For this year's excursion into the world of zarzuela, Thalia Spanish Theater's director Angel Gil Orrios turned to two works of genero chico (short variety). The first, La Gran Via (1886, with later modifications), satirized the delays and cost overruns in constructing Madrid's famous central grand boulevard in the 1880s. Eight women with icon-laden signboards extolled their architectural treasures on as many older streets and locales to a bemused Caballero (Rafael Lebron), who in reality has fathered the new street and a Passer-by (Fermin Suarez).
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