Floricienta

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Floricienta
Genre	Romance/Musical
Running time	60 min
Creator(s)	Cris Morena
Starring	See Cast and characters below
Country of origin	Argentina
Original run	March 15, 2004–2005
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Floricienta is a telenovela from Argentina that ran from 2004 to 2005.

1 Background
2 Cast and characters
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Background

Floricienta is loosely based on the story of Cinderella. The plot revolves around a Flor, a poor Italian-Argentininan girl whose life changes when she meets Federico Fritzenwalden, the son of a rich German-Argentinian who falls in love with her upon meeting her. But Federico has a girlfriend, Delfina (the witch), who wants Federico because of his money. Federico's brothers and his sister hate Delfina. But when Flor comes to the Fritzenwaldens' residence, everybody loves her.

The show title is a mix between Cenicienta (Cinderella in Spanish-speaking countries) and Flor (the main character's name). The show wasn't heavily-influenced by the original Cinderella story, besides the fact Fede is "Flor's Prince Charming" and the fact Floricienta trademark is her shoes (that she forgot at Fede's house during the first episode, when the kids throw a party without Fede concent, where Flor's band was hired to play, but he ends up coming back from Germany before the planned and everybody runs from the house. A angry Federico demands to know who had the idea for the party and the kids blame "the singer", so Federico decide to find the singer and the only think he have from her was her shoe, a Converse-style sneaker).

In the end of the first season, the show get a big twist.

[edit] Cast and characters

Florencia Bertotti as Florencia Fazzarino-Santillán Valente
Fabio Di Tomaso as Maximo Calderón de la Hoya (2005)
Juan Gil Navarro as Federico Fritzenwalden (2004, died in a car crash)
Isabel Macedo as Delfina Santillán Torres-Oviedo
Graciela Stefani as María Laura (Malala) Torres-Oviedo de Santillán
Gerardo Chendo as Bonilla
Esteban Pérez as Matías Ripamonti
Camila Bordonaba as Paloma/Julieta
Pablo Heredia as Pedro
Alejo García Pintos as Evaristo (2005)
Esteban Prol As Lorenzo
Estefano Di Gregorio as Tomas Fritzenwalden
Mariana Espósito as Roberta
Agustin Sierra as Martin Fritzenwalden
Paz (2004)
Marina (2005)
Henny Trayles as Greta Beethoven
Diego Child as Facha
Diego Mesaglio as Bata
Benjamin Rojas as Franco Fritzenwalden
Nicolas Maiques as Nicolás Fritzenwalden
Paola Salustro as Maia Fritzenwalden
Brenda Gandini as Olivia
Felipe Colombo as Mikky
Valen
Mariana Seligman as Clara
Micaela Vasques as Nata (Renata)
Piru
Eduardo Fazzarino (2004)
Zulma Faiad as Titina
Ángeles Balbiani as Sofia Santillán Torres-Oviedo
Pablo Heredia as Pedro (2004)
Alberto Anchart as Antoine (2004)

[edit] Trivia

The musical version for the show was a big production and sold out over 90 concerts at Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires with capacity for 3,000 people. The show was so huge, eight extra concerts were added at Luna Park (capacity: 8,000 people) and three at Estadio Velez (capacity: 40,000 people). The show also sold 50,000 seats at a Tel Aviv concert in Israel and had a sold-out tour around South America in places like Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela and Chile.
It has a Brazilian version called Floribella and a Portuguese and Chilean version with the same name. The Colombian version is the same name with the original production. There's also Mexican version in pre-production.
In Argentina, while the soap was airing, you could get Floricienta merchandising in stores across Argentina and also on the Official Floricienta Merchandising stands in shopping malls like Abasto.