More than fifty years ago, Russian film director Alexander Rou and screenwriter Nikolai Robertovich Erdman filmed the fairy tale Mrazik. The music was composed by Nikolai Budashkin. In Russia, this fairy tale took place without much success. But she celebrated extraordinary success with us. The excellent Czech dubbing made it so that whole generations of Czechs and Slovaks can almost memorize some passages of Mrázik.
We all know the fairy tale about the good and hard-working Nastěnka, the evil stepmother, the spoiled and ugly Marfuša, the handsome and proud Ivan, through whom fairy-tale creatures enter their lives - grandfather Hříbeček, grandmother Jaga, the magical Mrázik and others.
The creators of the musical (music by Boris Urbanek, lyrics by Jiří Sedláček) added a number of new musical numbers to the original film music (Nikolaj Budaškin). Each of the characters has its own song. In addition to Nastěnka and Ivánek, Baba Yaga, the cat Mourek, robbers, grandfather Hříbeček, animals in the forest, Marfuša, stepmother and a blind grandmother with a grate and others also sing.
Production team: set – Martin Víšek, costumes – Eliška Zapletalová, choreography – Martin Tomsa, choirmaster Kremena Pešaková