Between September 25 and October 3, La Colmenita will return to the United States stages more than a decade after the last tour in that country.
The prestigious children’s theater company will perform in the cities of Tampa (Florida), New York and Washington DC with the story of Cenicienta según los Beatles (Cinderella according to the Beatles), Prensa Latina (PL) news agency pointed out.
Based on the story by the Frenchman Charles Perrault, this work was adapted by Carlos Alberto Cremata, director of the group, “in a fun plot in which the songs of the famous British group are inserted as a key element,” PL added.
The media outlet recalled its first tour eight years earlier, in March 2003, when they visited several cities in California.
The company, according to Cremata, arose from a television program that he and his mother made, titled Cuando yo sea grande (When I Grow Up), in which “children wanted to be pilots, photographers,” he told Prensa Latina at another time.
Its first theater work was Meñique, and it was performed before 5,000 people at the Karl Marx Theater in 1994.
The group was founded on February 14, 1990. It is considered a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Figures such as Michelle Obama, the former first lady of the United States, the so-called “laughter doctor” Patch Adams, singers Harry Belafonte, Katy Perry, and Beyoncé, actors Sean Penn and Danny Glover, and Spanish soccer star Sergio Ramos, have visited the company’s headquarters, located on Calle 13, corner Avenida de los Presidentes, in El Vedado.
In April 2023, Ana de Armas and her boyfriend, businessman Paul Boukadakis, were welcomed by the group members. The boys and girls, as well as Cremata, showed them the group’s facilities and explained their history of training generations of Cuban and other countries’ children.
