Review: Rebecca

REBECCA – PASSION FOR EMOTIONS

Helsinki City Theatre successfully continues the series of wonderful musicals. This autumn’s musical Rebecca leaves no one cold. Great music, excellent singers and great sets. Kurt Nuotio’s direction is successful and the viewer lives from the romanticism of the beginning of the performance towards the dramatic dark moments and then towards the final climax.

In short, the plot is love, romance, and a former mistress haunted by the past. The soup is skilfully stirred up by the former mistress of the house’s confidant, Mrs. Danvers (Sari Ann Moilanen). When the master of the house, the widower Maxim de Winter (Kari Arfmann), falls in love with a servant girl (Sanna Majuri) and takes her to her manor, the “witch” of the house, Mrs. Danvers, cannot possibly digest her. An exciting game of cat and mouse begins, in which jealousy also interferes with the young couple’s coexistence.

The songs are wonderful to hear, the interpretations are excellent, and especially Sari Ann Moilanen’s interpretation of the title track makes cold shivers run down your spine – you get the feeling that Rebecca arrives in the hall from beyond the grave, so strong is the interpretation. I can’t resist mentioning Riitta Havukainen , whose role is relatively small, but in the final applause she still gets the attention she deserves.

The Helsinki City Theatre has once again shown that it is not worth going further than the sea to fish. The same musicals are performed in the world’s metropolises as in Helsinki, but the whole thing is just as dazzling to watch in Helsinki as anywhere else. Especially the fire at the end, where the whole stage burns down, is a demonstration of skills that are not immediately visible.