Gloria Estefan and Daughter to Write New Musical

Bono and the Edge took a shot at Spider-Man, Barry Manilow adopted his muse to jot down a few singing group in Germany within the Thirties, and Cyndi Lauper rebooted her profession by penning Kinky Boots. Within the newest occasion of a pop star venturing into musical theater, Gloria Estefan and her daughter, songwriter and singer Emily Estefan, introduced right this moment an in-the-works present about … a scrap-metal orchestra.

The upcoming musical Basura (Spanish for “rubbish”) will function authentic songs written by the Estefans and can inform the real-life story of the Recycled Orchestra, a college ensemble from Paraguay that, during the last 20 years, has been making devices out of refuse taken from a landfill within the capitol metropolis of Asunción. The present is about to open in Atlanta in Might 2026.

The Recycled Orchestra is likely one of the extra uncommon pop success tales of the century. Households residing in a low-income neighborhood close to the Cateura Landfill in Asunción would scavenge the world for something usable. To have the ability to play of their faculty’s orchestra, college students started making devices out of bent utensils, tin cans, dinner-table legs, discarded pizza pans, remnants of footwear, and no matter else they might discover within the landfill. Launched about 20 years in the past, the newly christened Recycled Orchestra was chronicled within the award-winning doc Landfill Harmonic. Enjoying each classical and native people music, the Orchestra has since jammed with Stevie Surprise and opened for Metallica on a South American tour.

The mission started with producer Michael Shulman (Hamilton, Sundown Boulevard), who fell in love with the doc after which introduced the concept to Estefan. (In keeping with a manufacturing supply, Shulman “had met her husband Emilio Estefan Jr. at a celebration years in the past and all the time saved Emilio’s enterprise card in his pockets.”) Having already written the musical On Your Toes! along with her husband Emilio Estefan, Estefan was stated to be wanting to take one other crack on the kind, and along with her daughter. At a gathering in Miami, Shulman introduced Estefan a recycled violin from the college, which helped seal the deal. Estefan mom and daughter have since written over a dozen authentic songs for the present.

Basura additionally entails the work of theater professionals like director Michael Greif (Lease, Pricey Evan Hansen) and musical supervisor Alex Lacamoire (Hamilton). The present’s e-book was written by Karen Zacarías. Present plans name for Basura to maneuver to Broadway after its Atlanta run subsequent 12 months.