Publicity - Denmark

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Yesterday's premiere on the theatre's facebook site

https://m.facebook.com/detnyteater?sk=a ... 8961700369
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thm wrote:Yesterday's premiere on the theatre's facebook site

https://m.facebook.com/detnyteater?sk=a ... 8961700369
I'm not sure if I like Billy's trousers during Angry Dance. It should be red. :)
There were different costumes in Oslo as well, but Billy wore a red pair of trousers during Angry Dance.
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An article from Kulture:

http://www.b.dk/scene/selv-benhaarde-so ... ailyfix.dk
Even tough , Socialist ministers wept at Billy Elliot premiere

It is the song to follow his inner voice. The song is about doing what you need to do, even though it has not quite know what it is. About daring to be who you are .

When the boy Billy, a miner's son who discovers that dance must be his purpose and meaning in life , first sings with his bright boy's voice about the feelings that move and grow in him , about everything that draws in him despite a background which does not understand him, and embarks on his energetic dance that mixes everything from hip hop to ' Swan Lake ', there is not a dry eye in the musical " Billy Elliot ."

We would really like that it goes well for Billy. And we do want success for the boy who plays him , getting more than saved through the difficult challenges in what is the musical's emotional climax .

We can not but be touched and thrilled by seeing kids try to be the best they can - and succeed with it .

At the New Theatre, on opening night, the clever and cute Carl -Emil Lohmann , not only did the number ' Electricity ' (in Danish ' Shooting Star '), but in general met the genre's many , relentless challenges with moving concentration , uncorrupted playing talent , an unerringly beautiful singing voice and a dance that was good enough to convince the talents that are in the boy.

And let's just say it like it is : " Billy Elliot " stands or falls with the little man in the middle. If you do not see him succeed , it all falls apart. Let's hope the other Billys - three shared the role - is just as good .

This evening was gloriously seconded by equally young Magnus Sterling Borchert as Billy transvestite -sidekick who helps Billy to believe that it is okay to be who you are .

On the whole, Elton John and Lee Hall's world success ' Billy Elliot ', is a musical with heart in the right place . An everyday adventure of becoming a swan despite much adversity - here first of all the forces in the environment that do not have much understanding that a boy would rather dance than go to boxing , which in general are made by matches.

The musical, based on the movie of the same name , is in fact set against the large miner strikes in the 1980s and the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's class-divided Britain, where street fighting rages , solidarity is put under pressure , and mass unemployment threatens - portrayed with good old-fashioned passion .

It is against its beautifully tense backdrop that, while Billy follows his dreams, and through his talent, gets a ticket out of the futile environment from which he comes , there is another world that goes by . Two lines that meet in the scene towards the end where the broken miner gang with Billy's father in the center literally sinking into the ground behind the mine elevator's wire mesh, while Billy has his packed backpack , ready to venture out into the world just, as the piece of coal transformed into a diamond , he is .

At the New Theatre is across the broad musical machinery in impressive revolutions is Lisa Kent gesvindte (?) staging. It all runs - including Paul Farnsworth meticulous set design that evokes the worn northern England to live down to the smallest detail .

The large musicalekvilibrisme (?) makes the show might not really use - riot police and demonstrators in dancing confrontation is a matter of taste - and Elton John's music is not on the original . On the other hand full glare characterizations and to tell the shamelessly sentimental , but in turn honest and not crafty history that makes the evening for a good experience.

Kristian Boland is all he must be like the proud and inflexible father who slowly dry up and if primitive reactions covers a sensitive interior. Heavily . And Julie Steincke will gradually its tough dance teacher inside , Billy's fairy godmother , inoculated with an infectious warmth and great mediated indignation.

By and large, functioning ensemble of miners , ballet girls and strikebreakers will also find precise interventions of Lane Lind, who as granny with beats taking the plunge into the senile demented character types , by Anne Suppli as Billy's dead mother, who goes back and Jesper Asholt as småtumpet boxing teacher.

Yes, " Billy Elliot " has enough heat to replace HC Ørstedsværket . It has paid off for the New Theatre , where one must believe in his dreams .

Even tough , Socialist ministers wept at the premiere . It comes a large audience also to make the season out .

What : " Billy Elliot ."

Who : Manuscript and song lyrics: Lee Hall . Music: Elton John . Translation: Jesper Malmose (dialogue ) and Karen Hoffmann ( songs). Staging and Choreography : Lisa Kent. Scenery: Paul Farnsworth . Musical direction : Per Ensström .

Where: The New Theatre . The rest of the season.
Sorry for the rough translation......is the 'tough Socialist minister' the one seen at the opening show?
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I would actually classify this as more of a review than just an article, so I am copying it over to the January Reviews thread.
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Darth_Revan wrote:
I'm not sure if I like Billy's trousers during Angry Dance. It should be red. :)
There were different costumes in Oslo as well, but Billy wore a red pair of trousers during Angry Dance.
The fitting of the trousers is also an issue.
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Crowd reactions and a bit of last night's finale:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10 ... =2&theater
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Found this tv2 interview with Helmer and Nicolas on Youtube:(Billy og Micheal gæster go morgen danmark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmIwGo7xyAU
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One of the press reactions after the opening night and a translation:
Dance and coal dust

http://gregersdh.dk/?p=9901
'Billy Elliot' is an overwhelming and jaunty show - sunbeam story of a miner boy who want to be a ballet dancer. And becomes one. But actually also about a strike that shook England.


