko Lahtinen.

Artikkeli pureutuu siihen, mitä kaikkea on otettava huomioon, jotta kehitysvammaisen näyttelijän on turvallista toimia osana suurta musikaalituotantoa. Kokemuksiaan jakavat artikkelissa Lahtisen lisäksi tuotannon muut näyttelijät ja ohjaaja Jakob Höglund.

Artikkelin voi ladata linkin takaa suomen- tai ruotsinkielisenä pdf-tiedostona.

#Niin kuin taivaassa #Så som i himmelen #Tore #Jaakko Lahtinen #Jakob Höglund #Helsingin kaupunginteatteri #Riikka Papunen #article #Finnish only