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Vaculík’s acclaimed dance musical Freddie – The King of Queen is a portrayal of the life
and artistic career of Queen‘s singer Freddie Mercury, who became one of the
most famous victims of AIDS.
The J. K. Tyl Theater will
dedicate the repeat performance on October 2 to the prevention and fight
against this disease and will support the activities of the Positive Life
charitable foundation. The performance on the New Stage will be followed by a
few additions from QUEENIE band and the visitors will have an
opportunity to see a photo exhibition in the foyer. There will also be an
autograph ceremony with the main performers: Michael
Kluch, Richard Ševčík, Iva Marešová
and soprano Monika
Sommerová, who will sing the famous opera duet Barcelona together
with the band. The New Theater building will be illuminated in red all
night long.
„Freddie Mercury would have been seventy years old this year, and
twenty-five years have passed since his death, so we have decided to make this
performance special in way and help the good thing at the same time. We want to
express our support for the Positive Life foundation, which has focused on
preventing and fighting AIDS for a long time,“ says the theater‘s art
secretary Michal Lieberzeit.
From September 27 to October 2, an exhibition of black-and-white photographs
capturing the everyday life of people infected with HIV will be placed in the
New Stage foyer. The exhibition is traveling and besides Pilsen it could be seen
in Prague, Munich and Zurich. In addition to photos, there will be information
boards dedicated to the aforementioned patients in the foyer, through which they
provide an opportunity to look into their private lives afflicted with the
malicious disease. „I think the J.K.Tyl Theater contributes enormously to the
prevention and fight against AIDS by having a performance about Freddie Mercury
on the repertoire,“ said Miroslav Hlavatý, chairman of the
foundation’s board of trustees. The patronage of the event was taken over by
the Minister of Health of the Czech Republic MUDr. Svatopluk Němeček.