With "La Megabizcocho" and Roberto Cabral
Baldomero Jimenez, pianist
Regina Orozco is a singular performer: beautiful, slashingly funny, operatically-trained (at the Juilliard School), larger than life, and super-sized, she is equal parts Divine, Bette Midler and Latin pop diva. In Mexico City, she stars on television, stage, recordings and film but is probably best known for her portrayal of Coral Fabre, the obese nurse in the 1997 film Deep Crimson.
In Bed With Regina is the kitsch-drenched hallucination of a long-time insomniac. After finally discovering sleeping pills, she overdoses and kicks off a tour of multiple personalities, bouncing from pain to hysteria to euphoria and careening through a host of musical styles: rancheras, quebraditas, blues, swing, bossa nova, boleros, opera and pop ballads. In her world divorced from reality, she has a faithful friend, servant and aide-de-camp, Miu-Miu, interpreted by Roberto Cabral.
The performance is part of Mexico Now, the month-long, city-wide, multi-disciplinary celebration of Mexican arts and culture sponsored by Arts International.
In English and Spanish
