#kaupunginteatteri

[tuskanniki]

I know nobody believes us Finnish Gelphie truthers who were there in May 2011, but I don't care, I make memes to make fun of myself anyway.

[fyeahfinnishmusicaltheatre]

Welcome to the Moulin Rouge!

Scenes from Helsingin kaupunginteatteri's upcoming production of Moulin Rouge! with Risto Kaskilahti as Zidler, Yasmine Yamajako as La Chocolat, Laura Allonen as Nini, Raili Raitala as Arabia and Samuli Saurén as Baby Doll.

Photos by Otto-Ville Väätäinen.

[my-friend-meowth]

Last month we went to theater to see The Black Rider because my mom got tickets from her friend

Väliaika, kahvia ja pullaa

I liked it, except WHY THE ROE DEER HAD LONG TAIL LIKE WHITE-TAILED DEER? IT WAS VERY CLEARLY ROE DEER (size, antlers, head shape). ROE DEER TAIL IS 2-4CM LONG. AND IT DIDN'T HAVE WHITE RUMP.

Lahden kaupunginteatteri Kirkkokatu 14 15140 Lahti

[ruttotohtori]

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Somessa ja teatterille tulleissa yhteydenotoissa alkoi kuohua kirjoituksen julkaisemisen jälkeen. Vihaisia viestejä tuli paikallisilta ja kautta Suomen, muun muassa Kuopiosta ja Tampereelta. Viesteissä teatterin toimintaa ja näytelmän esittämistä nuorille kritisoitiin aggressiiviseen sävyyn. Teatterilaisia muun muassa haukuttiin pedofiileiksi ja kehotettiin häpeämään.

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Kaapro kertoo, että teatteri reagoi epäasiallisiin viesteihin tekemällä Facebookissa ilmiantoja, aggressiivisimmat kommentoijat estettiin ja lopulta Nummisuutariin liittyvistä postauksista otettiin kommentointimahdollisuus pois. – Se provosoi muutamia soittajia. Tuntemattomiin numeroihin emme alun jälkeen enää vastanneet.

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Osansa ovat saaneet näyttelijöiden ohella muukin henkilökunta.

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Siis ihan käsittämätönta toimintaa aikuisilta (?) ihmisiltä -_-

[briarquartz]

The Little Mermaid Live by Helsinki City Theatre

[veetohka]

Turun Cabaretin Seremoniamestari 💫💫

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri - theatre group in Helsinki, Finland

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“They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart.”

― William Butler Yeats

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Elina Miettinen

Elina Miettinen, “Angry Bird”, choreo by Juha Kirjonen, 2013 Lappeenrannan Balettigaala Lappeenranta Ballet Gala, Lappeenrannan Kaupunginteatteri, Lappeenranta, Finland (August 24, 2013).

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[fyeahfinnishmusicaltheatre]

Helsingin kaupunginteatteri is the Finnish theatre involved in this coproduction. There is no date for the Finnish premiere yet, but the theatre has confirmed that in time, this production of Frozen will be coming to Helsinki!

Oh my god Det Norske Teatret (The Norwegian Theatre) is doing Frozen the musical this fall

and Mimmi Tamba who played Nabulungi will play Elsa! And Ina Svenningdal from Skam will play Anna!!

It's gonna be a new version of the musical made in a nordic collaboration between theatres in Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway

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[starlene]

A list of Finnish productions of The Addams Family the musical (incl. professional, community, and school productions)

2013: Tampereen Työväen Teatteri, Tampere [professional]

2015: Oulun teatteri, Oulu [professional]

2016: Tiirismaan lukio, Lahti [high school]

2019: Musiikkiteatterikoulu Skene, Helsinki [community]

2019: Kaarinan Nuorisoteatteri, Kaarina [community]

2020: Rantasalmen Nuorisoteatteri, Rantasalmi [community]

2021: Vaskivuoren lukio, Vantaa [high school]

2021: Jyväskylän kaupunginteatteri, Jyväskylä [professional]

2021: Munkkiniemen yhteiskoulu, Helsinki [high school]

2022: Teatterikorkeakoulu, Helsinki [university]

