DRUSILLA FOER IN "ELEGANZISSIMA" AL TEATRO DAL VERME - MILANO, 29.11.2017

She has captivated viewers, episode after episode, in her television career as a judge on the acclaimed season of "Strafactor." Drusilla Foer, the charismatic style icon, brought her recital "Eleganzissima" back to the stage on November 29, 2017, at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan. This was the first stop on a tour that has seen her perform in theaters across Italy's major cities through spring 2018. Subsequent performances were on December 6 at the Teatro Colosseo in Turin, on the 13th at the Celebrazioni in Bologna, on the 16th at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, on December 31st at the Teatro Niccolini in Florence, and finally on February 3, 2018, at the Teatro Palazzo in Bari. Tickets for the Milan, Turin, Bologna, and Rome dates are on sale through Ticketone, the Florence show through BoxOffice, and the Bari show through BookingShow. "Eleganzissima," the recital written and performed by Drusilla Foer, recounts, with a blend of wit and poignant melancholy, anecdotes from her extraordinary life, lived in Italy, Cuba, America, and Europe, and studded with encounters and close friendships with extraordinary people and famous figures, somewhere between the real and the plausible. Essential to the biographical narrative in "Eleganzissima" are the songs from the show, which Drusilla performs live accompanied by her musicians: Maestro Loris di Leo on piano, who also handled the arrangements for the show; special guest Nico Gori on clarinet and saxophone; Ettore Bonafè on vibraphone and percussion; and Nico Vernuccio on double bass. The artistic direction is by Franco Godi, a composer for advertising, television, and film since the 1960s, and the discoverer and architect of successful hip hop in Italy from the 1990s onward. Godi also serves as producer with his Best Sound label, and finally makes a cameo appearance on guitar. The setlist features songs by composers as diverse as the emotional pace of the recital: from Lelio Luttazzi to Jobim, through unforgettable songs by Amy Winehouse, Giorgio Gaber, Enzo Jannacci, David Bowie, and Don Backy, to more hidden gems like "Vucchella" by Tosti/D'Annunzio and a song by the early 20th-century Milanese singer Milly, each tied to specific episodes in Madame Foer's adventurous life. Among others, there's a personal reinterpretation of "I Will Survive," Gloria Gaynor's hit, widely considered a hymn to fun, which inspired Madame Foer's first official music video, available on her YouTube channel. The tour's executive production is entrusted to two companies that are a guarantee of high-quality, spectacular entertainment: Bananas, which invented epochal television formats (Zelig, among others) and produces and distributes one-of-a-kind theater shows (Ornano, Mannino, Brignano, Zalone, among many others); and Gianmario Longoni's Showbees, a long-time pioneer in the pursuit of innovative theater (he is responsible for the arrival in Italy of shows such as Swan Lake, Cirque Eloize, and Blue Man Group, among many others). Videography and editing by Antonio Garbisa