Karlsson-on-the-Roof

Genre: Musical in 1 act

Language: Russian

Title: Karlsson-on-the-Roof

Duration: 85

Number of actions: 1

Date premiere: 05 November 2011

Age: 6+

Musical in 1 act
Libretto by Zhanna Zherder

Production Team:
Stage director Evgenia Teniakova
Musical director Boris Benkogenov
Set designer Natalia Khokhlova
Costume designer Natalia Gorodilina
Choreographer Valentina Ponomarenko
Coaches Svetlana Chernova
Olga Darvina
Anastasia Golik
Tatiana Kuzub
Nina Robak

Synopsis

The story of the Little Brother and Karlsson-on-the-Roof tells about the little boy who meets the World’s Best Karlsson who is always gay and eager to eat and to have fun. The Little Brother’s family and friends think that Karlsson is nothing but an imaginary friend, but all at once they meet him in the flesh.
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On a perfectly ordinary street in Stockholm, in a perfectly ordinary house, lives a perfectly ordinary family called Svantesson. There is a perfectly ordinary father and a perfectly ordinary mother and three perfectly ordinary children: Bettan, Bosse, and their Little Brother.
There is only one person in the entire house who is not ordinary, and that is Karlsson-on-the-Roof. He lives on the roof, Karlsson does. This alone is out of the ordinary. Things may be different in other parts of the world, but in Stockholm people hardly ever live in a little house of their own on top of a roof. But Karlsson does.