Muchachitas

Muchachitas
Genre	Telenovela Romance Drama
Created by	Emilio Larrosa
Written by	Emilio Larrosa Verónica Suárez Alejandro Pohlenz
Directed by	Alfredo Gurrola José Ángel García
Starring	Alejandro Camacho Cecilia Tijerina Tiaré Scanda Kate del Castillo Emma Laura Yolanda Ventura Itatí Cantoral Tere Salinas María Rojo Laura León Jorge Lavat Sergio Kleiner
Theme music composer	Lorena Tassinari
Opening theme	Muchachitas
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	200
Production
Executive producer(s)	Emilio Larrosa
Running time	41-44 minutes
Production company(s)	Televisa
Distributor	Televisa
Release
Original network	Canal de las Estrellas
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	June 24, 1991 – March 27, 1992
Chronology
Preceded by	Alcanzar una estrella II
Followed by	Baila conmigo
Related shows	Muchachitas como tú (2007)

Muchachitas (English title: Girls) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1991.^[1] The telenovela was also shown on Univisión in the early 1990s.

Starring by Cecilia Tijerina, Tiaré Scanda, Emma Laura, Kate del Castillo, Tere Salinas, Yolanda Ventura and Itatí Cantoral leading roles with Diego Schoening, Raúl Alberto, Roberto Palazuelos, José Flores, Ari Telch and Charlie Massó starred as co-protagonists. while Alejandro Camacho, Pilar Pellicer, Karen Sentíes, Kenia Gazcón, Lorena Herrera, Carlos Rotzinger, Carlos Miguel and Carlos Cardán starred as antagonists.

Plot

Four girls (Mónica, Elena, Leticia and Isabel) join an art academy pursuing their dreams of a career in acting and singing. These four girls are of different backgrounds:

• Monica is wealthy but humble and sweet. She dates Rodrigo, who works under her father at their supermarket and drives a taxi on the side. When Rodrigo is framed by Monica's cousin Federico and sent to jail for industrial espionage, she stands by him, but she cannot forget about her previous boyfriend Roger, who was also victim of an attempted murder by Federico.
• Elena is poor and tough. She was Rodrigo's first girlfriend but Rodrigo dumped her for Monica, causing a rift between the two girls. Later, however, it is revealed that Elena's father was also Monica's biological father; their respective mothers had also been active in theater and had also been friends and rivals.
• Isabel is middle-class and very selfless. She lives with her widowed father. She gets involved with Pedro, who turns out to be married, but though Pedro's terminally-ill wife forgives her and entrusts her the care of their daughter Betty, she distrusts Pedro.
• Leticia is also middle-class but a social climber who is not hesitant to speak her mind and to pretend to get on with rich men. She eventually "marries" Federico, not realizing that the wedding had no legal value (because the form had not been filled with the police station), and later is sent to work under her grandmother, who was also once a social climber but has mellowed and become wiser.

Cast

• Cecilia Tijerina as Mónica Sánchez-Zúñiga Montealegre
• Tiaré Scanda as Elena Olivares Pérez
• Kate del Castillo as Leticia Bustamante Ballesteros
• Emma Laura as Isabel Flores Falcón
• Jorge Lavat as Guillermo Sánchez-Zuniga
• Alejandro Camacho as Federico Cantú Sánchez-Zúñiga
• Laura León as Esther Pérez de Olivares
• Pilar Pellicer as Martha Sánchez-Zúñiga Vda. de Cantú
• Roberto Palazuelos as Roger Guzmán
• María Rojo as Esperanza Ballesteros de Bustamante
• July Furlong as Verónica Montealegre de Sánchez-Zúñiga #1
• Tina Romero as Verónica Montealegre de Sánchez-Zúñiga #2
• Diego Schoening as Rodrigo Suárez
• Carlos Cardán as José "Pepe" Olivares
• Sergio Kleiner as Alberto Barbosa
• Gabriela Araujo as Profesora Carmen Márquez
• Edith Kleiman as Angelica Benítez
• Antonio Medellín as Alfredo Flores
• Manolita Saval as Enriqueta
• Armando de Pascual as Francisco "Pancho" Bustamante
• Charlie Massó as Mauricio Rubio
• Mercedes Pascualas as Bertha Vda. de Ballesteros
• Mario Sauret as Don Julio Linares
• Ari Telch as Joaquín Barbosa
• Arturo Alegro as Don Héctor Suárez
• Kenia Gazcón as Margarita Villaseñor
• Lorena Herrera as Claudia Villaseñor
• Carlos Rotzinger as Luis Villaseñor
• Tere Salinas as Paola
• José Flores as Rolando Fasoles
• Raúl Alberto as Raúl Rivas
• Sergio Sendel as Pedro Ortigoza Domínguez
• Ana María Aguirre as Constanza de Villaseñor
• Anahí as Betty Ortigoza
• Itatí Cantoral as Lucía Aguilera
• Carlos Miguel as Óscar Luna
• Guillermo Orea Jr. as Tolomeo
• Héctor Soberón as Víctor
• Lorena Tassinari as Lucrecia Pons
• Ricardo Barona as Abel
• Karen Sentíes as Renata Chompester
• Yolanda Ventura as Gloria
• Vanessa Villela as Andrea
• Marigel as Noemí
• Miguel Garza as Sergio
• Luis Cárdenas as Bernardo Trueba
• Karina Castañeda as Silvia Bustamante Ballesteros
• Gloria Izaguirre as Laura
• María Prado as Rosa Rivas
• Dolores Salomón "La Bodoquito" as Concha "Conchita"
• Rocío Sobrado as Andrea de Ortigoza
• Patricia Valdés
• Fernando Pinkus
• Evelyn Murillo
• Susana Carens
• Edmundo Barahona
• Amparo Garrido

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
1992	10th TVyNovelas Awards	Best Telenovela of the Year	Emilio Larrosa	Nominated
		Best Antagonist Actor	Alejandro Camacho
		Best Leading Actress	Pilar Pellicer
		Best Leading Actor	Jorge Lavat
		Best Co-lead Actress	Laura León	Won
		Best Co-lead Actor	Ari Telch	Nominated
		Best Female Revelation	Kate del Castillo
			Tiaré Scanda	Won
		Best Direction	Alfredo Gurrola José Ángel García	Nominated
		Best Direction of the Camaras	Antonio Acevedo

References

1. "Muchachitas" (in Spanish). alma-latina.net. Archived from the original on August 5, 2011. Retrieved February 23, 2016.

External links

• Muchachitas at the Internet Movie Database