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| Free Teaching, defined as a “short comic lyric piece in one act”, premièred on December 11th, 1901 at Madrid’s Teatro Eslava, with music by Gerónimo Giménez. The Little White Cat, defined as a “lyric whimsy in one act” first went on stage on December 23rd, 1905 at Madrid’s Teatro Cómico, with music by Gerónimo Giménez and Amadeo Vives. Since then, both works have been considered to lie close to the ever more popular “suggestive” genre, of French influence, and known for its risqué shows. In the case of the works we are concerned with here, we have two good scores from two of our best musicians of the era, but with original texts which are littered with jokes which are in some cases incomprehensible for today’s audiences, and which in other cases could justifiably be labelled as sexist. This is the basic reason which has led Enrique Viana to create the free version that we are going to enjoy tonight, which weaves both works into a single show. In this new production from the Teatro de la Zarzuela, the stage director maintains the music and the sung parts intact, and makes radical changes to the spoken text. And so he places Free Teaching at the service of The Little White Cat, rewriting the first completely and leaving only the plot and the characters of the second. In short, this show will provide an authentic “comic lyric nonsense in one act” or, as Viana himself adds as an alternative title, Come along and spend the evening. | ||||||||
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