Sunday, 30. March 2008, 06:17:19
theater, reviews
I went to the theater the other day to see a play called "Smile". I love to go to the theater, and I have this kind of subscription to it, that means that I go to 4-6 shows a season at lower prices than usual. This is great, but it means that sometimes I get to see shows that I simply don't know much about. Sometimes the "small" plays are great, and sometimes they are... yeah... well, plays.
I didn't know much about "Smile". It turned out to be a revue. 2 hours of small funny plays. They called it "Smile", and they sure did bring a smile on my face.
It started with a small power cut, so they had to reboot all their computers, which meant a short delay of maybe 10 minutes. While we waited, one of the actors came out and told a joke.
He told it this way:
The other day I met one of my friends, and he had had a giant black eye.
I asked him: "What happened?",
and he answered: "I went to church!"
- "But how could you get a black eye from going to church?"
- "You see, I sat right behind a rather overweight lady, and when the priest said "Let us all pray"! we all stood up. I could see her dress was stuck between her buttocks, so I reached forward to pull it out, and then she turned around and punched my face!"
A week after I met my friend again, and now his other eye was black.
I asked him, "Now what?"
And he answered: "I went to church!"
- "But...?"
- "This time I sat next to the guy who sat right behind the same overweight woman. When the priest said "Let us all pray"! we all stood up again. And again I saw her dress was stuck between her buttocks. This time the guy next to me reached forward and pulled it out, and since I knew she didn't want that, I reached forward and stuffed it back in...."
*Punch*
And then the show started. It was funny.
I will give it 
out of 6.
Monday, 10. March 2008, 06:06:57
theater, reviews
I went to the theater yesterday, to see "ABBA - The Show". It's a play that has been talked a lot about here, so I was being very curious about how good it would turn out to be. 
The history on stage begins in the very late 60s when Bjørn, Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid meet for the first time and begin to play music together.
The show was performed by the Swedish cover band Waterloo and The National Symphony Orchestra of London and it was great. The audience experienced a time travel through Abba's gigantic song catalogue. We got Waterloo, SOS, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Money Money Money, Knowing Me Knowing You and many many others. I even got surprised when we got "Ring Ring" in Swedish, I hadn't even imagined that ABBA once sang in Swedish. 
First half of the show was from the beginning of their career, and it contained mostly hits, no stories about the band in between. Second half was much better, starting in 1977 when the band started to have some problems between the members.
It was good! And they would have earned the last star if I had got a little wiser on the story in the first half.
out of 6.
Saturday, 1. March 2008, 07:03:39
favourite, Trivia, theater, reviews
No, I am not writing blog posts about Alphaville and their giant hit from 1984.
No, Forever Young is the title of a play I saw in the theater yesterday.
The play was about what has happened to the youth in Denmark during the last 80 years. And also about what difference the youth made for Denmark during the same period of time. It was a very interesting play, and a total different way to look at Danish history.
I heard about how the youth was almost not excisting in the 1920s and 30s because they had to work from they were very young. How some tried to make a difference in the Resistance during WWII. How the 50s gave us rock'n'roll. How the 60s raised flower power and legalization of porn. How the 70s' youth grew up in shared houses where mom and dad ran around naked - if they were still married, that is. How the 80s gave us those youngsters we call autonomous, the ones that moved into abandoned houses and fought to be able to stay there. How the 90s gave us the European Championship in football, and what that meant to the Danes in general.
The show even gave me a small peek into the future, but I promised to keep it a secret, so you just gonna have to wait and see for yourself. 
It was brilliant, I just loved it.
out of 6.
Tuesday, 12. February 2008, 06:33:51
theater, reviews
I went to the theater to see a musical the other day, namely "The King and I".
The play is about mrs. Anna Leonowens, a widow from Wales, who arrives in Bangkok with her young son to teach English to the children of the royal household. The King eventually honors his promise of a suitable house. He also very much wishes to absorb western knowledge, but is sometimes conflicted over how to reconcile western ways with his own.Read more...
Saturday, 5. January 2008, 06:53:18
favourite, reviews, theater
S U P E R S T A R
I went to the theatre yesterday to see a very old classic. This play was first set up in 1971, and was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The musical is about the last seven days of Jesus' life, and contains various kinds of rocksongs.
The first song was performed by Judas (that's his Danish name, he might have another name in your language...) and I didn't understand one word of what he sang. He yelled and screamed his words out so I was tempted to go up there and ask him to take it down a little. 
(That would have been something, huh? : "Excuse me? Yes, you up there! Yes, you! Can you please take it down a bit? You sing way too loud! So please?! Thank you so much!")
The next song was Jesus' answer, and that wasn't much better. I began to think that this was a waste of both time and money...
But then something happened. The disciples sang some real good rock songs, and I caught myself tapping my foot and smiling all over. I liked the songs and the performers, and I absolutely loved Maria Magdalena's stunning red boots!
But the best thing of the play was when King Herodes sang and tapdanced barefooted in his pink underwear. 
I will give it out of 6.
I would have given it 6 stars, but two things pull it down to only 5: That Judas sang so his words were unintelligible and that Jesus spat out over the first 4 rows when he sang. 
Monday, 5. November 2007, 05:18:17
theater, reviews
I went to the theatre the other day, to see "Don Juan". Don Juan is a legendary fictional libertine, whose story has been told many times by different authors. This is usually an opera, but this play was made as a modern production, with famous Danish rappers and R'n'B singers in the leading parts. I have never seen anything like this before, so I didn't really know what to expect, except for something completely different.
I liked the music a lot. A mixture between rap, rhytm and blues, rock, pop and a little bit of opera. They could really both sing and rap up there on stage.
I missed a more detailed description of Don Juan though. Yes, he fucked everything with a skirt. Young, old, thin, stout, pretty or ugly. It didn't really matter. He claimed that if he was being faithful to one, then he was being unfaithful to many. He was a true seducer. But I would have liked to hear the story about both sides of the coin. About how devided he really was between all the women, and his own empty shell.
I will give it out of 6.
The fourth star is because of this rapper, Al Agami. He is brilliant!
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