Review: Canciones for Generations by Letitia Rodriguez

by Michael Meigs
Published on September 12, 2008

A sly, funny, heart-warming gambit gives her the opportunity to outline her roots, from five generations back, to mock stereotypes (frijoles or brisket? Selma Hayek is: a), b) or c)?) and to sit listening with us as her mother and aunt recall growing up Tejana.

Leticia Rodriguez’s charming one-woman show at the Mexican American Cultural Center is really a one-woman-and-three-musicians-and-a-crowd show. She is onstage throughout, but the magic of multimedia brings us video reminiscences from her family, photos, recorded music, visual jokes and a hectoring quizmaster running a zany bilingual quiz show.  The Big Question for the quiz show is “Eres tejana o coco?”  Are you a Texan with Mexican roots, or are you a coconut – brown on the outside, …

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