The renewed version of the acclaimed musical Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar continues its course with great success with both critics and audiences, with thousands of fans and well-known faces from the national scene who have filled the Teatro Coliseo in Madrid show after show since its premiere on September 12.
This revision of HNMPL stands out again not only because of the appeal that the catchy songs of Mecano, a group that was a milestone and that opened the frontiers of Spanish pop music during the 80s, still have; but mainly because of the revolution that it has meant technically.
The excellent work of lighting designer Carlos Torrijos has been responsible for this revolution with its innovative staging. His idea was “to keep the same libretto, the same story, but to transform it completely on a visual level”.
Torrijos was looking for a beam head that would serve his purpose of “achieving a style in which theatre and rock were mixed; with very delicate and subtle scenes and a very careful light on the one hand, and very marked scenes of light and colour and a lot of intention on the other”. After considering several options, he ended up opting for the Pointes de Robe, supplied by the company ASL, being both the first to bet on the Pointes in a Spanish show.
Along with the Pointes, Torrijos included a whole line of Chromlech Elidys, also supplied by ASL, covering the entire visible face of the trusses that were used in the set design. In addition to the screens that enter the stage guided from both sides of the stage and rotate 360º on themselves, the flights, mapping and moving projectors and stages.
Both Pointes and Elidys are distributed by Entertainment Equipment Supplies (EES), official distributor of Robe and Chromlech.
Torrijos stressed that “using all this technical material and bringing it together with the artistic and creative team so that together we can tell the same story, and so that it reaches the audience, generates emotions and entertains has been the great challenge”.
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