Dagoll Dagom put an end to it, yes, but not without making noise, because in addition to the return of Mar i cel, their most emblematic creation, this Friday they announced the events with which they will celebrate the 50th anniversary: ??a great gala, an exhibition, a catalog book and an album that review the history of the company. In an event at their theater, the Victòria – it was their home between 1986 and 2019, when they sold it to Antonio Díaz, the Pop Magician, who did not want to miss it –, the three partners, Anna Rosa Cisquella, Joan Lluís Bozzo and Miquel Periel, have applauded the audience that has filled the invited stalls – in a social media contest – and have wanted to review the global figures: 34 shows – of which 23 have been musical –, five series of television, 653 school performances – with more than half a million attendees – and 8,270 performances that have exceeded 4.5 million viewers, of which 1.2 have seen Mar i cel in the three productions that have been made so far (1988, 2004, 2014). For the next one, which will premiere on September 14, they have already sold 75,000 tickets.
But before that, they will celebrate the fifty years with a gala at the Teatre Grec, La gran nit de Dagoll Dagom (July 11, 12 and 13), directed by Daniel Anglès and with the participation of a hundred artists – musicians, choir and actors – of which 26 have been part of the company, such as Mone, Roger Berruezo, Muntsa Rius, Víctor Arbelo, Pep Molina or Mercè Martínez, and the collaboration of actors such as Pep Cruz, Àngels Gonyalons, Elena Gadel, Ivan Labanda, Ferran Rañé and Nina Ironically, Bozzo has assured that they are already “elaborating the staircase of the centenary”, hoping that “Catalan theater continues to have the bad health of iron that it has had until now”. English has assured that “we will travel in a disorderly manner through all the material” in a show that will also be “a beautiful way to relive what has happened”.
Later, the new cast of Mar i cel was revealed, with the actors entering while they were singing the Anthem of the pirates, with Jordi Garreta (Saïd) and Alexia Pascual (the Eufòria finalist will play Blanca) as main protagonists, in addition to Abel García (Joanot), Albert Gràcia (Hassèn), Berta Luna (Idriss), Xavi Fernández (Don Carles), Eloi Gómez (Ferran and Archbishop Ribera), Clara Renom (mother of Saïd and Teresa), Sergio Escribano (Malek and soldier), Candela Díaz (Maria and Moorish woman), Esteve Roig (Osman and soldier), Cisco Cruz (Salam, Baron of Dénia and soldier), Albert Mora (Felipe II, King of Spain, Albanian and soldier), Anna Alborch (Queen Margarita of Austria, Carme y mujer moorisca), Bittor Fernández (television Titó will be Felip, the duke of Lerma and a cabo), Estel Aparicio (Saïd niño and Montserrat), Carmen Giner (Rosa y mujer moorisca), Biel Llongueras (Abderrahïm and Idriss II), Guillem Ripoll (mute and father of Saïd) and Guillem Fole (Mohamed and soldier). The boat, which has already passed 36 years with “small changes”, awaits them.
The adapter of Àngel Guimerà’s text, Xavier Bru de Sala, has explained how, to make the song lyrics so that Albert Guinovart could play his music, he worked with themes from other musicals, except for the Himne dels pirates, for which he looked for the best anthems, according to him The Internationale and The Marseillaise, which he discovered have the same patterns, so that the lyrics of the three songs can be interchanged. Bru de Sala has also explained to this newspaper that over the years changes have been made, but “less than twenty words”, and perhaps the most visible thing is that at the beginning they sang about the “Muslim brothers”, but it was changed by “faithful Muslims” in the face of the existence of the Islamist group.
In September, Dagoll Dagom will begin the last sailing.
Catalan version, here
