Why Isabel Allende agreed to produce Zorro: The Musical – The author of a Zorro: A Novel reveals the passion for the Latin hero that made her become the producer of a musical version

A masked lover, a defender of justice, romance, sword fights, family secrets, hidden identities . . . All the stuff I love in theatre, plus a certain element of magic realism that I use in my novels. Zorro is a real person capable of transforming himself by sheer courage and a sense of fun into a magic hero.

I got to know him well when I wrote Zorro: A Novel (2005) about his early years in California and, like every other normal female, fell in lust with him. I have dreams of a handsome man who leaps on to my balcony to spend the night with me. The next day there’s no guilt. I don’t even know who he is! He wore a mask. Yes, I can see that it’s utterly ridiculous at my age but that’s the power of Zorro.”*

*From: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
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