While the Tívoli theater is hosting the last season of La cage de las locas at Tívoli, after five years of resounding success performing throughout Spain, Àngel Llàcer and Manu Guix are already warming up for the next production, which will premiere in autumn. On this occasion, the chosen musical is The Producers, which was born from the 1967 Mel Brooks film, became a musical adapted by Brooks himself and Thomas Meehan, with music by Brooks and Glen Kelly, and was It premiered on Broadway in 2001.
“It is the natural spectacle that we had to do now –explains Llàcer–. We started with La Cage de las Locas, we continue with Little Shop of Horrors and Singing in the Rain, and now The Producers will arrive, which has La Cage's sense of humor and the spectacular Broadway numbers of Singing..."
It is the fourth production that the couple of creators have made with Nostromo Live and "it will be the most ambitious, spectacular and most expensive production of the four", announces the producer Jordi Sellas, with a budget of more than 2.7 million that has been Singing in the rain, which continues on tour in several Spanish cities.
The story told by The Producers is that of two producers who want to make the worst show in history, to make it an absolute failure and thus lower the curtain on opening day to go to Rio de Janeiro with all the money they have collected from subsidies and so on. For this purpose, they hire the worst professionals, like a Nazi playwright or an actress who can't speak, but despite everything, the show ends up being a great success and everything changes”, sums up Llàcer.
“Mel Brooks, who was Jewish, wanted to do Springtime for Hitler, but they wouldn't buy it. He then makes The Producers, and makes her come out within this work, ”he continues. "It's not a well-known title, but we have a challenge, like when we did La Jaula, which wasn't very well-known either."
Guix declares that “music recalls the golden age of Broadway musicals and makes one dream”. The musician considers that it is a "very difficult score, because there is a lot of level in the choir numbers, and we will perform it with a dozen musicians".
Seals reveals that there is "a lot of Nazi symbology, it reaches the limit", and Llàcer adds: "Luckily they don't show it on TV3, because swastikas appear and they would shut us down", he ironically refers to the censorship of the Zona franca program.
Today the tickets for the previous performances with discounts are out, which will start on September 15, and today the call for the auditions is also launched. The producers will have a season in Madrid and tour throughout Spain.
"It's not a franchise, because we like to be free to do what we want," emphasizes Llàcer, who confesses that he will be part of the cast, although he does not give more details. Llàcer and Guix will have the collaboration of Enric Cambray in the direction and Miryam Benedited in the choreography.
Regarding the language of the musical, which will be Spanish, Sellas explains: “Whenever we can, we opt for the Catalan language, as with Pares normals and El Petit Príncep. But with these great musicals you can only consider a production, which has to be in Spanish to be able to do a season in Madrid and tour, so that it can be done under equal conditions”.
“For some time we have been talking with the Department of Culture of the Generalitat to find out how we can do it to make it possible in Catalan. If it can be done in the field of cinema, it must be possible to do it in the performing arts. And the theatrical genre that contributes the most audiences and generates the most income is musicals”, concludes the producer.
