THE STORY:
Venice today, during Carnival. A famous choreographer (Dick Marno) and her company of classical ballet are called to create a show that will be among the artistic events of the events related to the Carnival. For the same reason it is also called a famous rock singer (Bea Stravinsky) who, with his group of dancers funky, represent another show for the week of festivities. Patron and main sponsor of the event is a young, rich and eccentric Texan (Tina Cooper) who provides the rooms of his palace for the tests. Bea and Dick already knew; There’s bad blood between them and, having experience in the same room, the two groups collide continuously, weaving funny gags, songs and dances are full of energy. It ‘s so that Dick is the idea of combining the two teams for a great show all played on contrasts: men and women, classical music and rock, neo-classical dance and funky, the charm of the past of Venice and its future always in evolution. The show has in mind Dick is difficult to achieve the continuing disagreements between the two leaders of the groups and the opposition of Juan, an assistant to Dick. But the corps de ballet believe that it is a shame to miss a trick and fall in love with Dick and Bea. The history is clear inspiration in Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing”, discounting the game situations and the character of the characters: hate / love of the two protagonists Dick and Bea, the eccentric American comedy Tina “deus ex machina “of all, the plots of the aid-destructive choreographer Juan, love threatened by the jealousy of the young Leo and Chris. The history is clear inspiration in Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing”, discounting the game situations and the character of the characters: hate / love of the two protagonists Dick and Bea, the eccentric American comedy Tina “deus ex machina “of all, the plots of the aid-destructive choreographer Juan, love threatened by the jealousy of the young Leo and Chris. The fourteenth of the musical Company Rancia is a show which combines the expressive power of rock, the charm of classical dance and the lightness of comedy, with lavish costumes and scenes in which the great musicals have accustomed us.
Compagnia della Rancia, Italian Tour