Atrévete a soñar

Atrévete a soñar
Starring	René Strickler Vanessa Guzmán Cynthia Klitbo Danna Paola Eleazar Gómez Violeta Isfel
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	262
Production
Executive producer	Luis de Llano Macedo
Producers	Marco Flavio Cruz, Antonino Munguia Gaspe
Running time	43 minutes aprox. (without TV ads)
Original release
Network	Televisa
Release	Mexico March 8, 2009 - March 7, 2010 USA April 19, 2010 - -

Atrévete a Soñar (Dare to dream) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Luis de Llano for Televisa under license of Ideas del Sur. It is adapted from the Argentine telenovela Patito Feo (Ugly Duckling). Danna Paola stars as Patito and Eleazar Gomez as Mateo. Violeta Isfel plays the antagonist Antonella and the telenovela features adult stars René Stickler and Vanessa Guzmán, and Cynthia Klitbo, who completes the triangle as Antonella’s mom Bianca. It began Sunday, March 8, 2009 as the first telenovela to debut on a Sunday. After a year of great success, becoming a major hit in Mexico especially among children, its final episode was also on a Sunday, March 7, 2010. It won four 2010 TVyNovelas awards.

Ana takes charge of the cafeteria at the neighborhood high school called el(the) CAMP and lives in the same establishment in which el(the) CAMP is located. There Patito comes to study and soon meets a group of new friends. She also makes enemies with a group of other girls. Her entrance to the high school brings before her a yet unknown reality: that of prejudices, qualms, and discrimination. To the leaders of the high school, headed by the frivolous Antonella, daughter of Bianca, Patito is, an ugly duckling, and direct at her all their mockery and tricks. Here she meets her prince, Mateo.

Patito becomes the leader of Las Populares (The Populars), sensible young ladies who do not want to be “bimbos” like Las Divinas (The Divines) who only care about power and appearances. The fight gets serious when the high school decides to participate in an intercollegiate musical contest. The goal is to represent the school, but Las Populares and Las Divinas do not agree with each other. There is only one way: a competition that decides who will sing in public. Las Divinas think they have it in the bag, but Patito ruins their plans. Las Populares with the help of Patito who, despite her shyness to sing in public, with the help of Rodrigo succeed in winning the contest. Throughout the school year, Las Populares and Las Divinas wage a battle tinged with adventure, tricks, and adversities.

Six months after the before-mentioned, Ana has another baby (son of Rodrigo) and Patito has changed her look thanks to her grandmother. She will also be in an amorous discord on account of Giovanni, a new student of CAMP who will be competition for Mateo and all the other boys of the CAMP, as well as Antonella’s ally who will take Patito out of the Divinas' way. Meanwhile Rodrigo wants to spend as much time as possible with his children and wife and great surprises await throughout the second chapter, like a woman who will tell Bianca how to get a hold of Ana’s body and get her out of her life, and Amaya’s lost mother will return for her and furthermore, Patito’s 15th birthday (quinceanera like Sweet Sixteen) and the arrival of new loves, great friends and mortal enemies.

The finale

Patito comes to celebrate her 15th birthday, but Antonella wants to ruin her party. She goes behind the scenes to throw a candelabra(chandelier) at her, until her father catches her and tells her not to. Antonella reconsiders and decides to behave without ceasing to be a divina.

Later, Mateo wants to dedicate a song to Patito, but Giovanni plans to do the same—he’s stolen Mateo’s song. Antonella, who knew Giovanni’s plan, tells Mateo everything, and he knocks Giovanni out on stage, leaving him unconscious. Mateo finally sings the song with the K&B.

Patito and Mateo get together. Antonella asks Patito to forgive her for all the bad she’s done. Patito tells her that she has nothing to forgive, that for her, they were always friends and they return to being so. Antonella becomes Jhonny's girlfriend again.

Cast

Actor or actress	Character
René Strickler	Rodrigo
Vanessa Guzmán	Ana
Cynthia Klitbo	Bianca
Julissa	Christina
Alejandro Ibarra	Marcelo
Raquel Garza	Nina
Ricardo Fastlicht	Paulo
Siouzana Melikian	Vanessa
Sergio Saldívar	Román
Gabriela Platas	Marina
Mauricio Martínez	Gustavo
Patricio Borghetti	René
Luis Xavier	Guillermo
Marco Flavio	Delfino
Claudia Vega	Clarissa

Las populares

Actress	Character
Danna Paola	Patricia "Patito" Castro
Ilean Almaguer	Catalina
Samadhi	Amaya
Adriana Ahumada	Marisol
Verónica Ibarra	Constanza

Los klásikos

Actor	Character
Eleazar Gómez	Mateo
Roberto Carlo	Renzo
Ricardo Ceceña	Richie
Jesús Zavala	Roger
Miguel Martínez	Frank
Alejandro Speitzer	Ray

Las divinas

Actress	Character
Violeta Isfel	Antonella
Natalia Juárez	Fabiola
Nashla Aguilar	Paola
Roxana Puente	Lucy
Kendra Santacruz	Kimberly
Daniela Ibáñez	Nuria
Michelle Prats	Sophí

Special musical guest stars

Enrique Iglesias
Alicia Machado
Luis Fonsi
Fanny Lu
Paulina Rubio
Jonas Brothers
Playa Limbo
Cherry Ahava Fey
Susana Zabaleta
The Veronicas

External links

• Official Site