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TEATRO DEL SOHO CaixaBank, ''Gypsy''

Málaga

Located in the central district of Malaga with the same name, the TEATRO DEL SOHO CaixaBank was taken over in 2017 by Antonio Banderas who, having returned to his hometown after his time as a Hollywood star ...

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... renovated it and transformed it into a very modern 900-seat theater (in the images, two renderings developed by Illusion Stage) that produces highly successful musicals.The visual design of Gypsy is based ...

... on the metallic reflections of the silver HLU - Lucilla fabric, of which the stage designer Alejandro Andújar exploited every scenographic possibility.The stage was decorated, in fact, to respond functionally to the spatial and kinetic needs of the staging by Antonio Banderas, with 40 silvery moving curtains ...

... of various shapes and sizes.In fact, almost 3,000 m² of HLU - Lucilla draped with vertical fullness 100% were used and the making up included most of the possible configurations (curtains, wings, ceilings and backdrops) including various Traveller curtains with central and lateral opening, a large Kabuki curtain ...

... and 6 Venetian curtains including the one in the image, here lifted with a ''contour'' opening.For the traveller movement the set up used ...

... 106 m of TRX track, while for the vertical movement, made easier by the lightness of the HLU - Lucilla, numerous Manual fly lines were used.The lighting designers Juan Gómez-Cornejo and Carlos Torrijos exploited the accentuated reflective properties of the silver HLU - Lucilla ...

... to paint it in every color and to project images and videos that, transfigured by the hyper-reflective surface and worked with the fullness of the fabric ...

... allegorically evoked the unreal atmosphere of the American variety show of the 1930s in which the real events ...

Gyspy

Musical

Music

Jule Styne (1905-1994)

Libretto

Arthur Laurents (1917-2011)

Libretto translation

María Ruiz

Lyrics

Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)

Lyrics translation

Roser Batalla

First night

New York, Broadway Theatre, 21/5/1959

Stage direction

Antonio Banderas

Musical direction

Arturo Díez Boscovich

Choreography

Borja Rueda
Jerome Robbins

Scenography

Alejandro Andújar

Costume design

Antonio Belart
Rafael Garrigós

Light design

Juan Gómez-Cornejo (A.A.I.)
Carlos Torrijos (A.A.I.)

Sound design

Jordi Ballbé

Video design

Joan Rodón
Emilio Valenzuela

Pictorial realizations

José Luis Puche

Characterization

Laura Rodríguez

Tap choreography

Maria Bossy

Technical direction

Moisés Robles
Francisco Grande
(Illusion Stage)

Staging

TEATRO DEL SOHO CaixaBank of Málaga

Season

2024 / 2025

Materials used in this production

1T - TRX

Track systems

9SN - Suction kabuki

Systems for curtains

ASL - Light Sceno

Sheer muslin

CAB - Sound Absorber

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

HLU - Lucilla

Metallic aspect fabrics

HSE - Tempesta

Silks and satins

Kabuki curtains

Typology of curtain

QLA - Laccato

Decorative films

Stage maskings

Acoustic curtains

Traveller curtains

Typology of curtain

Venetian curtains

Typology of curtain

Vertical fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

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