‘The Selu. The Musical ‘will have one more day at the Gran Teatro Falla

The premiere of the musical directed and scripted by the carnival José Luis García Cossío who, as announced this Tuesday, closes the Festival of Spanish Music of Cádiz, extends its presence in the city one more day through the collaboration of the City Council . Thus, the November 28 and 29 The Selu. The musical He will be playing at the Gran Teatro Falla for the “pride” of the architects of this second event that was presented this Wednesday at the Cadiz coliseum.

Thus, the mayor of Cádiz, José María González; the Councilor for Culture, Lola Cazalilla; the producer of the proposal, Manu Sánchez (16 steps); and Selu García Cossío himself have been in charge of advancing some master lines of a musical preserved of certain secrecy. “It is that if we count more we will have to put Spoiler. El Musical“, its creator complained with art,” the Stanislavski from Cádiz “, called the Sevillian comedian, who explained that the play is about”put the universe of characters in order“that El Selu has woven for more than 30 years of Carnival.

A musical that, as we have been able to select between one and the other statements, will last a little over an hour and a half – “yes, more, I would say a little more …” -, will also feature unpublished lyrics written for the occasion – “we will be able to hear what characters we met many years ago think about today” -, which will be music by the jazz group (a good part of La Canalla) led by the pianist and composer from Cádiz Javier Galiana – ” he has managed to make the Selu’s music sound as he imagined it in his head “- and that in the Falla it will be carried out using places” beyond the stage “as a scenic space.

Thus, as Sánchez anticipated, “we will know what are the ties between a Maruja and a Drunkard or a banker and La Pepi” in a plot that is presumed very natural considering that for García Cossío “all my characters are cooked in the same breeding ground, in that place that I affectionately call street fauna “. Characters whose development, as the councilor pointed out and the author and producer corroborated, “fell short” in the four 20-minute passes to which his life was limited in the Official Group Contest. “If Tina Turner has a musical, why won’t La Pepi have it?“, threw the author of ‘Viva La Pepi’.

Carnival as a quality mark

But in addition to “fulfilling a dream” with The Selu. The musical -because for El Selu and his family it was a “ruminated” idea for a “long time” that “the pandemic allowed” them to “fully build it”; and for the producer it has been “the dream come true of ever working for Selu” -, the proposal seek an even greater purpose.

“This is a work well done, with a high-profile playwright who is Selu García Cossío, with some great musicians, with a work behind him that passes many companies that we know”, certified Manu Sánchez who was hurt by the presentation that was held at the Manuel de Falla Spanish Music Festival when there was talk of the premiere of a version Atlantis “and in contrast, it was said” the premiere of El Selu. The musical. “And we must be careful with these things we fall into, as if the excellence of Falla was at one extreme and Carnival at another. And I tell you that Manuel de Falla if he could, would come to the musical to enjoy it, because let’s not forget that he composed for flamencos to sing “, he explained.

Thus, Sánchez hopes that Carnival, as a hallmark of a proposal, “instead of belittling it, which seems to be the current perception, would enhance it, that it would function as a mark of quality.” “With that intention we have worked on this work, with the aim that the comedy that is made from Cádiz competes with any otherThat it be one more genre of comedy, as I sincerely believe it is “, argued the producer who values ​​Selu” as one of the great geniuses “of the comic genre because in his carnival work he knew how to give one more pirouette and ascribe a whole repertoire to a character, introduce the theater in Carnival and make a universal humor “. “Selu is Cádiz, he makes humor from Cádiz, but he accepts to play the game in a universal way,” explained Sánchez, who trusts the effect of a musical made “from here for humanity”, as the carnival man says. “Amen”, the Sevillian closed his prayer.

Tour and tickets

Tickets to go to the first day of the premiere of The Selu. The musical (November 28) depend on the sale of tickets from the program of the Festival of Spanish Music of Cádiz, organized by the Junta de Andalucía. “The intention is that they are available throughout this Wednesday, November 3 or tomorrow Thursday at the latest “, explain sources from the Ministry of Culture. Sales channels are detailed in the festival website.

On the other hand, the localities for November 29, an appointment organized by the Cádiz City Council, are pending their introduction in the payment platform with which the Consistory works (bacantix) that will be held “in the next 48/72 hours“, shuffled Manu Sánchez.

From its premiere in Cádiz, the musical will start a tour “in large spaces“because we are going” big, “confirmed Manu Sánchez, who does not hide the” complicated “of fitting this proposal into a dramatic scene” in which a bottleneck has formed after the pandemic. “However,” the name of Selu García Cossío, synonymous with quality and excellence, has made it easier for us to put together a tour that will pass through Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, all the Andalusian capitals and that in summer will be in all the great open-air festivals “, he anticipated.

In fact, tickets for Madrid (EDP Gran Vía Theater) on December 15 and 16 are already on sale, as well as for Seville (FIBES) on December 17. There’s also confirmed dates in Pozoblanco (El Silo Theater, February 5), Fuengirola (Peace Palace, March 5), Granada (Congress Palace, March 13), La Línea (Congress Palace, March 25), Almería (Maestro Padilla, April 1), Huelva (Casa Colón, April 23), Córdoba (Teatro de la Arxequía, April 20), Bilbao (Euskalduna Palace, May 22), Malaga (Cervantes Theater, September 20 and 21) and Jerez (Bodegas González Byas, at the Tío Pepe Festival). “We will be putting the tickets for sale in each place as the dates get closer. But all the information will be available on the web that we have released today and on our social media profiles “.

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