Two hours of irreverent comedy but also of musical virtuosity, in the show that brought Elio and the tense stories back to the Ponchielli theater last night, in a reunion that the public had been waiting for for a long time, entitled “I only have one tooth left and I’m trying to screw it back in” , directed by Giorgio Gallione. The theater was sold out, with many people coming from outside the province, for a concert-show in which the Elii show that they have not aged, neither as musicians nor as cabaret artists and without the need to reinvent their songs, many arrangements in fact follow the original versions .
Nine of the songs in the set list come from the album that brought them out of the niche of the nonsense scene in the early nineties – a collection with an unpronounceable title, “Italyan rum casusu çikti” – from “Vitello dai fatti di balsa” to “Urna”, passing for “Serfs”. There are many comic inserts between one song and another; the scenography is sober, the protagonists are them, in the quasi-original version, with the new entry of the maestro Vittorio Cosma, already in the scientific committee of the Corde dell’anima, in the part that could have been that of Rocco Tanica. And then Faso on bass, Cesareo on electric guitar, Christian Meyer, drums, Jantoman, keyboards, Paola Folli, voice and presence excellently integrated into the demented context. Honorable mention for Mangoni, irresistible in her disguises, from time to time imaginary animal, super young, stroller in sequins for “Pork and Cindy” (censored the ending).
For the rest, everyone is dressed in white, no wigs or disguises for Elio, who shows up in a 1920s suit, with Bermuda shorts and men’s garter belt in plain sight.
The audience goes into a frenzy when they sing Supergiovane and Born to be Abramo; and there is no shortage of references to the land of persimmons, with digs aimed at Italian vices rather than virtues.
And in the finale, the first encore “Out into the daylight”, a prog-rock song by former Genesis Mike Rutherford, seems to want to remind everyone, before leaving the theater after a concert full of gags and laughter, what kind of musicians are the Elians. gb
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2023-11-05 08:51:29
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