"FIRST you go so terribly much through, and then ..." Now we get the story again, and it is good once again, HC Andersen's tale of the road to fame. The way from the bottom to the top. Here comes the one about the miner's son Billy, who danced his way out of a poor coal mine environment in England to the Royal Ballet School in London. H.C.A. tried similar in Copenhagen, but ended up on a siding, and thanks for that. My goodness, the story is told well at the New Theatre! And it suits the theatre. This theatre can so much - tell many good stories, but it is not among miners or those, we most forgather with, when the theater lets the music, the colors and the adventure play before our eyes. In 'Billy Elliot' the double drama is told in a beautiful way about a boy who succeed in the struggle to fulfill an absurd dream, and the miners who fail in the struggle to keep their dirty work.

RISE AND FALL

The most beautiful spot in the show is virtually the moment when the boy has packed the bags and drags - 'drag', must it be called in honor of the occasion! - off to London, and the pit lift simultaneously descends through the stage floor with his father and his work mates on the way down to the last call in the dirty dark. How can we start our report with the end? But the end is wonderful speaking about the fine contrast between career towards the top of one of the most exclusive arts of civilized society, and the striking miner's shattered dreams of winning a year-long strike. Rise and downfall in one image. The show has some little agglutinated extra-finals, that affect our heart-pounding strings - the blissful boy's deceased mother rises from the grave - for the second time - and mother and child sing together and it's touching and beautiful, and we would like to be touched, but it does not touch the dramatic climax that were just preceding.

THE AIR COMES TO A HALT

Enough about that. This musical has so many highlights along the way, we hover on them, even when they blatantly edge to sentimentality, for example when - no, here we hold our horses - when Billy's father sitting at the workers Christmas party singing a song his father taught him about the hard miner's life. That moment's sentimentality goes far across the border to real proximity, because the text is without a hollow tone, and the song is sung by Kristian Boland in a way to form a veritable space around him. He keeps us stuck in the man's scope of thoughts and reminiscence. The air comes to a halt. Back to the beginning: Margaret Thatcher hangs in large portraits wallpapered on a grid curtain - it was her, the Iron Lady, who knocked the big miners' strike to the ground in the early 80s, and that's the story we follow through to completion, while we follow little Billy who's headed for the ballet. She is the wicked witch of the mining people, who have a daily battle song where each verse ends with 'We are one day closer to your death.' There was hatred in the game. As there is energy and power playing in Elton John's music to 'Billy Elliot'. Good solo numbers for both Kristian Boland as Father Elliot, Julie Steincke portraying her provincial ballet teacher Mrs. Wilkinson spiralling command rawness to the poor children of her small school, a forbidding mistress resolute in voice and action, but with a warmth that hardly comes forward a few centimeters behind the sharp tongue.

ADVENTUROUS

Jesper Asholt is her partner in boxing lessons. You have not the heart to call him a slob, but we do it because it's his job, but then again he glows for the poor youngsters, and now that we have seen Jesper Asholt entangle himself into pirouettes, we forgive everything. In general: The adventurous boy - on opening night: Carl-Emil Lohmann (he'll get some words later) - is surrounded by characters that no matter how bawdy and loudmouthed they are as the mine working people, they have to be - Billy's older brother, played by Sebastian Harris (whom is he related to, with that last name?) or Billy's grandmother, Lane Lind in mummy-disguise, a warming center in the family - they are a bunch of good people, full of good and genuine thoughts wanting the best but having a hard time getting through with it. Is this a 'Billy Elliot' we can recommend here from a late night seat on top of the premiere? Without hesitation and with true conviction. 'Billy Elliot' delivered by the resident director at the New Theatre, Lisa Kent, with stunning precision. It's fulminant. By the resident MD Per Engström equally great. By the set designer Paul Farnsworth with a decorative show, showing how incredibly strong The New Theatre can go. A revolving stage that reveals interior of interior in an amazing flow, street view, houses, stairs, spaces of smooth interaction. Can any Danish stage outperform this? Although the Opera 'The Magic Flute' the other day, that has the best stage mechanism, a Danish theatre owns - beats it, what the 'New' can? Naaah.

BILLY

And finally: The title role. Billy. A thirteen year old boy named Carl-Emil. According to the program in full swing with professional engagements, also formerly at The New Theatre. What should one do with such a guy who can look a moment in the mirror, hear Tchaikovsky's music for the final scene of Act 1 of 'Swan Lake' with the magic annunciation theme in the orchestra, put body and soul to the music and keep it in a large solo track through over five minutes? Play up and tap with his companion Michael, tonight played by Magnus Sterling Borchert with humour and fun and mischief lurking in the corners of their eyes? In addition, be smart, cute and both eloquent and melodic singing in numerous scenes? Others stand ready for the same roles on other evenings. Possibly as well talented. All in all. Yet another uppercut from the musical factory in Vesterbro(borough of Copenhagen). Well prepared, thoroughly elaborated, well cast, refined in all corners.
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Thanks, thm. Since that actually seems to be a review, I have copied the post above over to the January Reviews section.

If any other reviews are forthcoming, please be sure to post them in that section. Let's hope we get many good reviews for February so that we can start a new thread for this month! :D
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The Det Ny Teater has come up with a great publicity idea -- postcards with scenes from the show to send to your friends asking if they've got their tickets yet for the show:

https://www.facebook.com/detnyteater/po ... 2046116978
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