Cambio

Final Performance on August 18!

CAMBIO is an original musical that we are creating here at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. It’s a re-telling of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, set in modern day Havana, Cuba. In our show, the Hunchback’s timeless story of a young man who people reject as a monster, and his love for a beautiful, rebellious young woman, will take place in contemporary Havana, a city of simmering tensions, on the brink of tremendous change.

The name of the musical comes from the white rubber bracelets that a lot of young people in Cuba have started wearing; some wear them as a statement that the Cuban government is due for a much-needed change, and others wear them because they’re a fashion fad. The bracelets have one word on them, CAMBIO, which means, simply, “change”. After a protest in Havana this October, some 70 young people were arrested and jailed as dissidents; some youth were arrested at their homes, simply for owning a bracelet.

There will be a lot of action and dance in this show, mostly due to the superb choreography and costuming by Soozi Childers, who is also our movement director for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. Soozi’s experience includes choreography for Cirque du Soleil’s Mystère,” and A New Day in Las Vegas, Nevada, starring Celine Dion.

CAMBIO by Carole J. Dane and Jan Powell. Omar Alexander, Composer and Music Director.

CAMBIO is directed by Jan Powell, Artistic Director - Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Assistant Director, Rob Gander, Professor at the Speech Communication and Theatre Department - University of Nevada, Reno.

CAMBIO is made possible in part through a partnership with the University of Nevada Reno.

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