REDENCIÓN   (Copyright 2026 - Cubami Sound LLC)

Synopsis: 

Most of the dialogue if any, is in the music.  Any of the actors or actresses parts may be adapted to speak, dance, sing or play an instrument depending on their particular abilities.   The exception is Ingles. Throughout the scenes he is an enigma as he never speaks but he watches and listen intently and we see him writing.   In the last scene where he presents the script is where the audience understands that Ingles has been writing the script and the music about all of these people.  All of the audience will be given a card and of course the program with a QR code to the complete soundtrack of the musical.

Scene 01 - Desordenado   -  

mp3 - Disordered  (song completed)  Lyrics in Spanish

Cafe in Madrid  (Fico, Miguel, Cuban dancer/waitress) three other men and Ingles) 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 02 - Silencio   -  

mp3 - Silence - update  (update this song into all Spanish)

Cafe in Madrid  (Fico, Miguel, Cuban dancer/waitress, three other men and dancers)   singing about the abuse of young women in Havana and one who graphically depicts his abuse of underaged girls leaving some listeners shocked into silence. 

Scene 03 - Sufrimiento   -  

mp3 - Eternal Embrace   (revise to intertwine the chorus of Silencio into parts of Eternal Embrace)   lyrics in Spanish

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.  Fico is sad, crying, angry, raging, singing, and flipping between the memories of his mother in the song eternal embrace and singing the chorus to Silencio as he rages against his own silence. 

Scene 04 - Lagrimas   -

mp3 - Tears   (song is complete, in Spanish and we have video choreography of dancer in Holguin)  lyrics in Spanish

Apartment in Madrid - dream (Ingles) Dream of death notification of Dr Lopez daughter Giselle death when Giselle was prostitute on street in Madrid, and Ingles inability to help her or her mother. 

Scene 05 - Mascarillas  -  

mp3 - Masks  (update previous lyrics and arrangement)

Apartment in Madrid - Ingles is online as are Dr Fuentes, Sonia, Ariel) Ingles searches online for profiles in Holguin of young women the age of Dr Lopez daughter.  Ariel also has a profile on the site and swipes for Ingles as Ariel is introduced via the information projected on the screen above the stage as a transexual Jinetera in Holguin, Sonia is presented as nurse in Holguin with a child, making dates with men at night and Dr Fuentes is presented as a doctor looking for foreign options 

Scene 06 - Amor y Vida   -  

mp3 - Love and Life   (re-master the all Spanish version of this song)   lyrics - English original

Ride in Dr Palacios (cardiologist) taxi from airport in Holguin to Air Bnb with (Ingles, Dr Palacio Cardiologist)  mostly just view of the drive through Holguin, but Dr Palacio gets called into the hospital.  The song is the point to the scene other than to demonstrate that Dr Palacio the cardiologist must drive a taxi to support his family and it is clear that he and Ingles are friends. 

Scene 07 - La Linea   -

mp3 - The Line  (song is complete in all Spanish)  Lyrics in Spanish

Hospital in Holguin Palacios wife Dr Claudia Reyes brings in a baby for an emergency cardiogram who the audience will recognize as the Sonia's mother and child.   Palacio checks the grandmother as well and writes her the prescription for propanol twice a day as sung in the song, while patients lined up outside the office then come in for examination until the music fades. 

Scene 08 - Gracias Senor   -  

mp3 - Thank you Lord  (song is complete in all Spanish)  Lyrics in Spanish

Apartment in Holguin   (Dr Palacio, Dr Reyes, child)  Dr Palacio is home in bed and gets up when Dr Reyes arrives home exhausted and cannot even eat but just sits in the chair, holds her child and falls asleep dreaming of her horrifc day in pediatric emergency room reflected by photos which include photos of Sonia's child and grandmother, and  video of the spa and streets and hospitals and poverty of Holguin

Scene 09 - La Pintura    -  

mp3 - The Painter  (possibly add to lyrics for story)

Cafe in Holguin - like the Plaza de la Marqueta in Holguin  (Ingles, Dr Palacio, Dr Reyes, Dr Fuentes, Gatica)  Dr Fuentes song and life as a medical student and young doctor with photos of her barrio poverty and even poorer neighbors, photos of Freddy Camilo and Dr Fuentes reading Freddy's poetry.  This scene juxtaposes Dr Fuentes as a collegue of Dr Palacio and Dr Reyes who is looking for a form of redemption by romance of someone who will help her escape the island, but she is not yet at the jaded level of being a Jinetera as will be Sonia and Ariel in the next scene. 

