The performance Nils og Blåmann was the premiere of a play adaptation by Barthold Halle and Gunnar Olram of the comic strip of the same name by Ivar Mauritz-Hansen and Sigurd Winsnes.
As a fifteen-year-old, Elisabeth Strøm played one of the queen's chambermaids in the People's Theater's Christmas performance of Snehvit og de 7 dvergene (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) in 1955.
[5] Strøm Henriksen had her formal debut as an actress in a performance of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Frogner Park in the summer of 1963.
In a review for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet, Paul Gjesdahl wrote that "As the prankster Puck, Elisabeth Strøm made her debut on the stage.
After playing to full houses in Oslo, the performance went on tour around the country in collaboration with the National Traveling Theater.