Eturivin kuningattaren blogi, 17.10.2023
Review
Satu Paloniemi
The Little Mermaid has been directed by Samuel Harjanne, who has recently gained a huge reputation among musicals. Solid expertise really shows in the end result! The story progresses smoothly, the whole thing is controlled in every way and absolutely entertaining. It is easy to immerse yourself in the story and forget about everyday life.
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Kodin Kuvalehti, 6.9.2023
Review
Sanna Tyry
Broadway and the West End, shake! A world-class Disney musical will be performed in Hakaniemi, Helsinki. Yasmine Yamajako is the charming and peppery mermaid Ariel, Aleksi Johansson is the funny and skilled little fish Splash and Sanna Saarijärvi is the perfectly scary sea witch Ursula. The singing is wonderfully loud and the magic of the fairy tale is contagious, although it is a vain hope that the prince and princess will not end up getting married head-on.
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Kirsin Book Club, 20.8.2023
Review
Kirsi Ranin
“The whole thing was great, enjoyable, emotional and captivating. The visual cannon is incredibly rich, the tropical sea color spectrum is stunning to watch. The crowd scenes are masterful.”
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Isyyspakkaus.com, 20.8.2023
Review
Tommi Koivisto
Summer is coming to an end, but that just means it’s time to open a wonderful cultural autumn! And it couldn’t have started more magnificently, as this week we got to see the re-premiere of The Little Mermaid at the Helsinki City Theatre.
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Bibbidi Bobbidi Book, 15.9.2020
Review
Laura Kuivalahti
Often, after an impressive theatrical performance, you sigh that you should see this again. In practice, however, that dream usually remains just a daydream after the final applause, because there are so few free evenings and so many interesting theatre performances in life that there is no time for repeat rounds. Except once in a while.
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Kultturelli matkalaukussa -blogi, 18.10.2019
Review
Päivi Autio
Last week I was in Helsinki for a couple of days on a ventilation and theater trip. In the previous post, there is a story about the play Angry Widow, the premiere of which I was able to attend in cooperation with the Helsinki City Theatre. Another performance I went to see on my trip to Helsinki was the musical The Little Mermaid also at the Helsinki City Theatre. I had bought a ticket for this already in the spring.
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Eeva, 2.10.2019
Review
Outi Rastas
All the shades of the rainbow and the latest theatre technology are in use when the Disney musical The Little Mermaid takes over the main stage of the Helsinki City Theatre.
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Kulttuurielämää Helsingissä -blogi, 20.9.2019
Review
Tuire Arjava
For once, a performance that fully lived up to the expectations placed on it! In Helsinki City Theatre’s The Little Mermaid , I wasn’t even bothered by the fact that Disney completely dictates what national theatres are allowed to do with the story.
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Antakee armoa -blogi, 15.9.2019
Review
Riikka Heinonen
Oops, it’s autumn! It’s pretty wonderful to come back here to tell you what’s going on, starting with the musical The Little Mermaid, which we got to experience this weekend. Two media tickets were received for the performance, the rest of the company’s tickets were purchased as usual.
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Musaa ja kulttuuria -blogi, 13.9.2019
Review
Anna-Elena Pääkkölä
On HKT’s hill, families, young and old, mothers, fathers, grandfathers, and enthusiastic starry-eyed girls and boys escape the rain indoors. And one cynical thirty-five-year-old who, due to his work stress, wondered if this Disney’s Finnishized magic could break this incipient autumn blues. Well, the blues was replaced by Alan Menken’s classic tunes, which bring a smile to your face for many reasons. (Sometimes I’ll explain musically why Part of your world is such a good song.) The original Little Mermaid was released when I was five years old. The girl next door had a VHS of it, and I borrowed it from her all the time; when he got bored, I took 80% of my weekly allowance to a nearby R-kioski, which always borrowed the same video for a few days at a time. At the age of 12, I got my first Ariel toys, my favorite was a seashell that bubbled in the bathtub with the help of a bubble tablet. (How many 12-year-olds buy effervescent tablets with their weekly allowance?)
