''Regina: Un Musical Para Una Nación Que Despierta'' (Regina: A musical for an awaking nation) is a musical presented in the San Rafael Theater in Mexico. The musical part of the play was composed by Antonio Calvo, with lyrics by Alex Slucki, based on the novel ''Regina'' (1987) by
Antonio Velasco Piña
Antonio Velasco Piña (8 September 1935 – 27 December 2020) was a Mexican novelist, spiritual writer and essayist.
He was the founder of ''La Nueva Mexicanidad'', a group advocating the ''Mexicanism'' or ''Mexicanista'' (Mexicayotl) movement p ...
. This play was performed for the first time on March 21, 2003.
History
This is the very first time
Lucero performed in a play. She accepted the role that was offered by Pablo Perroni, Antonio Calvo and Renato Herrera.
Lucero looked the opportunity because she rejected the role of the soap opera
Amor real
''Amor real'' ( English: ''Royal Love'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa, broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas (now known simply as Las Estrellas). It originally aired from June 9 to October 17, 2003. ''Amor real'' ...
by the director
Carla Estrada
Synopsis
Regina was born from the union of
Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl
Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl refers to the volcanoes Popocatépetl ("the Smoking Mountain") and Iztaccíhuatl ("white woman" in Nahuatl, sometimes called the Mujer Dormida "sleeping woman" in Spanish) in Iztaccíhuatl–Popocatépetl National ...
volcanoes in the 50s. She was a
dakini
A ḍākinī ( sa, डाकिनी; ; mn, хандарма; ; alternatively 荼枳尼, ; 荼吉尼, ; or 吒枳尼, ; Japanese: 荼枳尼 / 吒枳尼 / 荼吉尼, ''dakini'') is a type of female spirit, goddess, or demon in Hinduism and Bud ...
with supernatural powers inherited by the
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dal ...
, dominated the nature (the rain, the wind, the day, the night, etc.). This was discovered by Tagdra Rimpoche, her mentor, along with the Dalai Lama, upon doing some tests with objects, where she, in a natural way, would choose the same objects that the Dalai Lama had already chose
Musical Numbers
# Ciudad Inhumana
# Digan Por qué
# Hechizo de Luna
# Lama La
# Luz de mi verdad
# Viva Regina
# La Cárcel China
# Gloria
# No hay tiempo que perder
# Libres
# Amanecer
# Con un solo pensamiento
# Dinos por qué
# Mira con los ojos de la esencia
Performers
#
Lucero
# Edgar Cañas
# Ana Regina Cuarón
# Jano
# Enrique del Olmo
# Danna Paola
# José Roberto Pisano
# Moisés Suárez
#
Alejandro Villeli
Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander.
Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander (Czech, Polish), Alexandre ( French), Alexandros (Greek), Alsander (Irish), Alessandro (Italian), Aleksandr (Rus ...
See also
*
Regina (album)
''Regina: Un Musical Para Una Nación Que Despierta'' (English: ''Regina: A musical for an awaking nation'') is a special album from 2003 released after the play of the same name. Its distribution was for Mexico.
Track list
# Ciudad inhumana - ...
References
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* http://www.castalbums.org/recordings/6800
1997 musicals
Musicals based on novels