2022: Kotkan Kaupunginteatteri, Kotka [professional]

2023: Seinäjoen kaupunginteatteri, Seinäjoki [professional]

2023: Viikin normaalikoulu, Helsinki [high school]

2024: Salon lukio, Salo [high school]

2024: Ruokolahden Musiikkiteatteriyhdistys, Ruokolahti [community]

2024: Keravan lukio, Kerava [high school]

2024: Porin lukio, Pori [high school]

2025: Eurajoen teatterinuoret, Eurajoki [community] [upcoming]

2025: Vantaan Näyttämö, Vantaa [community] [upcoming]

2025: Turun Kaupunginteatteri, Turku [professional] [upcoming]

Just to prove that I'm not exaggerating when I say everybody has done it here already. I'm not even 100% sure this list is complete, but it's what I could find. That's 20 Finnish Addamses so far, if you didn't count them already. (Let me know if you know about other productions.)

For context: in Finland, the high school musical theatre scene is not nearly as robust as it is in the US. Only some high schools have musical programmes. So, looking at this and keeping in mind that some of the community productions have been produced in co-operation with local high schools... I don't know how many high schools do musicals around Finland, but looking at this, it certainly feels like at least a third of them have done The Addams Family already.

For further context: in 2024, Finland had 5 619 399 inhabitants. That means we've got one production of The Addams Family the musical for every 280 970 Finns. Sure, the theatres would run out of space fast if every single one of those people decided to go see their allocated Addamses – but when you substract babies, the people that are not interested in musicals at all, and the people who hate The Addams Family in particular... I just think there's plenty of The Addams Family available for everyone interested, even without any professional, publicly funded theatres investing their resources in this particular musical.

Searching for all the Finnish Addamses, I noticed one of the high school productions was credited as one single student's high school theatre diploma. Of course, that student had other people onstage with them – but if a high school can licence this so one singular student can get their diploma, it must be a very cheap musical to licence indeed. Which is great for community and school theatres, really! I see why they want to do it; it's got plenty of roles for a variety of performers and fun aesthetics. Good for them for getting to do a musical without bankrupting themselves.

But the professional theatres, man. I really have nothing but disdain for them, and for this musical when staged in a professional setting. It's simply not a good musical, not even an okay one, nor is it a good adaptation of The Addams Family. It's a bland, boring, heteronormative La Cage aux Folles ripoff, and while it may be a good vehicle for community theatres to show off their talents, for professionals... Choosing to stage this particular musical has nothing to do with artistic ambition or wanting to give the audience something interesting; it's all about choosing something cheap based on a familiar IP to get butts on seats.

Which would be okay for a private for-profit theatre, but when you're doing it with taxpayer money... I just don't think it's a really great look. I know times are hard and the theatres need to make their money because the public funding doesn't cover all costs, but even so. Staging the 20th Finnish production of The Addams Family after several nearby-ish high school and community theatres have already done it... Was there seriously nothing else at the bottom of the barrel for them to scrape?

[gorbigorbi]

Anna Tsygankova and Giorgi Potskhishvili,  "Don Quixote", choreography by Aleksandr Gorsky after Marius Petipa, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, music by Ludwig Minkus, 2023 Lappeenrannan Balettigaala Lappeenranta Ballet Gala, Lappeenrannan Kaupunginteatteri, Lappeenranta, Finland (August 26, 2023)

Photo © Lappeenrannan Balettigaala - Lappeenranta Ballet Gala

[tuskanniki]

THEY MADE OUT ON STAGE?????? (Re FINNISH WICKED???)

They did!! I wish I could prove it somehow, but alas, I can't </3 Me and a couple of other finnish Wicked fans have told about this before but nobody really took us seriously. Honestly, can't blame them since there's no footage of it. But yeah, Elphaba and Glinda full on kissed after finishing For Good (or "Tuun aina muuttumaan" in finnish) and apparently it was planned, since both of the leading ladies were all smug and satisfied about it.

[fyeahfinnishmusicaltheatre]

Joel Mäkinen as the Duke of Monroth and Jennie Storbacka as Satine in Helsingin kaupunginteatteri's production of Moulin Rouge!

