04/12/09: WE WILL ROCK YOU HAS ARRIVED IN MILAN!

 

 

Sold out on Friday 4 December at the Allianz Theatre in Milan for the Italian debut of 'We Will Rock You', the musical conceived by Queen which has been a resounding success at the Dominion Theatre in London's West End for eight years. And on opening night, Brian May and Roger Taylor certainly could not be absent, guitar and bass of Queen, who followed the concept of the Italian production, curated with them by Claudio Trotta's Barley Arts, from the very beginning.

 

The cast of 30 singers, actors and dancers, one eight-piece band playing live every night Queen's unforgettable hits, high definition screens e the extreme cleanliness of the sound in dolby surround sound are the winning features of a musical that has no equal in the genre: decidedly rock'n'roll in form and substance.

Galileo e Scaramouche are the predestined ones who will bring rock music back to life on the Planet, opposed by a ruthless Killer Queen, head of the multinational Globalsoft, and his assistant Khashoggibut helped by friends Bohemiana group of rebels among whom are Brit e Ozand the surreal librarian Pop unique in preserving and passing on the ancient memory of the happy times when music reigned supreme on Earth.

Trying their hand at the various roles, under the skilful directed by Maurizio Colombi - actor and former author of another successful musical Peter Pan - will be some of the most interesting names on the Italian theatre, music and television scene such as Martha Rossi e Martina Ciabatti in the role of Scaramouche, Loredana Fadda and Mary Dima (Oz), Paolo Barillari (Brit) e Valentina Ferrari (KillerQueen), Salvo Vinci e Gianluca Merolli (Galileo), Carlo Spanò e Salvo Bruno (Khashoggi) and finally Maximilian Column, the first to enter the scene, in the role of Pop. Each of them can boast a CV made up of musicals, theatre experience, television series, cinema and live music, which aptly illustrate their undeniable skill and stage presence.

La band of 8 elements accompanying each performance, playing Queen songs live, is directed by Roberto Zanaboni, who can boast a long career that includes collaborations with musicians of the calibre of Mina, Fossati, Ruggeri, Ramazzotti, Rino Gaetano and Zero, composing soundtracks for film and theatre, and participating in orchestras in prominent television programmes. Guitarist in the band is Tristan Avakianalready part of the musical produced in Canada.

Brian May, at the end of the selections for We Will Rock You, emphasised 'the very high artistic level of the cast selected in Italy and the great professionalism of artists capable of singing Queen's songs live (in English), acting in Italian', while Roger Taylor noted that 'the dream of bringing the musical with Queen's songs to Italy could only come true after finding the ideal partners: Barley Artswith 30 years of experience in the production of live music shows and Maurizio Colombia theatre director with a rock attitude'.

 

We Will Rock You The Musical' currently includes 4 weeks of reruns until 30 Decemberfor many of which tickets are rapidly travelling to sell out. Following this resounding success a new show is now added on 31 December, a show not to be missed for those who want to spend a rockin' New Year's Eve at the theatre. The pre-sale for this special New Year's Eve replica opens on 4 December at the premiere.

 

Written and directed by Ben Elton, with Brian May e Roger Taylor as supervisors, We Will Rock You includes 24 of the greatest hits of the Queen and reflects the live performances of the historic band. It has been called 'the only Musical with rock in it'.

 

WE WILL ROCK YOU - ALLIANZ TEATRO, via G. di Vittorio 6 - Assago (MI)

 

4 December 21.00 SOLD OUT

 

Repeats from 5 to 30 December 2009

SHOW TIMETABLEThu and Fri 9 pm; Sat 3.30 pm and 9 pm; Sun 3.30 pm

INFOAllianz Theatre: tel 02.48857 7516

TICKETS: Poltronissima blue € 65 - Poltronissima € 51,50 - Poltrona € 40 - Seconda Poltrona: € 25 + prev

RESERVATIONS

  • - www.ticketone.it and at points of sale throughout Italy
  • - Ticketweb: Call Centre 199 158 158 and at points of sale throughout Italy.

Retailers in Milan:

  • - Ticketweb c/o Area Multisport Mediolanum Forum Assago
  • - Ticketweb c/o Customer Care Cadorna
  • - Ferrovie Nord Cadorna Station (M1/M2)
  • - Ticketweb c/o KGB, Piazzale Baracca 4/6 (M1 Conciliazione)
  • - points of sale Box Office, Mariposa Duomo, Mariposa Porta Romana, Stradivarius, Ticket and Travel.

 

SPECIAL NEW YEAR'S EVE 31 DECEMBER 2009 at 21.15 (on sale from 4 December):

 

Poltronissima Blu: € 130+prev; Poltronissima: € 103+prev; Poltrona: € 80+prev; Seconda Poltrona: € 50+prev; Reduced Visibility: € 40+prev  

 

 

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