I am currently editing a novel that has taken much longer than expected to edit. So a musical about trying to finish a musical is both entirely on point, and perhaps something I am not in the best place to analyze. Aguardiente is primarily in Spanish. I do speak some Spanish, but not enough to keep up with a musical. There were captions, so I was following along quite well, but when a few people cracked up at one character's name, I realized I had missed something. (I figured it out.) All of this is to say I have thoughts about the show. But I am aware that things that didn't quite seem clear to me may well be a cultural skill issue on my part, and less a fault of the show. This is a lot of setup to say I had a great time. Aguardiente is about two writers trying to finish a show about Latinx people, dealing with funding issues, competing requests for time and story ideas. And in the shower within the show Azuquita and Anis eventually decide leave their small town for New York where…
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