When I remember my childhood I have images of my mother getting emotional when listening to tangos interpreted by Julio Sosa. I always thought that tango is the most “theatrical” of musical genres since each of them tells a story.
One day I decided to do something with those memories and I took on the challenge of writing a musical farce, taking those tangos but immersing them in comic situations that took them away from the dramatic concept with which they had been created. This is how Del barrio La Mondiola emerged, set in the 40s, which tells us the story of Leopoldo, a very shy and condescending municipal employee, secretly in love and subjected to the mistreatment of a boss and a co-worker who do not have many scruples. . But our protagonist is also a dreamer and in his dreams he is an excellent tango singer who dares to do anything, including telling his beloved what he feels for her and subjecting his boss and his partner to comically ridiculous situations as revenge. for the bad moments that they make him live. All this is told intertwined with the lyrics of popular tangos.
A wonderful team was formed, with Mecha Fernández in the choreography and general direction and a cast made up of Carlos Ledrag, Silvia Geijo, Jesica Livorsi and who writes them. With Moncho Santos and Juan Lorenzo (live musicians), Esteban Morgado (original music and arrangements), Mario Pera Ochoa (costumes), Vanesa Abramovich (scenography), Horacio “Chino” Novelle (light design), Miriam Manelli (wigs) , Marcelo Durán (assistant director) and Elena Avena (executive production). We had a very good first season at the 25 de Mayo and Caras y Caretas cultural centers (which as a finishing touch was crowned with four ACE Award nominations) and now we are re-opening at the El Tinglado theater. It’s beautiful what happens to us when we do this show, to see how the audience (of any age) enjoys it and the excellent feedback we get. For example, one day when leaving one of the performances, a lady who was waiting in the hall of the theater hugged me and said “Thank you, you made me live a happy hour” and I was very moved because that was the original idea, that the public enjoy, have fun and be excited, as well as listen to some thongs. I was always a “theater bug”, what happens to me on stage is incomparable. I feel like it’s my place in the world.
Obviously I also enjoy when they call me on television or in the movies and I am eternally grateful to the production of El Marginal for having chosen me to play such a character as Capece was, remaining in the five seasons of the series and gaining a popularity that remains intact, because at Being on a platform like Netflix, people watch it again at any time and it’s still relevant.
I am sorry that there is so little fiction on the screen these days; that reality shows and foreign soap operas have won almost the entire television space, cutting off a fundamental source of work for actors, technicians, directors, scriptwriters, etc, etc.
Hopefully this can be reversed and there is more national fiction offer.
Now the second season of Argentina, Tierra de Amor y Venganza, has aired, a strip in which I had the opportunity to participate with a rather controversial, dark character. That is why I would like the public that knows me more widely on television to come and see this theatrical proposal in which they will discover a facet of a comedy actor and playwright that they have not seen of me.
*Actor and author of Del barrio la mondiola (El Tinglado)
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