Thursday, July 30, 2009

Whats Something Like Jibjab?

Now the rock lands in theaters and becomes a musical Italian

With a little advance in this article, we had already guessed that sooner or later the big production would be thrown headlong on this missing piece of theater in Italy. In fact, the data imprinting to our show relies heavily on the use of songs and atmospheres from a vast musical landscape that has marked the pace a little in recent 30. I wonder if anyone will accept the challenge by proposing Love, foliia, death to Notre Dame?

Beauty and the Beast, Cats and The Forbidden Planet will contest the palm of the most watched show of the season. Four stocks that have had great success abroad come to us
The return to the American musical in style is the dominant presence in the posters of Italian theaters in the 2009-2010 season. With a significant variation. Marked by the massive invasion of the rock sound that dominates the architecture of the great mass event that every company dreams to score on that fateful run at the box office. The great anticipation for months advertised with the bass drum pushed to the nth degree, it focuses on four high-sounding titles. The first of which, incidentally, coincides with the reopening here in Milan's Piazza Piemonte National Theatre, closed for four years for substantial rehabilitation work. That, in lovingly taken care by the Stage Entertainment Dutchman Joop van den Ende, finally open up its doors on October 2nd with the Italian premiere of Beauty and the Beast, the big show, written and arranged by Alan Markel, which has already accounted for in all the world the beauty of 25 million viewers. Translated into our language and given, as on Broadway, directed by Glenn Casale to the wise, Beauty and the Beast, adapted from the popular Disney film, will remain on the bill until the equipment is required (the organizers think six months of programming a drum head). And relies entirely on two young stars, which is already established, such as Michel Altieri discovered years ago by Luciano Pavarotti, who wanted the star of Rent, the rock version of Puccini's La Bohème. An event that, on paper, is a formidable rival in the Forbidden Planet - The Rock Musical billboard is in the Sistine Chapel in Rome and on tour to Italy, stopping in Milan - Emerald production / Fan, Teatro Arcimboldi. Inspired by the cult film par excellence, whose protagonists were Walter Pidgeon in the role of the mad scientist in exile from the world with the beautiful daughter Anne Francis, the musical tells more than one granting horror and gigantic King Kong style a tale with a lot of freedom derived from Shakespeare's The Tempest. In which good and evil face off, no holds barred. Beautifully packed with great music ranging from the sixties revival of the Beach Boys hits of Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis, The Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton, at home full of awards including the prestigious Oliver Award, is shadowed, however, the road to success by veteran Cats.
Finally, We Will Rock You, the fourth title that will take the field to snatch the crown by popular acclaim, the show's most popular business in 2010. It will be presented in the Italian version, which Saverio Marconi, director and factotum the Society of Ranchi, finally managed to wrest the monopoly of the Americans, perplexing to the fact that the lyrics are derived verbatim from the poems of Thomas Stearns Eliot could adapt to the rhythms of jazz, swing and rock of course. A mixing desks that, with a soundtrack that goes back to the music of Queen adapted by Ben Elton as a veteran, having all the rage in London for six years in a row, will arrive in December Allianz Teatro di Assago. Where there is a predictable success of large proportions for a story set (again!) On an unknown planet where, as in Orwell's 1984, art and especially music dear to the youth is banned by a fierce Authority.
Henry Groppali

Friday, July 17, 2009

Scion Tc Supercharger

Thank you all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What can I say? Once again, tired but happy. It is not easy to leave on tour for amateur companies. It is not easy because we can not afford to stay on the right and left each time and then you have to be artists work in the morning and evening. This means odd hours and breaks his legs at the end because you are not only an artist but you're also fitter, worker, electrician ... And 'all started in Villa Strozzi, Tuesday 14 July, where under a scorching sun, we have transformed the stage into a stage where every 10 minutes we had to do mini showers to refresh. But that evening we were there, ready to welcome the unsuspecting public that is found a piece in front of the cathedral of Notre Dame, the characters of the novel, and we took them by the hand through a musical journey that has also become a bit of their history. In the end the applause of the audience frinfrescato our warm hearts, that as in every show of respect, they were tired but happy. But we could not distract too much because half a day we had to leave for Milan, and there is no friend to the audience expect ... Humbly we took possession of the Teatro Nuovo, also helped by the staff friendly and helpful, and we started building our history to better present the evening. The fate would have it, the technical equipment was not the best but so now, we have become accustomed, and it is because the difficulties that we can better in business. There was a lot of tension in the air, and perhaps the first act was not so pleasant, but not for the ear and the eye of the viewer, but only for my desire to always be at the top. But in the second we resumed our usual determination and let me tell you, class, going back to do what we do best: being an artist! During the show there was no applause for the big events, and perhaps that's a little crowded out there ... But in the end, the Milanese public, perhaps more accustomed to the theater, gave us an ovation and Ständige, never happened before, the demand for a last song. The boys are sitting in a semicircle on the stage behind Quasimodo (Fabrizio), which tenderly embraced Esmeralda (Dorothy) and did excite the audience cheering again. Handshakes and congratulations live, via a closed curtain and put the dream in wooden crates, ready to be opened at the earliest opportunity.

My personal thanks go to all of them who worked on this long trip, from the new Giuseppe employees, Mirko, Lucy, Sebastian, Cristian, James, the rest of the cast to which you have added new elements that have immediately felt at home, because basically this is the climate that exists in our group. A special and personal thanks to Barbara in a day of Easter that a cold winter sent the DVD to the New Theatre and has called into the scene with renewed vigor and then took care of the administrative part of the association, among thousands of entries of type VAT invoice, which is considered , net, gross ....
Thanks guys, as always, we do not know if it will come back on stage, but basically this is also the beautiful, even inspiring one of the most famous phrases of our culture ... "there is no certainty of tomorrow ...". A hug to all of you from my heart.


Massimo Miniati