The Auditorium and Convention Center The Batel host tomorrow, Thursday, February 7 (Semifinal), and Friday February 8 (Final), the conclusion of the XI Regional Competition Chirigotas Cartagena.
For the first time, the municipal auditorium will host this event, one of the highlights of the carnival Cartagena, which will increase the number of seats available.
And, of the 900 seats per session that could house the Teatro Circo, will move to the 1,400 people in the Batel.
It has sold about 3,700 tickets, a thousand more than when held at the Nuevo Teatro Circo, as confirmed from the Federation of Carnival Semifinal become available for some 335 towns, and 54 and 80 respectively for the first and second pass Grand Final.
The competition this year is organized in three sessions. Thus, participants in the semifinals tomorrow, starting at 19.00 hours, enjoy a single country and, while in the Grand Final, there are two passes, one at 20.00 hours and 23.30 hours another.
A total of eleven chirigotas participate in this event, of which only five will advance to the Final. Eight of them are in Cartagena: The Salivillas, Los Singuangos, Los Jopys, Pijo Acho, The Missing, The Robinsons Island, The The Chochonis and we always turn green, two of the town of Murcia Cabezo de Torres, to classics by fact and not the joke of Cabezo de Torres, and the eleventh is the joke of Beniaján, from the same locality.
Humor and irony are the hallmarks of lyrics that try to make the audience smile in the Batel.
Each joke will have a maximum of twenty minutes in which to convince the jury not only with their subjects, but also with its staging. Cuplés Two, two and a medley pasodobles up acting, shall follow the required time, if they will not be penalized.
The day of the Semifinal tickets are 7, 8 and 9 euros for the Final while the price is 10.11 and 12 euros.
Tickets can be purchased at the ticket office of Nuevo Teatro Circo and The Batel Auditorium and via internet.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena