Alcanzar una estrella

Alcanzar una estrella
Format	telenovela, romance, drama
Directed by	Marco Flavio Cruz
Starring	Mariana Garza Eduardo Capetillo
Theme music composer	Mariana Garza
Opening theme	Alcanzar una estrella Quiero Estar Contigo
Country of origin	Mexico
Language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	100
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Canal de las Estrellas
Picture format	Color
Original run	May 14, 1990 – December 28, 1990
Chronology
Preceded by	Cuando llega el amor
Followed by	Cadenas de amargura
External links
Website

For the song, see Alcanzar una estrella (song).

Alcanzar una estrella ("To reach a star") is a Mexican telenovela first broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in 1990.

The telenovela, which was also broadcast in Latin America and on Univision in the United States, tells the story of an introverted girl's infatuation with her teen idol. The leading roles were played by singers Mariana Garza and Eduardo Capetillo, ex-members of the Mexican pop band Timbiriche. The two also sang the theme songs for the telenovela, which were written by Ricardo Arjona. Arjona and other singers such as Patricia Manterola (from the group Garibaldi) also made acting cameos.

The success of the telenovela was such that it was made into a film Más que alcanzar una estrella and a sequel telenovela Alcanzar una estrella II, starring Sasha Sokol and Ricky Martin.

The story was produced by Luis de Llano, producer and manager of Timbiriche and Garibaldi, and written by actress Rita Macedo, de Llano's mother. Alcanzar una estrella turned out to be Macedo's last credit as an actress before she committed suicide in the mid-1990s.

Plot

Lorena (Mariana Garza) is an introverted girl who dreams of "reaching a star"--that star being singer Eduardo Casablanca (Eduardo Capetillo). She gets to meet him at a press conference to present his last album and his first telenovela. Lorena begins to write anonymous letters to Eduardo while her classmates ridicule her bad looks. Eduardo struggles to maintain a relationship with his goldigger girlfriend Déborah (Kenia Gazcón).

Cast

• Mariana Garza as Lorena Gaitán/Melissa
• Eduardo Capetillo as Eduardo Casablanca/Ramon Santos
• Ana Silvia Garza as Norma Gaitán
• Enrique Lizalde as Mariano Casablanca
• Angélica Ruvalcaba as Aurora Rueda
• Marcos Valdés as Amadeus
• Héctor Suárez Gomiz as Pedro Lugo
• Carlos Gracia as Edgar Navarro
• Daniel Martín as Joaquín
• Marcela Páez as Irene
• Oscar Traven as Roque Escamilla
• Andrea Legarreta as Adriana Navarrete
• Kenia Gazcon as Déborah Lavalle/Guadalupe Quirino
• Gabriela Goldsmith as Cristina Carillo
• Dacia González as Lucha
• Luis Bayardo as Gustavo
• Mayra Rojas as Liliana
• Lorena Rojas as Sara
• Alejandro Ibarra as Felipe Rueda
• Cita as Cecilia Lugo
• Sergio Kleiner as Fernando Navarrete
• Margarita Isabel as Rita Navarrete
• Aarón Beas as a photographer
• Ricardo Dalmacci
• Gabriela Hassel as Tanya
• Perla De La Rosa
• Rita Macedo as Virginia
• Jacqueline Voltaire

Soundtrack

• Alcanzar una estrella (Album)

Awards

• The Best Telenovela of the Year, TVyNovelas Award in 1991

External links

• Alcanzar una estrella
• Alcanzar una estrella at the telenovela database
• Alcanzar una estrella at the Internet Movie Database