Productions · 2002
Lo scaldaletto
Directed by Bruno Napolitano
Cast
- Felice Sciosciammocca
- Massimo De Lisio
- Amalia, sua moglie
- Manuela Di Nola
- Michele, servitore di Felice
- Nick Cappa
- Rosella, serva di Felice
- Nicoletta Ciampini
- Antonio, avvocato
- Rocco Loiacono
- Don Anselmo, avvocato
- Bruno Napolitano
- Don Gaetano
- Luciano Pinto
- Dorotea, moglie di D. Gaetano
- Michelle de Souza
- Emma, ballerina
- Pina Zingales
- Direttore del Teatro
- Carlo Picchetti
- Pasquale, aiutante
- Ilario Colli
- Raffaele, Presidente
- Rino Pellone
- Giacomino, usciere
- Elio Raspa
- Gennarino, cafettiere
- Umberto Pantanella
- Nannina, ballerina
- Liz Lester
- Ernestina, ballerina
- Rosa Tizzano
- Cancelliere
- Peppino Tizzano
- Giudice
- Bill Vocisano
- Comparse
- Carlo Pennone, Steve de Souza
Commento musicale di Giorgio Manfredi
About the play
Felice and Amalia are newlyweds going through a rough patch. Michele, their servant, is doing his best to pit husband against wife by playing various tricks on them. He wants to go back to the fun times he and Felice enjoyed before Amalia came on the scene. Their quarrelling escalates until Felice and Amalia call in their respective lawyers to start proceedings for a legal separation. The plot takes various twists and turns with the arrival on the scene of sundry characters: an eccentric old dandy shadowed by his hectoring wife, an ambitious chorus girl protected by the old dandy, and ridiculous figures from the legal and judicial walks of life. The resulting scenario is as confusing as it is hilarious, especially in the final act, situated in a courtroom, where the newly weds battle against insurmountable odds to have their individual cases heard. However, the mischievous servant eventually owns up to the mayhem he has caused, but the mandatory sentence in the farce we call “life” can only be …a happy ending!
