“BESANDO el Terciopelo
Una Historia. Dos Mujeres. Un Amor a dos voces.”
Flavia DE LUCA Ana LARZEN
Con la participación especial de
Laura FAIENZA
Función Estreno
Lunes 15 de Diciembre
A las 20:30 hs.-
En la Sala Colette
PASEO LA PLAZA
Av. Corrientes 1660 – Cdad. Aut. De Bs. As.
Argentina
Valor de la Entrada: $30 (Incluye Consumición!)
“Lippa´s The Wild Party”
Musical basado en un poema basado en los
“Estruendosos Veinte”.
Escenario. Un poco de Historia. Estados Unidos después de la primer guerra mundial. La economía y la producción estaban en auge. Un crecimiento impensado y desorbitado. Cualquier persona de cualquier situación económica podía llegar a convertirse en alguien de mucho poder adquisitivo. A los que se les llamaba “nuevos ricos”, en contraposición a la vieja aristocracia que los aborrecía y discriminaba. Aunque muchos de los llamados “nuevos ricos” poseían más dinero que la vieja aristocracia americana.
Según la Enmienda N° 18 de la Constitución Americana, se prohibía la producción, venta y consumo de alcohol. Comienza el mercado negro de alcohol. El crimen organizado. Esto era una fuente de ingreso del cual cualquiera podía iniciar su fortuna. Muchos lo hicieron.
Una nueva era. Muchas mujeres debían salir a la calle a conseguir trabajo. Debido a que maridos y padres habían muerto en el campo de batalla, mujeres se convertían en la base de sustento de la familia. Se organizaban grandes cantidades de fiestas privadas en donde corría el alcohol como agua.
Una época de color. Los comienzos del Jazz. Y al ritmo del saxo… se movian los “Roaring Twenties”, como se denomina popularmente a este periodo de la historia.
En la primavera estadounidense del 2000, se estrenaron dos musicales: “Wild Party”. Dos fiestas. Una de ellas, una de esas historias salvajes se estrenó en Broadway, de LaChiusa, protagonizada entre otros por Toni Collete. ..y.. La versión Off – Broadway, escrita por Lippa.
Andrew Lippa, autor del libro, letras y musica de “The Wild Party”. Cuenta la historia de una noche de fiesta descontrolada, salvaje en Manhattan, en el departamento de dos artistas de Vaudeville, Quinnie y Burrs. Este musical de Off – Broadway cuenta pasiones fuera de control. Capturando el sonido de una epoca que es vigente hasta nuestros días. Nos hace pensar que la decadencia moral no esta solamente limitada al pasado.
A medida de que los invitados van llegando a la fiesta, nos encontramos con Madelaine Brooks, que se presenta ante el publico y los presentes en la fiesta como lesbiana. Antes que termine el primer acto, una de las canciones más cómicas y dulces que he escuchado. “An Old – Fashioned Love Story” (Una historia de amor al viejo estilo). Y aquí, la letra.
MADELAINE
At the bar there’s a girl in the shadow
Sitting still like a nun unknown.
Though an attic full of strangers
May hold many hidden dangers
There’s a quality I like -
She’s alone. So I pause
And I wink
And I shudder
Just to bring her attention in line
While her pastures may be greener
I can tell by her demeanor
She’s mine!(The girl falls off her chair, dead drunk.)
That’s fine:
I need a good-natured, old-fashioned
Lesbian love story
The kind of tale my mama used to tell.
Where the girls were so sweet
And the music would swell
And in the end the queen would send the men off to hell.
What is that mild-mannered, old-fashioned
Lesbian love story
Where people knew exactly who they were?
I want the story of yore
That they don’t sing anymore
To an old-fashioned dyke like her.
See that girl on the bed, how she wants me.
She’s a bee I could free from the hive.
I would never dare deceive her
She’s a very clever beaver
With a quality I like -
She’s alive.
So I pause
And I twitch
In the silence
While I pray that she’ll play out this hand.
But I feel my intuition
Saying “Notice her position” -
Start the band!
(The girl is embraced by a man.)
She’s clearly manned.
I planned a well-rendered, one-gendered
Lesbian love story
With good old-fashioned sex in every line
Where girls with tattoos would whimper and whine
“While on all fours, you show me yours
And I’ll show you mine.”
I miss that soft-hearted, old-fashioned
Lesbian love story
Where women wrestle bears and passersby.
The kind of story so good
That they won’t tell in my ‘hood
To an old-fashioned dyke like -
I’m gorgeous
I’m single
I’m bustin’ with laughs
So why
Can’t I
Be just in two short paragraphs of a
You betcha, damn funny
Lesbian love story
The kind of yarn that turns a girl to mush.
