Post by scumbuster on Oct 6, 2016 7:22:31 GMT -5
Miss Venezuela Organizers Go On with the Show despite Crisis
CARACAS – Determined to put on a “good show,” organizers will present this Wednesday the 2016 Miss Venezuela contest, a beauty pageant that has produced seven Miss Universe winners, but which now faces its toughest year ever due to the Caribbean country’s fierce economic crisis.
The entertainment phenomenon par excellence for Venezuelans will present its 64th edition to a meager audience of about 100 people, far from the 15,000 that every year for decades have attended the show in Caracas and filled with euphoria the most-watched program on national television.
“We want to present a good show as if we had a lot of money, but of course we don’t...this year it’s harder than ever to deal with the crisis,” one of the executive producers, Erick Simonato, told EFE. This is his 36th year working for the private TV channel Venevision that broadcasts the pageant.
Though the budget “is still high,” the sponsors “are still small” and insufficient to maintain the “luxury and brilliance” which, according to Simonato, has forever characterized this competition.
And while he said that criticism is always good, viewers “have to realize we are in a difficult situation” and that the organizers are doing all they can “to put on the good show we need so much right now in Venezuela.”
The TV program is expected to last three hours, though it could be more, and will be divided in 13 parts of 10 minutes each, during which there will be three onstage beauty parades and five musical numbers played variously by a dozen artists.
Colombia’s Felipe Pelaez and Eddy Herrera from the Dominican Republic are the two international artists who will perform along with local singers to brighten “the most beautiful night of the year,” as the pageant’s theme song calls it.
Simonato said that while the Miss Venezuela Organization has dealt with all kinds of problems in recent years, economic troubles are much worse this year and affect all the artists in the show.
Venezuela is one of the biggest winners of global beauty contests like Miss World and Miss International, and even set a Guinness Record by having two beauties from that country win the Miss Universe title two years running.
www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2422412&CategoryId=10717
CARACAS – Determined to put on a “good show,” organizers will present this Wednesday the 2016 Miss Venezuela contest, a beauty pageant that has produced seven Miss Universe winners, but which now faces its toughest year ever due to the Caribbean country’s fierce economic crisis.
The entertainment phenomenon par excellence for Venezuelans will present its 64th edition to a meager audience of about 100 people, far from the 15,000 that every year for decades have attended the show in Caracas and filled with euphoria the most-watched program on national television.
“We want to present a good show as if we had a lot of money, but of course we don’t...this year it’s harder than ever to deal with the crisis,” one of the executive producers, Erick Simonato, told EFE. This is his 36th year working for the private TV channel Venevision that broadcasts the pageant.
Though the budget “is still high,” the sponsors “are still small” and insufficient to maintain the “luxury and brilliance” which, according to Simonato, has forever characterized this competition.
And while he said that criticism is always good, viewers “have to realize we are in a difficult situation” and that the organizers are doing all they can “to put on the good show we need so much right now in Venezuela.”
The TV program is expected to last three hours, though it could be more, and will be divided in 13 parts of 10 minutes each, during which there will be three onstage beauty parades and five musical numbers played variously by a dozen artists.
Colombia’s Felipe Pelaez and Eddy Herrera from the Dominican Republic are the two international artists who will perform along with local singers to brighten “the most beautiful night of the year,” as the pageant’s theme song calls it.
Simonato said that while the Miss Venezuela Organization has dealt with all kinds of problems in recent years, economic troubles are much worse this year and affect all the artists in the show.
Venezuela is one of the biggest winners of global beauty contests like Miss World and Miss International, and even set a Guinness Record by having two beauties from that country win the Miss Universe title two years running.
www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2422412&CategoryId=10717