Propuesta de traducción al español de una muestra del musical SIX The Musical

Pons Montero, Eva

Propuesta de traducción al español de una muestra del musical SIX The Musical

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Pons Montero, E. Propuesta de traducción al español de una muestra del musical SIX The Musical. 2025. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70990

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Abstract

Musical adaptation is, nowadays, a highly demanded discipline that poses a challenge for any professional of audiovisual translation. That is why I offer a sample of my work and I call for the adaptation of SIX The Musical for Spanish audiences. This paper presents a proposal for the translation of three of the songs in SIX The Musical, that arrived in Spain on April 2025: ‘Ex-Wives’, ‘All You Wanna Do’ and ‘I Don’t Need Your Love’. The play is specially interesting for its innovative plot, which revolves around rewriting the story of Henry the VIII’s six wives through feminist empowerment, and along the aesthetics of the 2000’s pop music culture. Alongside the proposals, I have analysed the main challenges that I have had to overcome to reach the final product, which are singable songs that transfer the meaning of the original ones as much as possible, following the criteria of Peter Low’s Pentathlon Principle. The main conclusion drawn is the exceptional effectiveness of following this principle and balancing the five criteria, while remaining faithful to the overall harmony of the song.