The director of Dagoll Dagom, Joan Lluís Bozzo, has confessed that tonight of the musical night Tuesday I, With which the company has definitely lowered the curtain after more than 50 years of experience, it has been “a historical, unrepeatable moment”, but “as if you were attending your own funeral,” he joked.
A few hours after that moment, Bozzo explained in statements that try to look at it “with a certain distance”, and stressed that this emotional day becomes “a summary of life, in one hour the curtain is lowered and more than fifty years of activity ends, which is our entire active life,” he said.
With irony he added that “it has the good part that this last function is as if we attended our own funeral, something very recurrent in people’s fantasy.”
The also founder and executive producer of Dagoll Dagom, Anna Rosa Cisquella, commented, on the other hand: “In these last hours emotion is what will prevail, because emotion leads you to remember and today’s public we take it home.”
“We will see the thousand people today of Teatre Victòria as representatives of the five million viewers we have had, and we thank you for having given our lives,” said Cisquella.
The producer and actress has left the door open to “in a few years the possibility that, as is done with many musicals, someone can do a franchise and Tuesday It is seen again on stage, but it will no longer be Dagoll Dagom ”who represents it.
Besides, Tuesday It will have a cinematographic version before the end of the year from the recordings that have been made these days, with a production led by 3CAT and with the collaboration of multinationals such as Sony and Fuji, which has used the latest generation cameras and sound to achieve a cinematographic appearance and immersive sound of theatrical representation.
For the musical recording, the Vallès Symphony Orchestra was used, with 53 musicians, including the music composer of Tuesday I, The pianist Albert Guinovart.
In this last season, the work has brought together more than 300,000 spectators, of them 40,000 students in school functions.
Since the first edition of the musical, in 1988, Dagoll Dagom has offered more than 1,600 functions of Tuesday I, which have been seen for 1.5 million viewers.
Theater Dagoll Dagom was founded by director and poet Joan Ollé and on April 30, 1974 he premiered his first work, I was a fool and what I have seen has made two dumbbased on poems by Rafael Alberti.
The launch of the company to the general public, as well as its professionalization occurred in 1977 with I will not speak in class, show about childhood memories in the Francoist era.
At that time, Joan Lluís Bozzo, Anna Rosa Cisquella and Miquel Periel enter the direction of the show and are constituted as the company’s management team.
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The definitive turn towards musical theater occurred in 1978 with Antaviana, Peres Stories Based on Tales, Music by Jaume Sisa and scenery of Isidre Prunés and Montse Amenós, and in 1981 the company premieres the show The night of San Juan, Also with music by Jaume Sisa.
In 1988 it would arrive Tuesday I, Musical based on a work by àngel Guimerà, with text by Xavier Bru de Sala y Music of Albert Guinovart, a show about the love story of a Moorish pirate and a Christian captive in the seventeenth century that would become the greatest success of the company, represented four times.
Other outstanding works during the long career of Dagoll Dagom have been Glups !!, the mikado, aloma, nit flower, t’odio love meu, cop of rock, unreal family, musical, perritxola, sccaramoche, maremar o The joy that happens.