ABBA's Benny and Björn made a musical about starving Swedes—then performed it in Minnesota with actual descendants watching.
Documents the highlights of a concert version of the musical written by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, performed in Minnesota. Based on a series of novels detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century, we also meet some of the descendants to the emigrants.
Score
Benny's orchestrations hit like ABBA never left your feelings
Acting
Helen Sjöholm's Kristina will wreck you completely
Production
Real descendants in audience = meta-theatrical gut punch
Director
Björn Gunnarsson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Minnesota hosts the largest Swedish-American population in the US, making this performance a literal homecoming for a story about losing home.
The full musical took 4+ hours in Stockholm; this 60-minute concert version is essentially the 'greatest heartbreaks' edit.
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This is another proof for me that Swedish is *the* most beautiful germanic based language.
@ciriliaa 245
I have NO idea what he's singing but it's going straight to my heart. Gorgeous.
@bunnymad5049 186
Det här klippet och Helen Sjöholms "Du måste finnas" från samma tillfälle, måste typ vara två av de absolut bästa och mäktigaste klippen på hela youtube.
@malink2448 396
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