Musical Theatre Composer, Jaime Lozano and Singer/Director, Florencia Cuenca are bringing DESAPARECIDAS to Joe’s Pub on Monday, March 28th, 2022 at 7:00 pm. Their show explores the systematic oppression of women in the fight to end gender-based violence and the killing of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, México. DESAPARECIDAS celebrates the individual lives of women in México, illuminating the challenge between embracing honored cultural customs while fighting for autonomy in a dangerous world of machismo.
The show includes an all female line-up and band, along with the concert featuring Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, In the Heights film), Aline Mayagoitia (Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation), Sonia de los Santos (Latin Grammy nominee), Majo Rivero and Florencia Cuenca herself. This musical was developed as part of The Civilians R&D Group 2021 and in a 2021 artist residency at JACK.
“Desaparecidas, shows a resolve to go further, an ability to question more deeply, and a commitment to tell stories more respectfully and, dare I say, more truthfully.” – Héctor Flores Komatsu
DESAPARECIDAS
Conceived by Jaime Lozano, Florencia Cuenca and Rachel Stevens
Music by Jaime Lozano
Book by Georgina Escobar
Lyrics by Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca
Music directed by Jhoely Garay
Arrangements and orchestrations by Jaime Lozano and Jesús Altamira
New York City
Monday, March 28th at 7:00pm
Joe’s Pub
Tickets to DESAPARECIDAS are $20 and there is a 2 drink or $12 food minimum, per person, during every show at Joe’s Pub. For more information, please visit https://publictheater.org/
Florencia Cuenca is a Mexican singer-actor-writer-director and has been performing on stage since she was three years old. Jaime is a Mexican musical theatre composer-arranger-
Jaime Lozano is a revolutionary musical theatre composer who can currently be seen in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial feature film debut ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’ alongside Jason Robert Brown, Tom Kitt and Stephen Schwartz, and other celebrated Broadway composers. Lozano will be joined onstage by his “Familia,” an all-Latinx/Latino/Latine lineup of the best Broadway and Off-Broadway performers.
JOE’S PUB, a program of the Public Theater, was named for Public Theater founder Joseph Papp. Since it opened in 1998, Joe’s Pub has played a vital role in The Public’s mission of supporting young artists while providing established artists with an intimate space to perform and develop new work. Joe’s Pub presents the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community, and artistic freedom. The organization also offers opportunities like New York Voices, an artist commissioning program that helps musicians develop original live performance projects; Joe’s Pub Working Group, an artist development initiative; The Vanguard Award & Residency, a yearlong series that celebrates the career of a prolific and influential artist and has honored Nona Hendryx, Judy Collins, and Laurie Anderson; and nationwide programming partnerships. Currently commissioned artists include Alicia Hall Moran, Daniel J. Watts, Haig Papazian, Samora Pinderhughes, Sunny Jain, and Yacine Boulares. Joe’s Pub Working Group’s 2021-2022 cohort includes Jaime Lozano, Kirsten Maxwell, Roopa Mahadevan, Salty Brine, and Sarah Elizabeth Charles. With its intimate atmosphere and superior acoustics, Joe’s Pub presents artists from all over the world as part of The Public’s programming downtown at its Astor Place home, hosting approximately 800 shows and serving over 100,000 audience members annually. New York Voices is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
THE PUBLIC continues the work of its visionary founder Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation’s first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public’s wide breadth of programming includes an annual season of new work at its landmark home at Astor Place, Free Shakespeare in the Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, the Mobile Unit touring throughout New York City’s five boroughs, Public Forum, Under the Radar, Public Lab, Public Works, Public Shakespeare Initiative, and Joe’s Pub. Since premiering HAIR in 1967, The Public continues to create the canon of American Theater and is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Girl From the North Country. Their programs and productions can also be seen regionally across the country and around the world. The Public has received 59 Tony Awards, 184 Obie Awards, 55 Drama Desk Awards, 58 Lortel Awards, 34 Outer Critic Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, 56 AUDELCO Awards, 6 Antonyo Awards, and 6 Pulitzer Prizes. publictheater.org
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