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ZORRO
The Gypsy In His Soul

Just as the core, or heart, or "corazon" of our “Z” music is Flamenco, which is in its origin Romani or Gypsy, so is our story of Zorro. In fact, Diego's personal story is full of Gypsy passions. A story to be told by a Gypsy campfire.

In the play, Diego's maternal Grandfather, Count Montero, fell in love with a Gypsy Princess. Forbidden by his father to see her, they secretly wed, and fled Spain to California. There they lived together and were happy. Endara was treated as a great lady, and the young Count prospered beyond his greatest expectations. They had a lovely daughter, Sonya, who would grow up to be Diego's mother. Then after seven years of happiness tragedy struck, when Endara and her still born son died in childbirth.

Devastated, Count Montero leased his lands to the neighboring Vega family, and locked the doors to the grand villa he had built for his "Princess". He left with his tiny daughter for Spain and his ancestral home, never to return to California. There he lived with the promise to his father that Sonya’s Gypsy heritage was never to be revealed nor acknowledged.

Years later on a visit to Spain in an attempt to buy the leased lands from the Count, a then young Alfredo Vega, met the now grown and beautiful Sonya Montero, and married her. After their return to California, she bore him a son. At the tender age of 11, Diego Vega sailed to Spain to spend the next 9 years of his life living with his aging grandfather in his castle near Madrid.

There Diego learned the secret of his grandmother’s past. In fact, her Gypsy tribe had settled on the Count’s lands, and at his insistence, Diego learned not only the art of fencing, (since the Monteros for generations had been the royal sword masters of Spain) but the use of a whip, a dagger, and sleight of hand from his Gypsy friends and relatives. He learned to think like a fox, to move like a shadow, and to live his life with passion.

It is this young man of 20, wise beyond his years, that returns to a troubled California upon the death of his grandfather. This passionate youth finds a spirited, beautiful, young girl in a church. She is kneeling before the statue of the Madonna, praying for a hero to rise up and lead her people against the evil Governor. Diego creates an older, darker character, Zorro, who thinks like a fox, and moves through the night like a shadow. He becomes that character, that masked avenger, to answer the prayers of the lovely Carlotta.

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