Organization

Stage director

Matthias Davids

Translator

Gabriele Haefs

Roman Hinze

Conductor

Juheon Han

Lighting designer

Guido Petzold

Costume designer

Susanne Hubrich

Set designer

Mathias Fischer-Dieskau

Choreographer

Melissa King

Dramaturge

Arne Beeker

Singer

Christian Fröhlich

Daniel

Celina dos Santos

Lena

Judith Jandl

Gabriella

Sanne Mieloo

Gernot Romic

Arne

Karsten Kenzel

Stig

Daniela Dett

Inger

Birgit Zamulo

Olga

Lukas Sandmann

Tore

William Mason

Erik

Nina Weiß

Amanda

Tina Schöltzke

Florence

Hannah Moana Paul

Daniel's mother

Orchestra

Bruckner Orchester Linz

Landestheater Linz Musiktheater

German

Wie Im Himmel

Linz

Austria

Grosser Saal Musiktheater

Wie Im Himmel: Så som i himmelen Kempe

Public

As It Is In Heaven

Approved

LIKE IN HEAVEN | KAY POLLAK | CARIN POLLAK | FREDRIK KEMPE

WIE IM HIMMEL | KAY POLLAK | CARIN POLLAK | FREDRIK KEMPE

After suffering a heart attack, star conductor Daniel Daréus returns to the village of his childhood, to Ljusåker in northern Sweden. Because of his pseudonym, nobody there recognizes the comrade from elementary school. At first reluctantly, he takes over the direction of the church choir and inspires its colorful crowd of members with his idiosyncratic methods. But not everyone in town likes the fact that a fresh wind is blowing through the village: Gabriella's violent husband Conny and the bitterly ascetic pastor Stig are each fighting in their own way to ensure that the old "order" is restored. Against all odds, the group, which has grown in number, travels to Vienna for a choir competition.

What is probably Sweden's best-known film was adapted into a moving musical by screenwriter Kay Pollak himself and provided with feather-light music by Fredrik Kempe. The play ran en suite in Stockholm for two years until the Corona crisis and was enthusiastically celebrated there. The Landestheater Linz managed to obtain the rights for the German-language premiere of this hit musical – the director of the musical Matthias Davids staged it.

English

Wie Im Himmel by Kempe, From (2021/2021), Directed by Matthias Davids,, Conductor Juheon Han, Grosser Saal Musiktheater, Linz, Austria

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