Photo by Otto-Ville Väätäinen.

[rakkaudella3zra]

i ran out of #helsingin kaupunginteatteri posts to scroll.. :(

[mark-vaisanen]

Lucy Kirklund "The Childern / Lapset" Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri.

Pienoismalli

[fangirl-erdariel]

Yeah different to the musical, the musical's never been performed in Finland (despite having had a Finnish band involved in making the songs originally). It'd be cool to see the musical someday tho! But this one was a play, no songs unfortunately because of some rights issues I haven't been able to find any details about except that one of the rights holders said they couldn't have any songs or singing (could clearly quote the poems tho, so long as it wasn't sung). Though they did have like, apparently a-big-name-in-Finland composer writing the score, and a live orchestra performing it, so the music was still really great. but i always miss the songs in adaptations...

It's not even the first LOTR stage adaptation to be done in Finland, or the first that I've seen! Personally I've also seen a LOTR play by Turun kaupunginteatteri in 2018, which was also about 4 hours long, but it didn't include Faramir or Denethor. I remember really loving it too, though. There's always just something really magical about seeing LOTR come alive on stage.

Then there's a number of other LOTR plays that have been done in Finland (it's honestly kind of hilarious given that Finland isn't that big of a country, and LOTR is honestly an insane thing to try and adapt on stage. like it can work very well, obviously, but I still think it's a little bit insane), but I think the one that gets brought up the most when news articles talk about the new stage adaptations, is the one done by Ryhmäteatteri for the summer theater in Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, that they did in summer 1988 and 1989. My mom (she was a teenager at the time and saw it with her family on both summers) says that one was about six hours long, but I haven't really asked her a lot of the details on what that included or left out about the story. I know that one included some of the songs, though (the album with the songs can still be found on Spotify, and they've been uploaded on youtube. some of them are really good, some i don't care for), and I believe the same music, including the songs, were used in a couple other stage adaptations in the very early 00s. Also, the 1988-1989 play was basically what the 1993 tv miniseries (that's honestly not very good but i'm still pissed off at the Estate for refusing to negotiate with Yle for renewal of the broadcast rights, despite Yle allegedly having made several attempts over the years) was based on; it had the same actors for the most part, and the same costumes and music and stuff

anyway, sorry for rambling, as an apology, here's two photos of Faramir in the Tampere adaptation:

ok this is random, but iirc you're a Faramir enjoyer, and I've just been thinking abt this nonstop for the past more than a day now. but. I went to see the LOTR play by Tampereen Teatteri (in Tampere, Finland) woth my folks on the 21st of December. And while obviously a four-hour stage adaptation has very limited space to tell the story, they did manage to include the Gondor plot at enough length to have Faramir and Denethor as actual named characters.

And the take on Faramir was just... like. he was a lot more angry, had a lot more of that sharp edge, than the typical depiction of Faramir.

and just. yeah. it was such an unexpected thing, but I think it worked? like i liked it. it was new, it was interesting, it made for a really distinct interpretation of the character despite how little time he actually had on stage, and it's still something that makes sense for him in its way

like i'm probably not gonna entirely pivot my take on Faramir in any future fanfic i might write, but i might play with some more hints of that as flavoring, at some point

and yeah idk sorry again i just wanted to ramble to someome haha

- @fangirl-erdariel

hiii I most certainly am a faramir enjoyer! woah that's so cool?!? FOUR hours??? that's amazing omg I didn't know that was a thing! this is different to the musical, right?

AAHHH bitchy faramir rise!!!!!! imo that's a portrayal that's closer to book!faramir than the pj films? when denethor says he wishes faramir and boromir's placed had been exchanged, it says that "for a moment faramir's restraint gave way" (so he was restraining himself and showing more respect and obedience etc than he was truly feeling), and then he tells denethor that actually once faramir did listen to him and that resulted in boromir's death. so....... dad it's your fault 🫵

so yeah I definitely see some anger and sharpness there! among other things of course, but I'm really glad they tapped into that as, like you said, it's (unfortunately) not a common take! thanks for sharing!!! <33