The Copla Musical
The Copla Musical : how a drag sensation, finds love… yet always struggles to merge her Spanish past with her American future.
The copla is a form of Spanish popular genre of risqué cabaret songs which had its heyday in the 1930s. The lyrics often feature marginalized characters, including prostitutes, sailors, escaped convicts, gypsies, and so on, and have themes based on the “illegitimacy of all relationships outside the recognized heterosexual marriage” (i.e., mistreated women,…