Married with children closed a record season at the Gran Rex: 195,000 people saw it

Since the -pandemic- news of the theatrical version of Married with childrenthere was a foreboding in the media: it will be a success.

And it was. From its premiere at the Gran Rex, at the beginning of January, to its farewell -this Sunday 5- 195,000 people watched the show. Thus, it became -together with piaf AND immature– in one of the great successes of the Buenos Aires theater season.

The public response was so massive that features had to be added immediately -95 total, with tickets starting at $7840- until managing to hang the small sign, perhaps the most awaited by any artist – the most wonderful music -, hand in hand rivaling that sound massage for the ego, the applause. The sign in question, as we know, said – and continued to say it at every function – There are no more locations.

Those responsible for the fact that the Rex room is always full are William Francella -who also directs-Florencia Peña, Luisana Lopilato, Darío Lopilato, Marcelo De Bellis and Jorgelina Aruzzi (incorporated for this work), namely: Pepe, Moni, Paola, Coqui, Dardo and Azucena, the likeable characters of the comedy conducted by the Argentos and those neighbors who, by now, are already like a family…

Of the Argentos and of ours, that of every spectator who has made them their own after hours and hours of home television, a loop success of gave Telefe a lot of marks.

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The farewell was a party with endless applause from the spectators who enjoyed the intact magic of each of these characters who, faithful to their style, also made history in their theatrical version.

Regarding the climate, Sandra Commisso described it thus in her critique a clarionon 7 January: “You can breathe euphoria from the celebration of the World Cup”.

“Guillermo Francella and Florencia Peña leading the cast meet the expectations of viewers who want to see live Pepe (Francella), Mon (Peña)i, Paola (Luisana Lopilato), Coqui (Darío Lopilato), Dardo (Marcelo De Bellis) and now Azucena (Jorgelina Aruzzi), the new entry after the farewell of Erica Rivas. They enter the scene, they do not disappoint and the ovation explodes”.

Jorgelina Aruzzi’s great challenge

Jorgelina Aruzzi had a difficult challenge: the actress was called to be part of the cast of Married with children in the stage version which premiered last week at the Gran Rex and which fills the hall at each performance. After Erica Rivas, one of the historical figures of the successful Telefe seriescame out of the project in the theater, the question remained of what to do with that vacant role.

In this context, with imaginary figures so present and with such popular repercussions, how to replace María Elena, Rivas’ character, without replacing her exactly? With a new character, but without the incorporation distorting the essence of the project?

The answer is in the scenario where Jorgelina Aruzzi composes Azucena, an Argentine resident in France who returns to the country accompanying her new partner, Dardo Fuseneco. De Bellis’ character suggests that, in recent years, he separated from María Elena and began a courtship with Azucena. The work is the ideal circumstance for the official presentation in front of his friends, the Argentos.

Aruzzi’s comic register, added to his great craft and talentthey make it possible for the situation to be believable and, even for those nostalgic for the ineffable María Elena, her character fits perfectly into the plot and with the rest of the group that has already been dynamic for almost two decades installed in the public imagination .

Azucena’s ways, in principle, are far from the ways of the Argentos, but some characteristics that define their character, such as veganism, prepare the ground for the inevitable: face to face with family and, above all, with Pepe who it is far from being deconstructed.

The fact that it doesn’t surprise us -because a great success was expected, as we said at the beginning of these lines- does not mean that it shouldn’t be highlighted.

And having named the artists, we must add to the technical sheet that it is a production of Telefe, a brand owned by Paramount, and RGB Entertainment.