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Kirsin Book Club, 12.2.2019
Review
Kirsi Ranin
So when the calypsophobia of The Little Mermaid starts playing in the Waves, the memories take you back to your own daughters’ childhood at the turn of the millennium. We watched Disney’s The Little Mermaid video, listened to a fairy tale tape and played with Ariel Barbie. The smaller one chose the Ariel cap when you could only get one product from the Disney store.
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Kodin kuvalehti , 18/2019
Review
Ulla Ahvenniemi
After all, I was expecting something great. I knew that the costumes were wonderful and the set design was ambitious, that The Little Mermaid was the biggest musical at the Helsinki City Theatre. For the first ten minutes or so, I watched with admiration how wonderfully the undersea world has been created, how the mermaids tremendously wag their tails and hands, and how smoothly the stage moves from under the sea to the surface.
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Suomen kuvalehti, 36/2019
Review
Päivi Ängeslevä
The largest musical production ever seen in Finland. As an instructor
Samuel Harjanne, who is especially known for the hit musical Kinky Boots. Expectations
The premiere of the highly marketed The Little Mermaid was high.
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HS, 30.8.2019
Review
Mari Koppinen
Director Samuel Harjanne and the musical’s huge crew had created such a dazzling fairy tale on stage that reality became blurred. The brain played tricks, the whole mind and body were pulled into another dimension for a moment. To the realm of imagination.
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Visually, The Little Mermaid is probably the most handsome theatre ever seen in Finland. Spectacular (and funny!) crowd scenes are marched onto the stage with buckles: sailors, rococo gentlemen, kitchen staff, an army of seagulls. There are video projections, wow experiences, magic. Endless silk and different shades of turquoise.
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Ilkka ja Pohjalainen, 3.9.2019
Review
Anne Laurila
The musical The Little Mermaid, which had its Finnish premiere at the Helsinki City Theatre on Thursday, is such a wonderful experience that words are almost not enough to describe it.
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Unelmien aika -blogi, 31.8.2019
Review
Johanna Sipponen
The premiere of The Little Mermaid musical was celebrated at the Helsinki City Theatre on 29.8.2019! With the wave of a magic wand, two young people appeared on stage, struggling with the tight grip of their parents’ values. One is tempted to abandon sailing at sea, while another is tempted to live on land. The young people fall in love with each other in the collision of these two worlds. At first, Erik is so enchanted that he can’t see beyond his nose. He is only looking for a mystical voice when he should be listening to the whole. He learns to trust the language of movement together with Ariel.
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Kielipuolen päiväkirja, 30.8.2019
Review
Matti Saarela
This is what children’s theatre should be like. Let’s do as much as possible and use all the know-how and resources that a big company has for the production.
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Teatterikärpäsen puraisuja -blogi, 1.9.2019
Review
Tarja Kilpeläinen
First of all, I have to say that get your ticket to The Little Mermaid now. They are guaranteed to sell like hot rocks and if you feel that it is expensive, every euro is worth it and you are guaranteed to get your money’s worth.
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Isyyspakkaus -blogi, 31.8.2019
Review
Tommi Koivisto
This year’s major musical at the Helsinki City Theatre is The Little Mermaid, which is based on Disney’s classic film of the same name. The premiere of the musical was on Thursday, and I was able to watch the premiere performance together with The Lady and Daughter.
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Sateenkaarenmaalari -blogi, 31.8.2019
Review
Elisa Helenius
Phew, I almost missed this Disney musical! I hadn’t checked the start time of the performance, and I automatically assumed that the performance would start at seven, as theatre performances usually start.
