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Rating: "You and your worldly life", someone would have told me...
Yes, because in my (very limited) event season I included this theater show. I saw the poster around Trieste, a poster with a decidedly unoriginal title: "Beware of those two". Attracted more by the name Marcorè than by that of the Roman singer, I decided to go.
I arrived, as usual, more than an hour early (I would say it's time to stop arriving so early, especially when you have had the ticket for two weeks and an already assigned seat...). I sat in my humble spot in the first gallery and watched the sky of the blue seats of the Rossetti's audience gradually fill up until there wasn't a single seat left. I looked around with interest, in an attempt to review the few rudiments of theater architecture learned for the upcoming Drama exam, but my attentive observation was finally interrupted by the dimming of the lights.
Thus began the show: a true Luca Barbarossa concert - a singer I know very little about and who, for some reason, reminds me of Pupo -, interspersed with amusing interludes by Neri Marcorè. The latter confirms himself as a great imitator and proves to be a decent singer and guitarist, while Barbarossa demonstrates himself as an adept supporting actor who perfectly fits the role of the victim of the host's "wickedness" from "For a Fistful of Books".
The show opens with a song sung by the two protagonists dressed the same: two twins with a thirty-centimeter height difference. Behind them is the group "I draghi di Comodo", which accompanies the duo for the entire evening. It continues with a small dialogue between the two, then Marcorè imitates Barbarossa himself, offering his personal version of "Roma spogliata".
The show continues with an alternation of music and comedy parts. The actor from the Marche region presents all his battle horses, including the classic "Una vita da prodiano" and "Sei già dentro il puttanaio" by the lard rocker Ligabue. Then it’s the turn of the fickle Capezzone with the screechy voice, of a hot line version Casini proposing to housewives with the slogan "politics is a dirty business, let's do it together". Minghi presents himself on stage with an improbable robe and hotel slippers: a snobbish, touchy, and ungrammatical character already proposed by Marcorè in the times of the gialappian Mai dire.. . Followed by the hilarious Gasparri, with his empty head and exaggerated accent, the antagonist Di Pietro and his rants; the irresistible Alberto Angela with an exaggerated gesturality: a character to make you die of laughter.
The cycle of imitations ends with a socially engaged Jovanotti singing to eradicate one of the biggest social plagues: the common cold.
During the concert, there are two tributes, certainly not insignificant: a version of "Amore che vieni, amore che vai" by the late Fabrizio De André and "L'odore" by Mr. Giorgio Gaber, an artist to whom Marcorè dedicated an entire cycle of shows a few years ago.
The show proved to be enjoyable, although at times it seemed a bit banal and repetitive to me. Maybe it's because I'm not a fan of Barbarossa, maybe it's because I follow Marcorè and know most of his repertoire, but I admit I expected something more, something that concerned the comic aspect more rather than the musical one.
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