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Everything that comes from the entertainment factory disney It’s a bearer check and this show, made exclusively for Latin Americarecently released on the Buenos Aires billboard, reaffirms this opinion.
Once again, magic prevails over reality in this musical theater proposal in which for 75 minutes the history of the company is summarized on stage, through 80 songs. Some as emblematic as “An Ideal World”, from “Aladdin”, “How Far Do I Go”, from “Moana”, “There’s No Talking About Bruno”, from “Enchantment”, “Endless Cycle” from “The Lion King” , and “Libre soy”, from “Frozen”.
It begins when Mara (Lujan Blaksley), the leading character of the evening opens the title box and unites the different segments of the proposal, at various times with the help of the emblematic figures of Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto and Goofy, designed by Michael Curry and handled by skilled puppeteers.
Thus, the protagonist’s journey begins when the scenographic element opens, as if it were the fold-out storybooks of our childhood, and cartoonists and scriptwriters appear at work. What appears to be a path to the beginning quickly transforms into a cluster of surprises in which different eras mix to alter a non-chronological journey.
Two clarifications are worth. On the one hand, there is no linear story here, with a beginning, middle and end, but rather a slight common thread that celebrates the process.
artist’s transformer. There are one hundred years of uninterrupted enthusiasm that are captured on stage by a cast of young and talented people.
local interpreters, who are joined by a Venezuelan and a Uruguayan. On the other hand, it is more of a visual and auditory feast for the child in all of us than for the little ones. This is because much of what is seen and heard takes us back to distant historical productions of the factory such as
“Snow White”, “Pinocchio”, “Bambi”, “Cinderella”, “Lady and the Tramp” or “Mary Poppins”.
The creative areas, united by the dazzling production of Fever, Disney Theatrical Group and RGB, are the main columns on which the entire structure rests. The costume design by Nthabiseng Malaka and Sofía Di Nunzio, the lighting design by David Seldes and the set design by Thaddeus McWhinnie Phillips provide the ideal framework for the illusion to become embodied.
The solid musical direction of Gaspar Scabuzzo and the imaginative choreographies of Alejandro Ibarra also stand out.
