Antonio Gasallafamous actor, humorist, television screenwriter, playwright, director, producer and professor of Argentine theater died yesterday at age 84, after suffering a long illness.
Gasalla was away from the activity since it fought against a disease that had forced him to depart from the stage. The previous week it had been discharged after being hospitalized for almost ten days due to severe pneumonia.
How was Antonio Gasalla’s farewell
Antonio Gasalla He was veiled from 19 on Tuesday at the Maipo Theaterscenario in which it shone like few. In an open farewell to the public, many of the actors who shared works with him, his friends from the middle and those who admired him for his work approached to give him the last goodbye.
The theater businessman and producer Carlos Rottemberg He was one of the first to arrive at Maipo. There the public and the entertainment world fired him.
Marcelo Polinoone of his closest friends and who was with him until the end of his days was also one of the first to approach the theater.
Daniel Araoz, Adriana Aguirre and her husband Ricardo García, Campi, Mirta Busnelli and Nito Artaza They also approached the theater to say goodbye to the capocomic.
Georgina Barbarossa, Nazareno Mottola, Roberto Piazza, Cecilia Rossetto and Nacha Guevara They were other figures that said goodbye.
“Mirtha Legrand and family will remember you with love, dear friend”prayed the crown of flowers that the diva of Argentine television sent to the farewell of Gasalla in El Maipo. A floral arrangement sent from the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) also arrived at the scene.
The memory of Carlos Gasalla, Antonio’s brother
“It’s a relief for him,” confessed Carlos Gasallaat about 11pm, when journalists settled in the place after leaving the Maipo. The Brother of the Capocomic also spoke of the place that Antonio occupied in the world of entertainment, his irruption and the legacy he left. “It was a slightly delusional irruption, even in clothing, which implemented in Argentina a way of speaking, of commenting on the life of Argentines in a casual way,” he added.
Carlos also recalled that Antonio was always a great observer. “As a boy there was already the germ there of what was going to show with his characters”he recalled, “it was a break that seemed at the beginning a bit aggressive, but later, over time, people understood how many things were taken that were previously serious,” he said, and nodded when they named one of the most remembered characters: Flora, the public employee.
Finally, Carlos spoke of the importance of Maipo Theater in his brother’s life. “I do not want to say that Antonio modified the existing magazine a little until that moment, but he modernized it greatly,” he said.
Carlos recalled that Gasalla was “very cascarrabias and demanding”, but that with all who worked was also “Very generous and very advisor”. “He always summoned casts from which he knew how to squeeze what he wanted to get. He had a very big vision and eye to choose casts. Antonio was very complete,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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