Scene 10 - Mi Heroina   -  

mp3 - Mi Heroina   -  (song is probably fine as is)

Cafe in Holguin  (Ingles, Sonia, Gatica, Ariel)   Sonia is a nurse working as an escort at night to support her daughter and grandmother who are also patients of Dr Reyes and Dr Palacio.  She would take an offer to leave the island but she knows it is complicated and would result in a lengthy separation from her daughter and sick mother. 

Scene 11 - Jinetero   -  

mp3 - Jinetero - ES  (song is complete for this scene)

Cafe in Holguin  (Ingles, Ariel, Sonia, Gatica) story of Ariel, older sister and he molested by mother's men, but Ariel finds redemption in saving Sonia from a beating by a foreigner, protecting her, while himself getting high before he submits to the satisfaction of sadistic foreigners. 

Scene 12 - Asi Functiona   -

mp3 - How it Works - Jose Marti version (song is complete)

How It Works - (completed - opening of meeting version, there are various versions of this song in Spanish that could be used)  

Faltara Nada  (use Cuban guitar version)

Hágase tu voluntad (Lords Prayer to end meeting - bilingual - for children, but highly danceable and happy close to meeting)

Ingles response to Ariel performance in Scene 11 is to play Asi Functiona - and lead Sonia and Ariel to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting as San Jose church in Holguin.  The soft dancing on the walk to the church contrast with the intensity of the prior scene, Jinetero describing the sexual tourism in Havana and Holguin.  At the church the key is thrown from the second floor window and music changes to traditional version of How It Works, then Faltara Nada and Hágase tu voluntad, as the meeting is reflected in the music and dance choreography reflecting the typical acceptance recovering alcoholics and drug addicts have around the world for people like Ariel and Sonia.  This is part of their REDEMPTION.

Scene 13 - El Beneficio  - 

mp3s: Ayúdame, Señor  (completed, use as is)  

Zapaticos del Rosas - original or Zapaticos del Rosas - zumba  (use either or update to a better dance arrangement for Oriente authenticity)   Zapaticos - lyrics - Spanish

Humanidad, (completed but could be re-arranged for dancers)

Azmascomos (update this version for Spanish lyrics for Oriente and coordinate with dancers) 

Cafe Guantamera)  (completed - use as is)

Party at hotel in Holguin (all Holguin cast )  The scene is a party that is a memorial benefit for Freddy Camilo who died in October of 2025 at the age of 56.  The opening song and dance is the Freddy poem Ayudame Senor, followed bythe other songs.  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 - their REDEMPTION.  This is also a bit of REDEMPTION for Dr Reyes who had the nightmares wishing she could help the child on the street ourside the salon - Gatica.   The instrumental Mi Isla Te Amo is played softly in the background as they wave goodbye to Ingles, at the end of the scene.

Scene 14 - Mi Isla Te Amo

mp3 - My Island I Love You - (competed - use as is)

Back at the cafe in Madrid (Fico, Miguel, Cuban dancer/waitress, three other men, dancers, Ingles, Dr Lopez)  Fico takes the microphone again.  Ingles hands Miguel and Fico a copy of a stack of papers (script) to Redención and Fico flips his copy to the back page and then steps up to the microphone to perform Mi Isla Te Amo and the cover of the script Redención is projected onto the overhead screen and the audience can see it is written by "Zado Ingles"  As FICO turns the page of the script in his hand the overhead screen shows the script turned to "CANCION FINAL - Mi Isla Te Amo, escribir a "Zado Ingles".  As Fico sings the Madrid cast gets up to dance leaving Ingles and Dr Lopez sitting at the table watching the performance.   As the song continues the cast from the Holguin scenes joins onstage singing, in a way bringing the island and exiles together, while scenes of the island's natural beauty and prior video used in the play are projected on the screen above with the lyrics so that the audience can sing along in the reprise.   

Note:   Most of the dialogue if any is in the music.  Any of the actors or actresses parts may be adapted to speak, dance, sing or play an instrument depending on their particular abilities.   The exception is Ingles. Throughout the scenes he is an enigma as he never speaks but he watches and listen intently and we see him writing.   In the last scene where he presents the script is where the audience understands that Ingles has been writing the script and the music about all of these people.  All of the audience will be given a card and of course the program with a QR code to the complete soundtrack of the musical.