Lola: Once Upon a Time

*Lola: Once Upon a Time*
Lola: Once Upon a Time
	Lola, érase una vez
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Cris Morena
Written by	Iván Cuevas, María Eugenia Cervantes, Pedro Armando Rodríguez, Alejandra Romero
Story by	Gabriel Fiore; Solange Keoleyan;
Directed by	Juan Carlos Muñoz; Luis Pardo;
Creative director	Alexis Covasevich
Starring	Aarón Díaz; Eiza González;
Theme music composer	Carlos Lara, Pedro Damián
Opening theme	"Si me besas" performed by Eiza González; "Masoquismo" performed by Eiza González;
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	224
Production
Executive producer	Pedro Damián
Producer	Luis Luisillo
Cinematography	Daniel Ferrer; Vivian Sánchez Ross;
Editors	Noé Galindo, Julio Abreu, Juan Franco, Luis Horacio Valdés
Production companies	Televisa; Cris Morena Group;
Original release
Network	Canal de las Estrellas; Canal 5
Release	February 26, 2007 –; January 11, 2008
Related
	Código postal; Amor sin maquillaje;

Lola, érase una vez (English: Lola, Once Upon a Time), is a youth-targeted Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa that is remake of the Argentine global popularity and teen telenovela Floricienta.^[1] The show tells the story of a modern Cinderella, Lola, who works as a nanny and sings in a rock band and meets her so-called Prince Charming (Aaron Diaz). It debuted in Mexico on February 26, 2007, starring Aarón Díaz and Eiza González, and was produced by Pedro Damián.

Plot

The modern fairy tale takes place in Mexico City and revolves around Lola, a poor but ambitious Mexican girl. Lola's life changes when she meets Alexander Von Ferdinand, the oldest son of a very rich German Mexican family whose parents died in an accident. Alexander is the head of the family and has five younger siblings (Marcos, Archibaldo, Marion, Boris & Otto) living with him in a huge mansion (Palace).

While Alexander is in a trip to Germany, he leaves his younger siblings at home with their nanny. The siblings throw a party, inviting Lola and her band to play. A bubble machine soon breaks and fills the house with bubbles. Suddenly, Alexander unexpectedly returns to his home in Mexico. The invited teenagers flee the party, including the band, but Lola goes back into the house to rescue the youngest sibling, Otto, who is only six years old. Lola is covered with foam, hiding her face. Otto is returned to his older siblings and Alexander asks Lola to stop, but she runs from the mansion leaving one of her "lucky" pink converse (glass slippers) behind.

Sometime later, Otto once again gets Lola in trouble by hiding in the back of her motorcycle. As an apology, Alexander offers Lola a job as an assistant nanny in the Von Ferdinand mansion. Alexander has a cold personality until he falls in love with Lola. Upon meeting her, he becomes her "Prince Charming". Alexander has a girlfriend, Carlota, whom he does not truly love and feels obligated to marry because of social status. Carlota at the same time does not truly love him, wants Alexander's money, cheats and deceives him. Along with Carlota comes her wicked & recent widowed mother, Monserrat, and her more pleasant sister, Rafaela. Alexander's siblings hate Carlota and her mother and are constantly doing mischief to get them out of the mansion and prevent Carlota from marrying their older brother.

Lola and Alexander are in middle love with each other, but Carlota and Monserrat try to get in the way of their relationship. Together these two also attempt to keep Lola from finding out she is really the stepdaughter of Monserrat and halfsister of Carlota and Rafaela, which means she has a claim to part of the Santo Domingo fortune. Lola, with help of the children, her rock band, magic, fairies and love attempt to "save" Alexander from Carlota and Monserrat and vice versa.

Cast

Main

Aarón Díaz as Alexander Von Ferdinand
Eiza González as Dolores "Lola" Pescador Valente/Dolores "Lola" Santodomingo Valente
Grettell Valdez as Carlota Santodomingo Torres-Oviedo/Carlota santodomingo de von ferdinand
Lorena Herrera as Monserrat Torres-Oviedo de Santodomingo

Recurring

Tiaré Scanda as Milagros Ramos
Beatriz Moreno as Petra Sigrid Van Beethoven
Zoraida Gómez as Rafaela Santodomingo Torres-Oviedo
Natasha Dupeyrón as Marion Von Ferdinand
Derrick James as Marcus Von Ferdinand
Eddy Vilard as Archibaldo Von Ferdinand
Juan Luis as Bóris Von Ferdinand
Octavio Ocaña as Otto Von Ferdinand
Viviana Ramos as Blanca
Luis Gerardo Méndez as Bataca
Juan Acosta as Facha
Violeta Isfel as Gaby
Carlos Guerra as Diego
Victoria Díaz as Mercedes
Ingrid Schwebel as Valentina
Alejandro Peraza as Raúl Ramos
Rubén Cerda as Antonino
Alejandra Jurado as Cándida
Felipe Nájera as Severo
Alberto Agnesi as Patrick
Alejandro Nones as Waldo López
Roberto Assad as Chacho Ramos
Alan Estrada as Nicolás
Anneliese Asúnsolo as Matilde
Blanca Sánchez as Nilda Santodomingo
Juan Ríos as Eduardo

Awards and nominations

Year	Premio	Category	Nominate	Result
2008	26th TVyNovelas Awards	Best Female Revelation of the Year	Eiza González	Won
	26th TVyNovelas Awards	Best Child Actor or Actress	Octavio Ocaña	Won
	Premios Bravo 2008	Female Revolution	Eiza González	Won

Soundtrack

Lola, Erase Una Vez was the only Floricienta remake not to use the original songs penned by Cris Morena and Carlos Nilson. Instead, a double CD was released with songs written and composed by Mexican pop songwriters in one album and nine new Cris Morena-penned songs in another, along with a rock version of "Flores Amarilla" that was included in the original soundtrack.

The show's theme song is "Masoquismo" ("Masochism"). Other songs include "Si Me Besas" ("If You Kiss Me"), "Espiral" ("Spiral"), "Princesa" ("Princess"), and "Sapo Azul" ("Prince Charming"). In March 2009, González won New Artist/Revelation of the Year at the Premio Lo Nuestro Awards. González was nominated for Best New Artist at the Premios Oye!.^{[citation needed]} Gonzalez also performed in 2008 in los premios juventud.

References

^ de la A. Valadez Figueroa, Isabel (2008). Violencia escolar: Maltrato entre iguales en escuelas secundarias de la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara. Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, Dirección de Psicopedagogía. p. 81. ISBN 978-968-9216-09-4.

External links

Lola, érase una vez at IMDb

[1] A. Valadez Figueroa, Isabel (2008). Violencia escolar: Maltrato entre iguales en escuelas secundarias de la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara. Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, Dirección de Psicopedagogía. p. 81. ISBN 978-968-9216-09-4.

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