Antonio Banderas brings Richard Gere to Malaga « Euro Weekly News

Richard Gere took a trip and visited his pal Antonio Banderas in Malaga on Thursday (January 9) to enjoy his musical, Gypsy.

The star of Pretty Woman, The Cotton Club and American Gigolo did not hesitate to accept the offer of a seat at the Soho Theater to see one of the last performances that the gypsy company gave in Malaga before they left for Madrid.

Antonio Banderas, the director of the musical, welcomed the actor to the theater at the end of the performance. Gere praised Gypsy’s spectacular and immense talent of the cast and crew. He also congratulated Marta Ribera for her great performance and shared a few words with the cast, “even though I don’t understand everything in Spanish, I loved the show,” said the Hollywood star.

Richard Gere praised the cast of Banderas’ Gypsy

Enjoying its peak of popularity, Gypsy ends in Malaga with all tickets sold out, and it is not until February 7 that the company returns to the board at the Apolo Theater in Madrid.

With a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy has been performed for the first time in Spain, brought here by Antonio Banderas, who has created a very abstract and purely artistically different version of the show. The musical has around thirty actors on stage and 26 musicians from the Larios Pop Orchestra in Soho.