The comedy “Cut the Red Cable” has been on the Madrid billboard for eleven uninterrupted years.
The Lion King the curtain raised for the first time in Lope de Vega Theater Madrid on October 20, 2011. cut the red thread it landed on the capital’s billboard only two months later. But during the pandemic, the Julie Taylor“closed one year and seven months,” he explains Carlos Ramoscreator, director and performer of this “improvised comedy” that continues to fill the seats of the Small Gran Va theater. “We only stayed for three months, that’s when we overtook them. It all depends on how you measure it. If you do it for weeks, like we do, we have been a lot longer than them. In functions and spectators no more. But in longevity“, emphasizes.
Laughter continues to mark the future of the shows. There is no script, so improvisation becomes the key tool that brings a unique advantage: the audience repeats… and repeat again. “There are people who have come to visit us, and I’m not exaggerating, 20 times. They repeat themselves because every day is different. One day they come with their boyfriend and another with their parents. Then the parents come with friends. And that’s how the spectators multiply exponentially. I think we haven’t stopped doubling down year after year, “she says.
In Madrid, Ramos shares the stage with Jos Andr y Solomon. “For us the problem is never not knowing what to say, but rather ‘let’s see when it’s my turn.’ So is being with peers find your holeto be able to contribute to what we are all creating “, explains Ramos, who was andHe is the first comedian with eight monologues to air on Paramount Comedy since 2000.
They do seven shows a week – “because we can’t do more, physically we can’t get enough”, he confesses – and this allows the work to “improve every day”. “On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays we do double. And from show to show we learn. We know each other better. And we always listen to the audience. This is one of the keys. We get what they like and you go further there.” . This way of operating meant that some of the scenes they loved due to their difficulty were left out because “the power of laughter” was not what was expected. They rehearsed half a hundred different scenes than those eight are left “which are the cream. Ideal“.
Thanks to the success achieved in the golden mile of theater in Spain, cut the red thread has become a franchise that since last June has caused laughter even among the stalls of the Apollo Theater from Barcelona. there are the comedians Ruben Tejerina, MayBocount y Manu Prada those in charge of giving life to the “most explosive comedy”, with the aim of “being generalists” and pleasing as many people as possible, as in the case of Madrid. “The audience of the comedy, of standing, is more youthful and cosmopolitan, perhaps less used to theater “, says Ramos.” The audience of improvisation is more nocturnal, more alternative. But we, being in Gran Va, where so many people who come for tourism walk, we have come a very general audience: families, the elderly but also children, foreignersYes … The type of audience has expanded compared to what we had at the beginning. We’ve gained an audience that doesn’t usually go into comedy or improvisation, “she concludes.
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