“Comincium … because we missed you so much”. It is the simplest and therefore also the most sincere explanation for the title of the show, ‘Comincium’ precisely, that Ale & Franz propose until February 27 al Parioli theater in Rome, with a text written by Alessandro Besentini and Francesco Villa themselves – these are the names at the registry office of Ale and Franz – together with Antonio De Santis and Alberto Ferrari who also signs the direction. On stage, with the two Milanese comedians, too Alice Grasso in the dual roles of singer and actressas well as a band formed by Luigi Schiavone on guitar, Fabrizio Palermo on bass, Francesco Luppi on keyboards and Marco Orsi on drums.
“Here we are: it seems like a century has gone by!“, say Ale and Franz, with explicit reference to the two-year blockade due to the pandemic from Covid, evoking” the memories of the curtain that opens, the headlights that come on, your smiles, the applause, the theater and the nostalgia for that atmosphere of complicity that enveloped us all, from the stage to the audience, making us participate every evening of a unique and unrepeatable moment: the show“.
Show that does not limit itself to proposing the gags and the ‘situation comedies’ that have made the two actors popular, both in theater and on TV, but which inserts various songs among those that once defined with the term ‘skits’, taken basically from the Milanese musical repertoire: gives ‘But me’ song of the mala led to success by Ornella Vanonito the songs of Enzo Jannacci and Giorgio Gaber, from ‘Life’ to ‘Freedom’. “It seems a century has passed, but here we are to start again, with a great desire to meet you again and with the desire to have fun and entertain you”. A fully successful intention, judging by the laughter and applause at the Roman premiere of Parioli.
(Of Enzo Bonaiuto)