1995 in theatre

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: 1995 musicals, 1995 plays, Kristina från Duvemåla, MacHomer, Jane Eyre, Zombies from The Beyond, After Miss Julie, Dracula, 49th Tony Awards, Him, Blasted, Dealer's Choice, Mortal Kombat: Live Tour, John & Jen, Victor/Victoria, Moon Over Buffalo, Songs for a New World, Indian Ink, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Mojo, Dirk, Swinging on a Star, A Christmas Carol, Seven Guitars, Sylvia, The Young Man From Atlanta, The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls, Skylight, Much Ado, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, The Steward of Christendom, Master Class, Jolson, Honour, Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, One Flea Spare, A Word From Our Sponsor, The Unexpected Man, Cloud Tectonics, Taking Sides, Blue Murder, The Cryptogram, The Stonemason, The Canterville Ghost, Akkaralli. Excerpt: Kristina från Duvemåla ("Kristina from Duvemåla") is a Swedish musical written by former ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus (lyrics) and Benny Andersson (music), based on a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century: The Emigrants, Unto a Good Land, The Settlers, and The Last Letter Home. The show premiered at the Malmö Opera and Music Theatre in Malmö, Sweden, on October 7, 1995 and received a rapturous welcome. The audience gave it a 10-minute standing ovation, while the critics unanimously praised it. Martin Nyström of Dagens Nyheter wrote that Andersson and Ulvaeus "created a great Swedish musical that thematically touches on the great questions of our time" and compared Andersson's musicality with that of Schubert, while Svenska Dagbladet's Carl-Gunnar Åhlén concluded that Björn Ulvaeus "succeeded in presenting the drama without getting bogged down, despite its almost Wagnerian length". Few years later, however, Dagens Nyheter reviewer Marcus Boldemann wrote that "Kristina från Duvemåla is not an A-class musical work". Subsequently, the musical was staged at Gothenburg Opera and then premiered at the Stockholm's Cirkus that was specially renovated for it. This production won four 1998 Guldmasken Theatre Awards (Swedish equivalent of Tony Award). Counting all three runs, which were almost continuous, interrupted only by summer vacations and hiatuses due to the production's physical moving, Kristina från Duvemåla ran for nearly four years (more than 650 performances in total), making it the second longest running musical in Swedish history. In 2001, a touring concert staging was presented featuring most of the original performers recreating their previous roles. All three original Swedish productions were directed by Lars Rudolfsson with set design by Tony Award-winner Robin Wagner and musical direction by Anders Eljas. The Original Cast triple CD set was released in