The theater is undoubtedly a platform where diverse realities are presented, for this installment inclusion and the desire to be who we dream of since childhood were celebrated.
On this occasion, a heartfelt tribute was made to Silvia Pinal, since it was she who performed the first Broadway musical adapted to the theater in the same venue where the award ceremony was held at the Centro Cultural del Bosque. Rin Rin, call love It was presented in 1958, to give way to a long career of musicals, dramatic works and comedies in the theater, independently of his time in film and television.
A musical number led by Michelle Rodríguez was the prelude for the so-called “last diva” to appear surprisingly on stage and receive the golden ring that is awarded at these Metropolitan Theater Awards.
Musical numbers of the works were presented with the company of The Prom Mexico, seven times goodbye, Indecenta space in which a tribute was presented to the actors who died since the last awards ceremony in 2021 and finally the number of aladdin the musical.
Maya Zapata presented a position before the audience in which she spoke about Poder Prieto and its role in Mexican entertainment, in which with a powerful message she called for rethinking the intentions of the performing arts.
“Today our narratives and the stereotyped way in which brown, indigenous, Afro-Mexican people are represented or flatly excluded influence and have historically influenced the great levels of inequality,” said the actress.
“Poder Prieto was not born to divide us, because we were already divided, nor to take away privileges from some and give them to others, we are here to expand the limits that racism gave us, classism and patriarchy gave us,” Zapata pointed out.
During the award for Best Direction of a Musical Work, in which Casey Nicholaw was the winner, there were whistles from a group of attendees claiming that he was not Mexican and should not be awarded. However, the person who collected the award on behalf of the company aladdin the musical He pointed out that this award is to celebrate the love of theater, so regardless of the origin of the director, it is theater made in Mexico.