Directed by Nacho Cano and written by screenwriter David Serrano, Today I can not lift tells the story of a group of young people looking in Madrid in the years 80 the way to become music stars.
The legendary themes Mecano serve to baste the plot of the musical, that portrays youth and lifestyle Madrid at the time. Own Today I can not lift, I snuck into a party, Makeup the Moonchild, are some of the most representative of Mecano present at the show.
The big surprise was Nacho Cano in preparing the musical assembly “Today I can not lift”, to be released soon in Mexico, is that Mexicans are wonderful actors, very sensitive and intuitive, confirming, said former Mecano, that our country has an undeniable artistic talent.
“Day by day, Nacho has marveled more and more with what you are doing in Mexico. Team is excited about the musical and he confessed that there is a powerful test sensitivity”, says José Manuel Lorenzo, Spanish producer of the work, in which part, on the Mexican, OCESA Theatre and CIE.
Lorenzo has been for 15 days prior environmental feeling that permeates trials, and ensures that you are so glad that Cano had to force him to leave Mexico to settle some unfinished business in Spain, because, adds, former Mecano want to stay in our country a long time.
Two weeks, musical team has been rehearsing and finalizing details, and now, confirms, the work is practically mounted.
“Everything is Mexican: musicians, actors, Technicians… For the artistic side have made a casting over 200 musicians and hundreds of actors, that have been select each, and we are pleased to say that we have made great discoveries”, Lorenzo says.
Excited and deeply impressed by the work being carried out in our country, Today producer I can not lift, which will be staged at the Teatro Telmex 1 of Mexico City, equipped to meet the mounting demands of sound and light systems that give the spectacular packaging that the work required, People expressed! the cast, headed by Fernanda Castillo and Alan Estrada, is fantastic.
“Testing has gone very fast because the cast has captured immediately the meaning and depth of history, both the comedy and the emotional hard and has“, notes.
Regarding the script, the producer mentioned that almost nothing has been touched, has simply left it to the actors and dancers who modify it minimally from their work, but that was followed in a line that retains the essence of the original, conceived and designed by Nacho Cano.
“Everything has worked in Spain we wanted to work there, perhaps with a Mexican toquecillo, but the story is the same: two young people who want to succeed in a big city, Madrid in the years 80, and end up getting it”, Spanish explains producer, who emphasizes that behind it is the benchmark Mecano, something perfectly understood in Mexico, so the songs are also the same, as if any would have changed the musical too distorted, pointed.
Finally, José Manuel Lorenzo highlights that Cano is very happy to write a new page in the history of Mecano, through this musical that has been incorporated into new generations of young people who never knew him, something will happen now with Mexico and later, according to forecasts by producers, in Broadway and Central.
Today I can not lift be released in late May in DF