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Turun Sanomat, 30.8.2019
Review
Irmeli Haapanen
The absolute queen of the spectacle of the season is here! I dare say so, even though autumn has barely begun yet. The director of The Little Mermaid, Samuel Harjanne, emphasizes the content of the work in the script: “—Both Ariel’s body and the world around her prevent her from being who she is. This resonates with the modern world
and genders, and is the most important theme of the musical.”
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Liisan seikkailut -blogi, 29.8.2019
Review
Liisa Talvitie
A fairy tale, the realization of dreams and the victory of good, that is what we need in this chaotic, depressing time in many ways.
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Cocoa etsimässä, 6.9.2023
Review
Arna Grym
Last year, just before Christmas, Friidu and her cousin Pikku Ystäväinen, who is a few years older, went to Studio Pasila to see the Christmas play Saiturin joulu for the whole family. Since then, for a whole nine months, we have been playing orphan girl almost every day. So the new game was already more than welcome.
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Saran kotikolo, 31.8.2023
Review
Sara Räisänen
“It’s great to see major productions like The Little Mermaid right here in my hometown, and they don’t lose to big Broadway productions on any level. The sets, costumes and dance numbers build the performance as much as the actors themselves. The wonderfully constructed underwater world, the mermaid who actually swims in the water, i.e. floats in the air, and the hide-and-seek between the kitchen staff and the crab, have been built with skill and ambition.”
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Etelä-Suomen Sanomat, 20.8.2023
Review
Ilkka Kuosmanen
“The Little Mermaid returned to Helsinki sweeter than ever.”
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Naiselo, 19.8.2023
Review
Kaisa Virtanen
Helsinki City Theatre’s musical The Little Mermaid deserved its re-premiere. The performance is an experience that will be remembered for a long time – whether the viewer is a child or an adult.
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Thoughts of a ticket holder -blogi, 15.10.2019
Review
Heli Virtanen
Like so many children of the 90s, Disney’s The Little Mermaid has a big place in my heart. Disney’s movie musicals have had a big impact on my falling in love with musicals, and The Little Mermaid is no exception, even though I never owned it on VHS. I borrowed the cassette from the library whenever possible and brushed the red hair of my Ariel Barbies, hoping to own the same ones myself. As a teenager, I also actively followed the stage version landing on Broadway, because, well, I followed any Broadway news at the time. I listened to the recording of the musical often and even tapped through one bootleg. That’s why seeing the Helsinki City Theatre’s production was a no-brainer for me, but at the same time, I thought I knew what awaited me. I was wrong.
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Aku Ankka, 9.10.2019
Review
Anna Hietaneva
Right at the beginning of the performance, I notice that a permanent smile sticks to my face. The viewer is led into a charming underwater world filled with dance, song and colorful sea creatures. Cheerful and impressive musical numbers follow one another, but those familiar with the story know that there are also less blissful moments in store. The musical is not an identical copy of the film, and many new songs and surprising solutions are heard in the theatre hall. Visually, the performance is pleasing to the eye, and different milieus – such as the Kingdom of Triton and the castle’s kitchen – are excellently executed.
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Kapselityttö-blogi, 25.9.2019
Review
Janna Hartonen
Säde, 17 years old, is a Disney fan. A big Disney fan. So when I spotted last spring that the Helsinki City Theatre’s autumn programme would include the Disney musical The Little Mermaid, there was no doubt that we would go to see it. Of course!
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Maaseudun tulevaisuus, 16.9.2019
Review
Laura Kuivalahti
The Little Mermaid is one of Disney’s most beloved and legendary musicals. We are used to seeing a colourful undersea world in an animated film, where
Ariel swims with her red hair flowing with her fish friends.
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Eeva Blogit, Naiselo 45+, 13.9.2019
Review
Kaisa Virtanen
Spectacular, imaginative costumes, the use of modern technology and fast-paced action. Helsinki City Theatre’s investment this season, The Little Mermaid musical, is a true magic of theatre. A perfect fairy tale.
