Malaga (Spain), Feb. 21. The Spanish actor and director Antonio Banderas is screening a musical in English on the figure of the artist Pablo Picasso, who died fifty years ago, which will premiere in the city of Malaga (southern Spain).
Banderas talks about it with “important people from Broadway”, theater shows in New York, and hopes “that it will eventually become a reality”, according to his remarks on Tuesday.
He announced that, if this materializes, the world premiere will take place at the Teatro del Soho in Malaga, the city where Picasso was born, while Banderas was born in the neighboring town of Benalmádena in Malaga.
“There is a Picasso-related project, but I can’t say more about it,” he answered questions from the press during the Soho Pop Symphony Orchestra’s presentation concert.
“It would be an important step” because it would open in Malaga “with the original company that would go to Broadway” and “it would be unusual for an American company to present it in Spain”.
It also “closes the rights” to a new musical in Soho, for a title that is “among the pillars of American musical theater” and for which the negotiation is “very advanced”, he said.
Another of his latest works is a “tiny” character in the new film of the “Indiana Jones” saga, the filming of which was delayed due to the accident suffered by the main actor, Harrison Ford.
He was offered the role because of his good relationship with director Steven Spielberg after producing the two “Zorro” movies starring Banderas.