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Fresh Lady in Oslo




Nina Hammarklev and Kåre Conradi as Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady at Folketeatret, Oslo.  Foto Haakon Hoseth

 Fresh Lady in Oslo

Review by Torkil Baden. Photos: Haakon Hoseth

Review by Torkil Baden

My Fair Lady, musical by Alan Jay Lerner (text) and Frederick Loewe (music)

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After Bernhard Shaw`s “Pygmalion”

New production, premiere in Folketeatret, Oslo, February 1st 2013.

The new production is a knock out with revitalized music, strong personalites, and a talented cast.

Nina Hammarklev as Eliza. Foto Haakon Hoseth

OSLO: It is a challenging undertaking to fill Folketeatret, former home of the Norwegian Opera. The great hall swallows the sound, and it is also a commercial risk. The 1200 seats need to be occupied for a long time to cover productions expences.

The veteran production team did an impressive job with their refreshing staging of the same material at Oslo Nye Teater ten years ago. Now they have amplified their 2003-success and can expect substantial crowds.
Their achievement deserves new audiences

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Teaching the vocals to Eliza
. Left right Kåre Conradi. Foto Haakon Hofseth

The producers do however take some undeserved credit on one point: they announce that the director Svein Sturla Hungnes is responsible for the translation. The truth is that it largely follows the published translation of André Bjerke from the 1960-production in Oslo.

Artistic choreography by Marianne Skovly Aamodt, in My Fair Lady in Oslo. Nina Hammerklev flying with dancers. Foto Haakon Hoseth

Caricature

The director takes his characters all out to the point of caricature. It gives strong personalities and a lot of humour, but does not destroy the credibility.

Lise Fjeldstad as Mrs. Higgins, here at Ascot. Foto Haakon Hoseth

Nina Hammarklev is new in the title role. She has climbed upwards through a lot of productions during the last years, and she matches the major challenge as Eliza with great enthusiasm and professionalism, both as a singer an actress and with warmth and clearity.

Kåre Conradi knows the lines from last time, maybe a little too well. The voluminous dialogue parts pass by so smoothly that they sometimes are difficult to understand. But we do believe in this tyrant professor, slowly melting in companionship with the blossoming flower girl.

I´m gonna marry in the mornin´. Dennis Storhøi as Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady at Folketeatret. Foto: Haakon Hoseth.

Father Doolittle is always the main showpiece on stage. Like last time Dennis Storhøihas an uncredible energy and timing that turns everybody on. The image of the garbage collector gets an extra dimension through a whirlwind of garbage cans a lá Stomp.

Inger Teien as Freddys mother. Foto Haakon Hoseth

Chorus line

He is surrounded by a chorus line of a host of around twenty, partly from the major college of musical studies in Oslo, The Bårdar Academy. The result is an impressive virtuos dancing and singing.

Some of the talented students are also versatile instrumentalists, and it creates a colorful staging when they join in as street musicians.

(The major use of students instead of a full professional cast has sparkled understandable anger from the Union of Dancers.)

The numerous cast does fill the large stage, and choreography and staging is heavily dependent on this “big show”-approach. Atle Halstensens new musical score is based on the former production by Roy Hellvin (uncredited in the program). The sound of the small orchestra of only 8 musicians is enlarged through the combination with prerecording, and the result is hard hitting, sometimes very hard.

“With a contemporary sound, humour, showdance and evergreen music this Lady is a winner”.

 

Main characters:

Nina Hammarklev – Eliza Doolittle
Kåre Conradi – Henry Higgins
Lise Fjeldstad – Mrs. Higgins
Mari Maurstad – Mrs. Pearce
Dennis Storhøi – Alfred P. Doolittle
Finn Schau – Pickering
Sindre Postholm – Freddy
Inger Teien – His mother

Production team:
Svein Sturla Hungnes – direction
Marianne Skovly Aamodt – choreography
Atle Halstensen – musical director (including new music and arrangements)
Translations: Andrè Bjerke and Svein Sturla Hungnes.

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Please also enjoy our review from My Fair Lady at Théâtre du Chatelet in 2010 at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2010/12/outstanding-my-fair-lady-in-paris/

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