“Minority” means contrasts of Russian life ”, - so the composer Alexander Zhurbin described his new musical,

which premiered on July 28, 2015. The ceremonial views of the northern capital are combined with paintings here.

provincial backwater, gold-embroidered velvet camisoles - with padded jackets and linen shirts, luxurious wigs

Catherine II's courtiers - with greasy beards and scythes peasants floor-length. According to the directors for

making braids and beards took kilometers of rope - it was enough to pave the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow,

and the costumes took about 1000 square meters of burlap and flange. There is in this performance and snow-white imperial

a carriage, and a dilapidated wooden fence, a river, a bridge, and even a dovecot, where Mitrofanushka nedorosl settled. One of the current

Persons will be made by Catherine II, to whom Pravdin comes in with a petition for staging a new comedy. So above the layer of events

in the estate of Prostakovs a story about the city authorities appears. Creating a controversial image of the power-hungry empress,

Librettist Lev Yakovlev turned to her memoirs and compiled a dictionary of Catherine's words and expressions. Almost all that heroine

will say on stage - a compilation of phrases that Catherine the Great herself has ever said. Gennady Chikhachev focused performance

mainly on the school age audience, putting the action brightly, dynamically, with an abundance of choreographic numbers,

without abstruse riddles and fashionable now flirting with the "basic instinct." In the musical, sharp humor, hooliganism and enthusiasm

combined with deep reflections on the eternal Russian problems: dependency, disrespect for the individual, despotism, the blind

parents' love for their child ... and about the problem of power, which does not see and does not hear those it controls. There is a place

to the tender feelings of Milon and Sophia, the intrigues of the restless Prostakovs and the kind magic of Starodum. Saving black and white

contrast images of the play Fonvizin, the play presents the story is not so straightforward. The point at the end of the performance is

comma calling for reflection. Not just to laugh at the disgraced Prostakovs together, but, tearing my eyes off the stage,

look around, look inside yourself. That, having seen fault, with enthusiasm of hopeless romantics to join with them in

fight - and make the world a better place.

Staging group:

Composer - Honored Artist of Russia Alexander ZHURBIN

Librettist - Lev Yakovlev

Director -

Honored Artist of Russia, Honored Artist of Russia Gennady Chikhachev

Musical Director and Conductor - Honored Artist of Russia Vladimir YANKOVSKY

Scenery - Honored Worker of Culture Tatyana MIROVA

Costumes - Prize winner of the Government of Russia Elena BOCHKOVA

Ballet master - winner of the international competition Ekaterina FOMICHEVA

Choirmaster - International Competition Winner Elena KONOREVA

Cast:

Prostakova - Honored Artist of Russia Lyudmila Polyanskaya

Prostakov - Vladimir Kurkin, Evgeny Bashlykov

Mitrofan - the winner of the Moscow Government Prize Vadim Popovichev

Skotinin - Sergey Ryazanov, Anton Fadeev

Sofya - Natalia Rebrova, Dina Velez-Morozova, Zhanna Andreeva

Milon - Konstantin Skripalev, Valery Polovinkin

Eremeevna - Honored Artist of Russia Tatyana Petrova,

Honored Artist of Russia Natalia Zamniborsch,

Starodum - Yury Krasov, Stanislav Yakubovsky

Pravdin - Oleg Zimin

Catherine II - Honored Artist of Russia Anna Alt

Kuteikin - Evgeny Bashlykov, Vladimir Kurkin

Tsyfirkin - Anton Fadeev, Sergey Ryazanov

Vralman - Grigory Zakhariev

Trishka - Stanislav Shirokov, Honored Artist of Russia Vladlen Mikhalkov