musical METRO W BUFFO

The world is changing,
Walls fall, borders open
Theatre is changing too
Only dreams remain unchanged...
... the dreams of young people, our dreams
A group of young performers talk about their dreams, and every note sung, every beat danced is a dream come true. So we see on stage a passion and enthusiasm, dancing and singing that the Polish theater did not know. There is love, madness and youth. And all this makes the line between theater and reality become fluid, the action of the performance seems to go far beyond the theatrical foyer, and time becomes exclusively a function of imagination.
“SUBWAY”. Somewhere between fiction and reality... Street performers, singers and dancers put on a spectacle for passengers on underground subway platforms. Its creator and animator is Jan, for whom the metro is home and the underground — a way of life. The performance causes a sensation, and young artists receive an offer to work in a commercial theater. It is a story of dreams and disappointments, of passion and betrayal, of youthful ideals and the power of money, and above all it is a story of romantic love.
libretto and lyrics — AGATA and MARYNA MIKLASZEWSKIE
music — JANUSZ STOKŁOSA
scenography — JANUSZ SOSNOWSKI
sound — JAROSŁAW REGULSKI, KRZYSZTOF JAROSZEWSKI
costumes — EWA KRAUZE and MAGDALENA MACIEJEWSKA
light — MIECZYSŁAW KOZIOŁ
laser effects — DANUTA BILIŃSKA

script, choreography and direction — JANUSZ JÓZEFOWICZ
premiere — 30.01.1991 at the Drama Theatre in Warsaw
premiere at the MINSKOFF Theater on Broadway /USA/ on April 16, 1992
CAST:
Anka — Magdalena Dabkowska/Katarzyna Granecka
Jan — Jerzy Grzechnik/Jakub Jozefowicz
Filip — Maciej Robakiewicz/Mateusz Jakubiec
Max — Mariusz Czajka
Vocalists:
Magdalena Dąbkowska, Wiktoria Kostrzewa, Katarzyna Granecka, Daria Domitrz, Weronika Stańkowska, Antonina Goworek, Kalina Józefowicz, Sofia Polupanova, Katarzyna Lach,
Jerzy Grzechnik, Artur Chamski, Filip Czyżykowski, Maksymilian Wieckowski, Jakub Kamiński, Jan Kraska, Olaf Młodziński, Jakub Rutkowski, Dawid Krasinski
Dancers:
Aleksandra Kosińska, Inga Gołębiowska, Julia Kaczmarek, Patrycja Nowak, Iga Ryś, Olivia Zyga, Amelia Szymczyk, Nadia Rosiak, Olivia Stankowska, Pola Niemirska
Paweł Orłowski, Błażej Ciszek, Patryk Darlak, Daniel Pustelnik, Krystian Jabłoński
Duration of the performance — 140 min. A show played with a break.
The show is intended for viewers over 10 years old.

Content warnings: suicide, death.
Warnings about the effects used in the performance: laser effects, loud music, flashing lights.
Official website of the musical

We kindly ask you to arrive at the theatre in advance. Late viewers will be admitted to the hall at a convenient time of the performance. As long as shore seats are available, Audience Service in such a situation does not guarantee seats from purchased tickets. A late Spectator does not receive a refund for the ticket, nor is he entitled to exchange it.

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(...) This is a great achievement of Polish culture. These brilliantly talented young people appeared in one of the most famous venues of the world theater and forced the American audience to applaud them standing. This is an event of enormous importance.
/Prof. Zbigniew Brzeziński - former adviser to the President of the US/
(...) The musical “Metro” became the first - and so far the only - “cult” theatrical event in Poland. No Polish drama, comedy, opera, operetta, cabaret or revue show reached 950 performances, none of which was watched by almost a million spectators. But the production of “Metra” is not only a story of incredible outright box office success, as well as artistic success. This is primarily an optimistic story of a group of young people. People who have proven that if you have talent and ambition, even in Poland you can be successful, get money and fame. /Antenna/

Cinematography: Wojciech Pepliński

They wrote about the spectacle:
Gazeta Wyborcza