REDENCIÓN

Synopsis:  The story begins in Madrid at Doña Tecla, an elegant and dimly lit restaurant dripping with old-world Spanish charm, where an older Cuban man from Camagüey named Fico sits at a table with four loud, modern businessmen. When a graceful waitress approaches to take their order, Fico recognizes her as a classical dancer from the Teatro Lope de Vega. He abruptly stands, shouts "¡Me Desordeno!", and adopts the suave persona of a "Cuban Sinatra".

As the 1950s Havana jazz swing song "Desordenado" begins to play, Fico pulls the waitress to the center of the stage for a nostalgic, elegant Cha-Cha, lip-syncing to the romantic duet. The choreography features a dynamic "service dance"—while the businessmen roll their eyes at Fico's theatricality, the waitress seamlessly pirouettes out of Fico's romantic embrace to jot down the businessmen's orders, winking before spinning right back into Fico's arms.

The scene concludes as the music's intimate vocal duet fades out; the waitress exits the stage, and Fico wipes his brow, taking a bow to the men's applause before quietly making his exit toward the bathroom ("Bano").

Scene 01 - Desordenado   -  mp3 - Disordered  -  cafe in Madrid  (Fico, Miguel, Cuban dancer/waitress) three other men)   

Scene 02 - Silencio   -  mp3 - Silence - update  -  cafe in Madrid  (Fico, Miguel, Cuban dancer/waitress, three other men and dancers)   singing about the abuse of young women in Havana

Scene 03 - Sufrimiento   -  mp3 - Eternal Embrace  -  home office in Madrid (Fico, Doctor Lopez, Ingles)  Fico's exile suffering due to the abuse of women in Cuba like his mother, by foreign men

Scene 04 - Lagrimas   -  mp3 - Tears  -  apartment in Madrid - dream (Ingles) Dream of death of Dr Lopez daughter while prostitute on street in Madrid, and inability to help her or her mother. 

Scene 05 - Mascarillas  -  mp3 - Masks  -  apartment in Madrid - online (Ingles, Dr Fuentes, Sonia, Ariel) Ingles searches online for profiles in Holguin of young women the age of Dr Lopez daughter 

Scene 06 - Amor y Vida   -  mp3 - Love and Life  -  ride in Taxi from airport in Holguin to Air Bnb with (Ingles, Dr Palacio Cardiologist)  mostly just view of the drive through Holguin

Scene 07 - La Linea   -  mp3 - The Line  -  hospital in Holguin (Dr Palacio and grandmother of Sonia with Sonia's child referred from Pediatric ER) shows the poverty and humanity and Dr Palacio taking the referral from his wife Dr Reyes

Scene 08 - Gracias Senor   -  mp3 - Thank you Lord  -  apartment in Holguin   (Dr Palacio, Dr Reyes, child)  Dr Reyes dream scene from her day in pediatric ER photos of Sonia's child and grandmother, video of Holguin

Scene 09 - La Pintura    -  mp3 - The Painter  -  cafe in Holguin (Ingles, Dr Palacio, Dr Reyes, Dr Fuentes, Gatica)  Dr Fuentes song and life as a medical student and young doctor.

Scene 10 - Mi Heroina   -  mp3 - My Hero  -  cafe in Holguin  (Ingles, Dr Fuentes, Sonia, Gatica, Ariel)   Sonia working as prostitute to support her daughter and grandmother who is a patient of Dr Palacio

Scene 11 - Jinetero   -  mp3 - TO BE WRITTEN -  cafe in Holguin  (Ingles, Ariel, Sonia, Gatica) story of Ariel, abused by alcoholic father, molested but found redemption in hearing a scream of a woman being beaten by a drunk foreigner and that was how he and Sonia became friends

Scene 12 - Asi Functiona   -  mp3 - How it Works  -  AA meeting at church in Holguin (Ingles, Ariel, Sonia, AA attendees)  at end all at meeting dance to Hágase tu voluntad, Faltara Nada.  Ariel, Sonia and Gatica are accepted the recovering alcoholics and drug addicts.  Very typical around the world in AA groups. 

Scene 13 - El Beneficio  (Mp3s: Zapaticos del Rosas - update to dance,  Ayudame Senor, Humanidad, Azmascomos- update for Holguin and Cafe Guantamera)  party at hotel in Holguin (all Holguin cast )  At the end, Sonia and Ariel are handed the keys to the Expensive nail salon by Dr Reyes friend who is leaving for Miami.  Ariel, Sonia and Gatica will run the salon and live in the apartment above it.   Mi Isla Te Amo is play softly in the background as they wave goodbye to Ingles, but the song is not featured in full until the finale in Scene 14 back at the cafe in Madrid.

Scene 14 - Mi Isla Te Amo - mp3 - My Island I Love You - cafe in Madrid (Fico, Miguel, Cuban dancer/waitress, three other men, dancers, Ingles, Dr Lopez)  Fico takes the microphone again.  Ingles hands Miguel a copy of a stack of papers (script) to Redencion as in the original play.  Cast dances to Mi Isla Te Amo, as cast of Holguin joins them onstage singing with scenes of Cuba's natural beauty are projected on the screen above with the lyrics so that the audience can sing along.