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Reader, why did I marry him? -blogi, 12.2.2019
Review
Omppu Martin
The Little Mermaid from Copenhagen is very small. It is 1.25 meters long and weighs 175 kilograms. The Helsinki City Theatre’s The Little Mermaid, on the other hand, is very, very big. That’s what it is, especially visually and ursually.
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Kovaa ja kaunista -blogi, 11.9.2019
Review
Satu Sorsa
A week ago, a friend and I went to see a new, wonderful performance at the Helsinki City Theatre (later HKT): The Little Mermaid. Tickets to the performance were given to us as cooperation tickets, a big thank you for that. I had to give myself time to digest what I had seen, it was so wonderful that now I can only write. Basically, the story is probably familiar to many, so I won’t go into the plot or go into it here, but I’ll focus more on what I saw on stage.
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Turun Seutusanomat, 9.9.2019
Review
Janica Vilen
Helsinki City Theatre does its best
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Kulttuuritoimitus, 5.9.2019
Review
Sirpa Pääkkönen
The Little Mermaid is one of the most thrilling fairy tales by H.C. Andersen , if not the most thrilling. Like many fairy tales, it also hides wisdom and deep emotions.
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Salonjokilaakso, 4.9.2019
Review
Kimmo Lehto
Helsinki City Theatre’s musical The Little Mermaid is big by many standards. According to information received in advance, the musical in question is the largest financial investment the theatre has made in its history. I have to admit that you can see it.
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Riffi, 2.9.2019
Review
Tommi Saarela
Theatre as a genre is in a tight spot. In an age where home receivers cover the end wall of the living room and the surrounding screens capture the viewer’s grip, theatres must also try to rise to the challenge in order to meet the needs of an increasingly experience-seeking audience. And with it, the stands on the big stages.
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HBL, 31.8.2019
Review
Mats Liljeroos
The myth of the mermaid who wants to become a human being, familiar in many cultures, has found its way into opera – including Dvorák’s Rusalka – as well as literature and, through H.C. Andersen’s beloved fairy tale The Little Mermaid, has also made its way into popular culture. But does she have any relevance to today’s world?
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Man Made Lifestyle, 31.8.2019
Review
Karri Harju
I had nostalgic feelings to come and see the film with my goddaughter, as The Little Mermaid is the first feature film I’ve seen on the big screen. For my goddaughter, this was not the first time in the theatre, but it was on the big stage of HKT, so I could sense a bit of the same feelings as about 30 years ago.
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Tunnetila -blogi, 1.9.2019
Review
Nina Varis
On Wednesday, I saw a clip of the Helsinki City Theatre’s new major musical The Little Mermaid on Yle news. How great everything looked! The underwater world looked real, everything was wonderfully colourful and Ariel swimming in the water moved smoothly up and down the stage with her tail.
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Ääni katsomossa -blogi, 1.9.2019
Review
Pirjo Puukko
The Little Mermaid is guaranteed to be the main attraction of the Helsinki City Theatre. The production has been expensive and the result is a dazzlingly spectacular spectacle. Thanks to modern technology, the whole is so genuinely set in the sea that it is easy for the viewer to experience the underwater nature of the events. There are many seemingly impossible tricks offered to the small and slightly older viewers. How on earth does Ariel swim from the bottom of the sea up towards the ceiling of the stage and in the next moment she is down on a rock, the surface of the sea on the floor of the stage? And how realistically the three-dimensional jellyfish flocks rise towards the surface.
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Länsi-Uusimaa, 1.9.2019
Review
Kaarina Naski
The boy from Lohja succeeds in the role of Splash
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Kotiliesi, 30.8.2019
Review
Annina Pennonen
Disney’s musical The Little Mermaid has finally arrived in Finland! The musical, which premiered on Broadway in New York in 2008 and is based on a Disney film and fairy tale by Uncle H.C. Andersen, is absolutely mesmerizing to watch for all ages.
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