Choose from hundreds of blondes
But when shove comes push
I understand a bird in hand’s worth two in the bush.
Sweet Jesus!
Let’s hear that old-fashioned
Lesbian love story
Where girls are girls
And boys stay out to sea.
I’ll write a new one and then
I’ll make them tell it again
To an old-fashioned dyke
Like me!
A quien disfrute de la buena música, recomiendo.
A quienes aman los musicales, no deben dejar de escuchar esta joya.
“Lippa´s The Wild Party”. Uno de los mejores musicales que he escuchado. Cuenta en su elenco original con mi admirada Idina Menzel (Ganadora del premio Tony por su Elphaba en “Wicked”. Original y única: Maureen en “RENT”) y Taye Diggs (Benny – “RENT”. Curiosidad: Esposo de Idina Menzel).
No puedo dejar de omitir, la letra de la que pienso es la mejor canción del musical. Desde Eva, interpretada por el personaje de Queenie. Dios, que simula ser el personaje de Max. Adam. Moisés. Abraham. Todos vivieron “Wild Parties”. Y te estoy invitando a ti a que la leas!
“A Wild, Wild Party”
EVE (–QUEENIE–)
God has said:
GOD (–MAX–)
“Don’t eat that apple, child,
It’s bad, forbidden fruit. OSCAR And PHIL
Bad, forbidden fruit.
GOD (–MAX–)
That’s right.
EVE (–QUEENIE–)
God has said:
GOD (–MAX–)
“Don’t break my laws
Or give me cause
To use my boot.”
OSCAR And PHIL
Don’t go that route.
GOD (–MAX–)
That’s what I said.
EVE (–QUEENIE–)
I misunderstood him
Or maybe I forgot
Cause after just one bite:
Ooh!
What a night.
Cool Paradise turned hot!
We were having a wild, wild party
We were loving it loud and fast
We were having a wild, wild party
And hoping the beer would last.
Adam, help me now!
ADAM And EVE (–BURRS And QUEENIE–)
We were driving it fast and funky
We were dancing and running free
We were having a wild, wild party
EVE (–QUEENIE–)
And all because of that tree!
THE TREE (–EDDIE–)
A wild, wild, wild party.
OSCAR
Chapter next!
PHIL
Sodom and Gomorrah
That seedy, greedy den
Got said to Abraham:
GOD (–MAX–)
“Go find me righteous men!”
OSCAR
Abie went
To find one gent
PHIL
And he could guess
Those folks were less than glad he was sent.
OSCAR
For when the Boss came down
PHIL And OSCAR
They were burning up the town.
PHIL And OSCAR SODOMITES
They were having a wild, wild party Indeed!
They were loving it loud and fast Such speed!
They were having a wild, wild party
And hoping the beer would last.
OSCAR
Hey, what’s on tap?
PHIL And OSCAR SODOMITES
They were driving it fast and funky Wa ooh!
They were doin’ it to a fault So true!
They were having a wild, wild party
GOD (–MAX–)
Until that woman turned to salt!
QUEENIE, OSCAR And PHIL
Heaven watched us tearing up the joint
Heaven, ever slowly, got the point
QUEENIE
Moses, coming down from the mount
What’s that I hear you say?
PHIL
Holy, Moses, down from the mount
Been workin’ a-forty day.
QUEENIE, OSCAR And PHIL
Your people wandered from the Word
Now how did this begin?
MOSES (–BURRS–)
I was so in shock
They made me drop my rock
ISRAELITES
Well, Moe – what was their sin?
MOSES ISRAELITES
They were having a wild, wild party Baruch haba -
They were dancing and living free Baruch atah -
They were having a wild, wild party
MOSES (–Burrs–)
And not a soul invited me.
QUEENIE, OSCAR And PHIL
So don’t you see
That’s the way it was meant to be
BURRS
From chapter one
QUEENIE
To one hundred thirty-three.
QUEENIE, BURRS, OSCAR And PHIL
If in Heaven you don’t excel
You can always party down in Hell!
OSCAR And PHIL
Then finally -
ALL
We’ll be having a wild, wild party
We’ll be loving it loud and fast
We’ll be having a wild, wild party
And hoping the beer would last.We’ll be having a wild, wild party
We’ll be loving it loud and fast
We’ll be having a wild, wild party
And hoping the beer would last.We’ll be driving it fast and funky
We’ll be dancing in primordial stew
Such a wonderful wild, wild party
And we’re inviting you!
QUEENIE, BURRS, OSCAR And PHIL
And we’re inviting you!
