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Gloria Estefan Is Working on a New Musical. About a Landfill
How Gloria Estefan will turn the story of a landfill into a musical.
Bono and the Edge took a shot at Spider-Man, Barry Manilow followed his muse to write about a singing group in Germany in the Thirties, and Cyndi Lauper rebooted her career by penning Kinky Boots. The upcoming musical Basura(Spanish for “garbage”) will feature original songs written by the Estefans and will tell the real-life tale of the Recycled Orchestra, a school ensemble from Paraguay that, over the last 20 years, has been making instruments out of refuse taken from a landfill in the capitol city of Asunción. To be able to play in their school’s orchestra, students began making instruments out of bent utensils, tin cans, dinner-table legs, discarded pizza pans, remnants of footwear, and whatever else they could find in the landfill.
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