Next fall they will arrive at the main theaters in Madrid four musicals: Matilda, Singing in the Rain, The NeverEnding Story, and The Bridges of Madison County. Only one of them, Singing in the rain, has already been seen in Barcelona where it premiered last September 2021. Find out when they will be released, in which theater they can be seen and what is the story they tell.
Matilda
On September 30, Matilda, the musical, one of the most successful Broadway and West End musicals, arrives at the Nuevo Alcalá theater in Madrid. Based on the novel by Roal Dahl, this fun classic tells the story of Matilda, an incredibly smart and resourceful girl with some very special powers. David Serrano is in charge of the adaptation and direction of this show that he has won more than 90 international awards and in whose cast children represent 50%.
Synopsis
Matilda is a very bright girl, intelligent and ingenious, who lives in a family environment that does not know how to appreciate her great potential. When she turns six and a half, she is sent to school: a horrible place, where the students live subjugated under the strict orders of a terrible director, a former Olympic champion. There she will discover her great power: the ability to move things with thought. Thanks to him, she will devise a cunning plan to get rid of the director and make life at school more peaceful and calm.
Singing under the rain
Singing in the rain, the new project of Angel Llàcer and Manu Guix After the success of La Cage de las Locas and La Tienda de los Horrores, it will premiere at the Teatro Apolo in Madrid on September 29.
Synopsis
Singing in the rain is a love story set in the irruption ofThe sound film in the Hollywood industry, which shows all the formal and aesthetic elegance characteristic of the 20s. A musical comedy full of nods to the world of cinema, humor and sensitivity, which unfolds through spectacular dance numbers, emotional scenes and songs that today are a gender icon.
The Neverending Story, the musical
Another of the musicals that you can see in Madrid, specifically at the Calderón Theater from October 5, will be The Endless Story, a show based on the unforgettable novel by Michael Ende where music, fantasy and special effects will conquer you. A musical created by Iván Macías (composer) and Felix Amador (writer) that aims to return us to that fantasy world that conquered our hearts in the 80s.
Synopsis
Nothingness is making its landscapes and its magical creatures. To prevent this, the Childish Empress sends Atreyu the warrior to seek a solution in a heroic and desperate adventure. This is the story of the book that Bastian, a boy who loves to read, discovers in Mr. Koreander's bookstore. Or is it the book that has called Bastian? Fantastic beings, witches, nocturnal sylphs, rock-eating giants, flying dragons… Bastian is fascinated by the book as he reads Atreyu's adventures as if he were living them. I wish he could help the Childlike Empress…
The Bridges of Madison
The Bridges of Madison County is one of the most emblematic stories of cinema of all times. Is it possible to bring to the stage a project that began as a phenomenal best-selling novel by Robert James Waller (1992) and was later followed up with a wonderful movie (1995) starred by Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. Set in 1965, in Iowa, the drama will premiere on November 9 at the EDP Gran Vía Theater.
Synopsis
Francesca had been a war bride in Naples. Her future husband was to be Paolo, but he never returned from the battlefield. Soon after, she meets Bud and marries him in hopes of a better life across the ocean. Later, with her marriage of two decades and two rebellious teenage sons, an unexpected encounter makes him question her very existence. During four days, in which her husband and children are absent to attend a fair, her life will turn upside down and change forever.
Los Puentes de Madison is not the story of an adultery, but the desperate song of a love that is sublimated in separation and, not being able to be, transcends and lasts forever. Lovers are the protagonists of an epiphany that only takes on its full meaning in the brutal courage of renunciation.
The Bridge is the metaphor of the impossible link. What unites, but also separates. The key to reading is the viewer's identification with the drama on stage, which will unleash an overwhelming empathy in the face of Francesca's desperate uneasiness and poetic illusion. Having been able to give herself body and soul to the unknown, she finds herself torn between his duty and his dreams.
Francesca loves both ways, but she can only choose one option.
These are some of the musicals that you can see in Madrid next fall. If you want to enjoy any of them, buy your tickets now! Do not miss them! Do not you think any of these musicals the perfect excuse to travel to Madrid for a weekend? It can be a perfect plan, besides, for the whole family.