di Terzoli e Vaime
con la collaborazione di Montesano
musiche e canzoni di Claudio Mattone
coreografie di Gino Landi,
scene di Umberto Bertacca,
costumi di Lucia Mirisola e Alessandro Ciammarughi
regia di Pietro Garinei

Ten years ago Enrico Montesano appeared in a one-man show called “Beati Voi” (Lucky You). It was a successful show that marked a plus point in his career. Now, exhibiting insuppressible vitality and a time-tested sense of the stage, the actor is back with the same musical in a revised and updated edition, complete with a new coreography. The hero, Enrico, is an ordinary man from an ordinary Italian family, with one peculiarity - he was born on June 2nd, 1946, the official birthday of the Italian Republic. The various stages of his life interweave with the events of our illogical country, and the same benign and judicious irony that marks his personal experiences is a backdrop to the evolution of Italian society. We laugh along with the protagonist, because his quips always connect with our own memories. The ballets are catching, based on the same familiar tunes that we have all heard at town fetes or in ballrooms. And since revisiting the past can easily lead to the brink of nostalgia, humour and satire are always there to play down situations on the point of becoming dramatic. Whether portraying the millennium that we just left behind, or invoking the wisdom of looking beyond utopian dreams, we are made to realize that we have come a long way. Like Enrico, today’s Italians find themselves confronted by a deafening world full of sponsors, brands and commercials - a world not easy to decipher, where political and social categories that were once useful are no longer valid, and where even emotions slip away from families, in search of new paths to travel, far from home. The emblematic title “Beati voi (Lucky you)” has been extended with an equally emblematic “malgrado tutto (in spite of everything)”. In spite of everything that’s happened, the vanished dreams, the disappointments, the changes and the experiences endured over the years, Enrico believes that there is still place for smiling, time for hoping, and some way of making it from the past to the future - of finding a meaning to give to one’s life and to pass on to posterity, whose task will be to continue riding the wheel of life from story to story, whether of an ordinary man or of a people as crazy as the Italians. Translated by Interpres sas