NATIONAL PASTIME Returns to Mexico this June

By: Rebecca Russo Mar. 29, 2019

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National Pastime, the award winning Al Tapper musical, is heading back to Guadalajara, Mexico, where it has already won a boatload of accolades. Opening June 1st at the Teatro Experimental de Jalisco, National Pastimeis the story of a small town radio station in Iowa during the Great Depression which creates a fictional baseball team. The screwball comedy musical will once again be directed by Mauricio Cedeno, winner of the prestigious Theatrical Merit Award in 2016. The cast will feature Victor Aceves, Vanessa Arroyo, Enrique Valdez Arce, Franz Bomthanley, Luisa Cortes, Agni Gonzalez, Blanca Montoya, Alejandra Moreno, Giselle Restelli, Joaquin Romero and Mafer Santes.

National Pastime was originally produced by Algonquin Theater Productions and has played throughout the United States, including New York, Washington, Phoenix, Austin, Scranton, Bucks County Playhouse and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown before being performed in Mexico in 2017. In Guadalajara it won several awards, including Best Production, Best Director (Cedeno) and Best Actress (Giselle Restelli),

The collaboration between Algonquin Theater Productions in New York and Cedeno Productions in Guadalajara has been an exceptionally fruitful one. Together they have produced three original musicals in Mexico -Sessions, National Pastime and The Paparazzi and this past February they worked on a presentation of The Paparazzi in both English and Spanish which appeared in New York. All three shows have music and lyrics by Al Tapper.

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