Migguel Anggelo Recasts Negativity Into Something Of Value
metroweekly.comEnglish with an Accent.Making its world premiere, with a one-night-only engagement at GALA Hispanic Theatre on Friday, April 1, in advance of a scheduled November run at Lincoln Center, the show builds a poignant immigration story around original songs composed by Anggelo and frequent collaborator Jaime Lozano.
The immigrant in question happens to be an innocent caterpillar “fleeing the crime and noxious dictatorship of Venezuela.”Anggelo chose the caterpillar/butterfly metaphor not only for the narrative of metamorphosis but for its natural link to immigration.“The monarch butterfly, they fly in from Mexico to here, or from here to Mexico.
So it’s like, ‘Oh, it’s an immigration story!’ When they journey, human immigration is parallel to the immigration for the monarch butterflies.
And, ‘Ah, you hate us, but you can’t live without us. You need us.’ Actually there’s a song called ‘So Ironic,’ and it’s about that.
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