Age: 33
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Benjamin Mascolo was born on June 20, 1993 in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is an actor, known for Time Is Up (2021), Game of Love (2022) and Ben: Respira. Previously, he was known as an Italian pop singer and one half of the duo Benji & Fede with his friend Federico Rossi. The pair gained fame posting covers of popular songs to their joint YouTube channel as well as to their own personal YouTube channels.
Italy, 1920. She inherited a garden, a debt, and a man who had been promised neither. The Gardener's Daughter is a period musical romance set in 1920 Tuscany, following Sofia, 24, the daughter of a celebrated Italian gardener whose death leaves her both his extraordinary estate and his significant debts — including a promise to a neighboring family that their son Carlo would marry her. Sofia has plans of her own: she intends to turn the garden into a botanical research station and has been corresponding with a Florentine botanist named Emilio whose letters have become, without either of them naming it, the most important conversations of her life. The musical follows one extraordinary summer in the garden — Carlo's arrival, Emilio's arrival, the debt collectors, and the garden itself, which is treated as a character through the staging. Twelve original songs. Runtime: 2h 30min. Act One Songs 'My Father's Garden' (Sofia opening number). 'The Letters' (Sofia reading Emilio's letters — a split-scene duet with both actors in different locations). 'Carlo's Introduction' (the musical's most committed comic number). Act Two Songs 'What Grows Here' (Sofia and Emilio in the garden at night — the musical's romantic centerpiece). 'The Garden Decides' (the finale, in which the garden itself — through the staging — makes the choice Sofia has been unable to).
