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One first base: Sports aficionados. Second base:
History enthusiasts. Third base: Flag-waving
Latinos. Each point to different aspects of the life of
legendary baseball player and humanitarian
Roberto Clemente.
First base: indisputably one of the best baseball
players. The first Latino baseball player inducted
into the Baseball Hall of Fame and the only
baseball player inducted by waiving the mandatory
waiting period.
Second base: The Puerto Rican who confronted the
ugliness of racisms in the United States because
of his “blackness”.
Third base: The humanitarian who lost his life
giving aid to earthquake striken Nicaragua. The
iconic Roberto Clemente now comes to life in a
musical staring Modesto Lacén who looks
uncannily like Roberto Clemente.
DC-7: the Roberto Clemente Story is a musical
about the life of Roberto Clemente told by his
brother. In the musical you meet his loving older
brother who watched out for him, whom he wrote
letters to. You meet his parents, the strict but gentle
father and supportive mother. You see how he met
his wife. Was it love at first sight? What did his
father think about him following baseball. How
close was he to his older brother?
To a sold-out audience, the musical uses moving
props, projector backdrop, Latin beats and smooth
choreography to tell the story of Roberto Clemente
as a black Puerto Rican who spoke little English
but had a dream to make it to Las Grandes Ligas.
History enthusiasts. Third base: Flag-waving
Latinos. Each point to different aspects of the life of
legendary baseball player and humanitarian
Roberto Clemente.
First base: indisputably one of the best baseball
players. The first Latino baseball player inducted
into the Baseball Hall of Fame and the only
baseball player inducted by waiving the mandatory
waiting period.
Second base: The Puerto Rican who confronted the
ugliness of racisms in the United States because
of his “blackness”.
Third base: The humanitarian who lost his life
giving aid to earthquake striken Nicaragua. The
iconic Roberto Clemente now comes to life in a
musical staring Modesto Lacén who looks
uncannily like Roberto Clemente.
DC-7: the Roberto Clemente Story is a musical
about the life of Roberto Clemente told by his
brother. In the musical you meet his loving older
brother who watched out for him, whom he wrote
letters to. You meet his parents, the strict but gentle
father and supportive mother. You see how he met
his wife. Was it love at first sight? What did his
father think about him following baseball. How
close was he to his older brother?
To a sold-out audience, the musical uses moving
props, projector backdrop, Latin beats and smooth
choreography to tell the story of Roberto Clemente
as a black Puerto Rican who spoke little English
but had a dream to make it to Las Grandes Ligas.
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True to life, the play is in both English and
Spanish. With Clemente speaking only Spanish
till he actually learned English with a thick
accent. No te preocupes, the Spanish was
accompanied with English subtitles.
True to life, the musical mixes the paradoxes of
the complex, multidimensional legend. Mixing
Spanish with English subtitles, Baseball with
Latin beats, Racism against a Puerto Rican –
because of his blackness, a proud Puerto Rican
who died for the country of Nicaragua.
DC-7 may be the name of the plane responsible
for the fatal accident but paradoxically, it means
something else as well. Sports aficionados,
History enthusiasts, and Flag-waving Latinos
alike, will all be surprised to see why this
musical is really called DC-7.
Don’t just sit on 1st or 2nd base,
RUN to see DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story.
It’s a grand slam!
Starring Modesto Lacén (Off-Broadway’s Celia
The Musical and La Barbería), Choreographed
by Luis Salgado (Broadway’s In The Heights).
Directed by Luis Caballero. Music Direction by
Harold Gutiérrez. Produced by Dr. Manuel A.
Morán
Now thru Dec 4th, 2011 at Teatro SEA, 107
Suffolk St.2nd floor, New York, NY, 10002
.
www.sea-ny.org
www.borimix.com/#!__dc7
Spanish. With Clemente speaking only Spanish
till he actually learned English with a thick
accent. No te preocupes, the Spanish was
accompanied with English subtitles.
True to life, the musical mixes the paradoxes of
the complex, multidimensional legend. Mixing
Spanish with English subtitles, Baseball with
Latin beats, Racism against a Puerto Rican –
because of his blackness, a proud Puerto Rican
who died for the country of Nicaragua.
DC-7 may be the name of the plane responsible
for the fatal accident but paradoxically, it means
something else as well. Sports aficionados,
History enthusiasts, and Flag-waving Latinos
alike, will all be surprised to see why this
musical is really called DC-7.
Don’t just sit on 1st or 2nd base,
RUN to see DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story.
It’s a grand slam!
Starring Modesto Lacén (Off-Broadway’s Celia
The Musical and La Barbería), Choreographed
by Luis Salgado (Broadway’s In The Heights).
Directed by Luis Caballero. Music Direction by
Harold Gutiérrez. Produced by Dr. Manuel A.
Morán
Now thru Dec 4th, 2011 at Teatro SEA, 107
Suffolk St.2nd floor, New York, NY, 10002
.
www.sea-ny.org
www.borimix.com/#!__dc7
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