The family musical ‘El Petit Príncep’ once again fills Paral·lel with magic
The year 2013 Ángel Lácer, Manu Guix i The Pearl 29 they turned one of the most universal tales, The Little Princein a musical with a large technological and audiovisual component. Since then, it has been 11 seasons that this musical, a classic of the family box office, has filled the Paral·lel 62 stage.
the narrator ofThe Little Prince is an aviator who had a breakdown and had to land in the Sahara desert to try to repair the plane. The day after his forced landing, he is awakened by a child’s voice asking him to draw a lamb. The boy is the Little Prince, who lives alone on asteroid B 612, where he tends three volcanoes and a rose. Day after day, the Little Prince tells his story to the aviator. What is the planet he lives on, asteroid B 612, the drama of baobabs and volcanoes, the birth of a proud rose, and finally the expedition to explore other asteroids in search of friends until reaching Earth .
“If something has The Little Prince is that he has many readings. You can read it when you’re young, when you’re a teenager and when you’re old, and you’ll always see different things in it,” he says. Angel Lazarusdirector of the show. The story “has a very adult part and a very childish part and what we will try is for the child to understand one thing, for the adult to understand another, and for the adult to be able to explain through this show the tell your children, nephews or grandchildren”.
One of the successes of the adaptation is that “the musical language has had no problem adapting to the universe of The Little Prince and vice versa, they understand each other very well”, says the lyricist Marc Artigauwhich tells us that the second act, which narrates the journey of the Little Prince, “will be a fifteen or twenty minute song that never stops, that accompanies, that is a journey and the music keeps changing”. And this journey will be accompanied by a scenography “based on projections and mappings that will place you at each moment of the story on a different planet”, so the images will make the viewer “feel that they are traveling together with the Little Prince”, explains the composer Manu Chalk. In addition, they have also created a surround sound system “so that the viewer has the feeling that the sound is not coming from in front of them, but that things are happening all around them”.
Despite this strong technological component, Llàcer explains that they wanted to make “this theater of a lifetime, an artisan, understood as a trade”, and that for this reason there will be a small company “where the actors will play different characters”.
More than 385,000 spectators have already seen this musical starring, once again, names like Henry Cambray, Marion Escoda, Xavi Duch, Manu Chalk, Bernard Mestre, Marc Pociello or Carmen Milanamong others.
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