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Havana, -Celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the famous Cuban company Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba continue in Havana throughout April with the show Amigas at the Karl Marx Theater.

altAmigas had its world premier in Hamburg, Germany, in 2011, with a packed house, the Thalia Theater being totally sold out every night during the ensemble’s 19 performances.
The dance musical, or what is being called dansical by some US critics, stars renowned Cuban singers Sory, Maureen Iznaga, Niurka and Yaima Reyes and Gretell Barreiro, and dancers Carmen Rosa López, Caludia Valdivia and Ana López.   

Amigas features the fiction story of singers Mercedes, Caridad and Regla, members of the former famous trio Amigas, one of the most important such groups in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s in Cuba, which separate without an apparent cause at the top of its success and career. The mature and still beautiful women are made to tell the story of how and why they separated when audiences loved them most.

The show includes live music by the company’s band that will play Cuban music hits by renowned composers Juan Formell, Pablo Milanés, César Portillo de la Luz, Amaury Pérez, Giraldo Piloto, Alberto Vera and Osvaldo Farrés, among others. The show is generally directed by Lizt Alfonso; the script was written by Lizt Alfonso and Juan Carlos Coello; it’s musically directed by Efraín Chibás, set designs by Erick Grass and Lizt Alfonso, costume design by Erick Grass, Oscar de la Portilla and Lizt Alfonso and lighting design by Juan Carlos Coello.

The famous Cuban ensemble is made up of 26 ballerinas, 2 male dancers and one guest, six musicians and two guests. Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba has travelled all over the world and excelled on stages in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia,Germany,Belgium, France, Portugal, Canada, Bahrain, Egypt, South Africa and the United States, including Broadway.