anyway i'm so glad "secondo coro delle lavandaie" (second chorus of the washerwomen) from the musical la gatta cenerentola (the cat cinderella); written by roberto de simone; is getting more global recognition thanks to the hbo show the new pope. that song is a major bop and it takes me back to senior year when i sang that song all the time.
in the musical, it's one of the songs in act 3, and one of the washerwomen (played by isa danieli) sings about having a dream involving the king of the palace that turned out to be a wet dream, and during "the best part of the dream", her mom wakes her up so she just starts insulting her mom. she's backed up by cinderella (played by fausta vetere; member of the folk band nuova compagnia di canto popolare since 1970) and the rest of the washerwomen (one of them is antonella morea, who currently plays the mom in the "casa surace" series on youtube)
i shared video footage of this original cast singing it because it probably wasn't on tumblr and the live version is even more mindblowing.
there were also several revivals of that musical and here's a clip of the 1999 cast singing the same song. though most of the members returned for the 1986 revival - including fausta, giovanni mauriello (member of the nccp group from the late 60s - before they recorded an album - to the 90s), and isa, the only members to return for the 1999 version were antonella and giovanni.
