The interiors of Fru Fru Theater rescue the eccentric personality of its last and most controversial owner: the tigress.Pedro Rodríguez
Night life icon in Mexico
For the 50s, Mexico was one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. His role as one of the main producers of film material catapulted his actresses and actors to international stardom, giving the show in the country a validity of great importance. Especially because, for a long time, Several cabarets had become the epicenter of nightlife in the city presenting their vedettes and encouraging dance tracks with the Big BandsSounds and Danzoneras, who interpreted the rhythms of the Foxtrotthe mambo and the danzón.
Virginia Fábregas died in November 1950 and just a few months earlier, the demolition of the old theater was announced to lift a new one that was inaugurated in 1954, along with an department building. With that modification, the theater entered a new era in which its scenarios witnessed the most recognized night dancers doing your shows wearing small dresses and large feathers. Also, the decoration inside maintained a good part of its original sense by preserving the red velvet curtains, the sculptures and the blacksmithing of its doors, as well as the glass candlesticks that the galleries and boxes dress.
With that renovation, the theater entered a new era of glory with presentations that had as public the characters of politics and the same show as Joaquín Pardavé or Dolores del Río. The 50s and 60s represented, perhaps, the best for the theater that would enter the 70s ready for a new moment of greatness.
Salvador Novo was one of the characters who accompanied actress Irma Serrano during the premiere of Naná and the inauguration of the Fru Fru Theater in 1973.COURTESY FRU THEATER
The theater of «La Tigresa»
Irma Serrano was a singer, actress, politics and controversial businesswoman always. During the sixties, Serrano would interpret several successes of the Ranchero genre, so he would be known as «the tigress of ranchera music» or simply as «La Tigresa». During that same time, he catapulted himself as one of the most recognized actresses in national cinema and as one of the most controversial characters for an alleged romance with the then president of the Republic, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.