Helsinki City Theatre will have over 278,000 spectators in 2024 – Spring 2025 performances have an unprecedentedly good occupancy rate

In 2024, HKT’s repertoire featured a total of 39 different productions, of which 21 were premieres. A total of 735 performances were seen on the theatre’s five stages. In addition, more than 23,000 theatre friends participated in various audience outreach events and public events during the year.   The Moulin Rouge, which premiered in August and sold out almost all of its performances, attracted the most viewers during the year! Musical (65,555) on the big stage. On the Arena stage, the hilarious new comedy Surprise Guest received the most viewers , and on the main stage, the audience was particularly interested in Jerusalem (8,938), starring Santeri Kinnunen. Studio Pasila’s most watched performance was the dance performance Blood Wedding (5,350), a collaboration between Helsinki Dance Company and Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin . The favourite of the audience at the Swedish-speaking Lilla Teatern was the musical Katrina (6,249), which will return to the stage of Lilla Teatern for the spring of 2025 from 12 March. During the year, the stage of the current performance attracted a total of 2,250 spectators to Studio Pasila. The most popular performance was the contemporary puppet theatre performance Whatever Love Means (1,427 spectators). The spring 2025 programme has aroused the interest of the audience The advance sales of the spring 2025 performances are unprecedentedly good, and 65% of the spring tickets have already been sold and reserved as the season is just beginning. Popular performances on the big stage Moulin Rouge! The musical and My Brother the Lion’s Heart have got the audience moving, and both performances will continue in the repertoire in the autumn of 2025. At the beginning of the year, the premieres of Sinun, Margot, based on Meri Valkama’s bestselling novel, the unbridled and sensitive drama comedy Jenny Hill, Agatha Christie’s masterpiece And None Were Saved, and the apocalyptic musical comedy New Eden. Lilla Teatern’s spring premiere will be Skymning 41 – the story of Molly and Henry, based on Kjell Westö’s book.  In addition, on 20 March, Helsinki Dance Company’s dance performance DREAMER will premiere at Studio Pasila. The choreographers of the work are the internationally acclaimed Annamari Keskinen and Ryan Mason. On 4 April, Beauty and the Monsters, directed by award-winning top director Linda Wallgren, will premiere on the Small Stage in collaboration with the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. On the stage of the current performance on 29 April, the unruly Agora – two mermaids in an empty pool will premiere. The audience is once again very satisfied with the City Theatre According to a customer survey conducted for HKT’s customers in autumn 2024, theatregoers have once again been very satisfied with the City Theatre’s operations. HKT received an overall score of 6.2 in the survey (on a scale of 1–7). The respondents were particularly satisfied with the theatre’s recognition and the smoothness of ticket sales both in the online store and in the personal ticket sales service. The survey conducted by Innolink was answered by 6,082 customers who visited the Helsinki City Theatre between September and November 2024. Read the new Teatteriin magazine here.  Helsinki City Theatre ticket sales and customer service by phone (09) 394022 Mon-Fri 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ticket offices First line 2, Mon-Fri 12-17, Eläintarhantie 5, Sat (on performance days) 11-18 and one hour before the performance and Lippu.fi, Mon-Sat 9-21, Sun 10-18, tel. 0600 900 900 (2 €/min + local network charge) www.hkt.fi Photo of the press release Moulin Rouge! Musical. Photographer: Otto-Ville VäätäinenFurther information, media ticket reservations and interview requests: Communications Manager Kaisa Pelkonen, kaisa.pelkonen@hkt.fi, 040 552 3788Helsinki City Theatre, Ensi linja 2, 00530 Helsinki