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Ten years after the opening of the hit Rita Lee Mora ao Lado, actress Mel Lisboa returns to play the rock star in an all new musical. With book and research by Guilherme Samora, direction by Marcio Macena and Debora Dubois, the show is based on the autobiography of the queen of Brazilian rock ‘n’ roll.

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920's draw to a close, a garish MC welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee's bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin's natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich.

Using hits composed by the famous Brazilian band Legião Urbana, the story is set in a small town in the countryside, where young Daniel and his class experience the last months of high school. Meanwhile, they begin to discover love in all shapes and sizes, and that growing up is a difficult task.

Conceived and starring the award-winning actor and singer Beto Sargentelli as Elvis Presley, the show is a tribute to one of the greatest world music icons. Unreleased and originally Brazilian, O Rei do Rock - O Musical delves into Elvis' fascinating trajectory, from his first album recording, at the age of 18, until his premature death at 42.

The lyrical season will feature 12 titles, such as Turandot, by Busoni, Gianni Schicchi, by Puccini, Le Comte Ory, by Rossini, among others. The program also includes ballets, cinema and music, and concerts in a year in which São Pedro establishes partnerships with the Cinemateca, the São Paulo Companhia de Dança and guest orchestras.

A ghost comes to the stage in this edgy and irreverent musical comedy based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film. Beetlejuice tells the story of Lydia, a strange and unusual teenager obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Her new house is haunted by a recently deceased couple and Beetlejuice, a delightful demon with a real zest for life.

This production of Madama Butterfly highlights the social decline and impoverishment that occur in Cio-cio-san's life, to give visibility to the sociocultural aspects that cause the protagonist's growing suffering and the tragic outcome of the story, as well as the machismo she suffers of both cultures – Japanese and American.

Suely Franco, Flavia Monteiro and Bela Quadros star in the production that celebrates the centenary of the iconic revue theater artist Viginia Lane with direction by Claudia Netto and musical direction by Alfredo Del-Penho.

The opera season at Theatro Sao Pedro, will begin with the premiere of Riders to the Sea, by Vaughan Williams, considered the greatest British symphonist. With musical direction by Claudio Cruz and scenic direction by Caetano Vilela, the opera will be preceded by the instrumental work Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, by the same composer.

Pregones Theater and R.Evolución Latina announce performances of BARBA A Brazilian Body Percussion Musical.BARBA a new Brazilian musical that explores the true story of Fernando Barba who discovers a gift for creating music using his own body as an instrument. . A music virtuoso, Barba transformed people’s lives, founding the Barbatuques.

From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein!

The show Tarsila, a Brasileira will address Tarsila's life, work and influence on Brazilian culture. With book and lyrics by Anna Toledo and Jose Possi Neto, who also directs, the production has Claudia Raia as the protagonist and producer alongside Jarbas Homem de Mello, who plays Oswald de Andrade.

With dramaturgy and direction by Ze Henrique de Paula and music by Fernanda Maia, the show tells the story of the journalist who fought for the LGBTQIAPN+ cause during the Brazilian military dictatorship.

In its 6th edition the award, which brings together representatives of the digital press and celebrates musical theater in São Paulo City, paid tribute to Claudia Raia for her 40 years of career. Something Rotten! was the most awarded of the night with five.

The show is a musical version of the romance Viva o Povo Brasileiro (Hail the Brazilian People, self-translated as An Invincible Memory), a masterpiece of Bahian author Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, covering 400 years of Brazilian history, directed by Andre Paes Leme, songs by Chico Cesar and musical direction and original score are by Joao Milet Meirelles.

The show by Allan Oliver, pays homage to young Brazilian talents and has musical direction by Andre Cortada. The play that brings a new version of the story of Oliver, an orphan who struggles against hunger and slave labor in Victorian England, will move the audience with his courageous journey.

Bringing together representatives of the digital press in the jury, the award that is currently the only one in the country to exclusively celebrate musical theater in the São Paulo City, reveals its nominees, date and new location for the ceremony.

After 53 years, a new production of the important LGBTQIA+ play The Boys in the Band opens in Sao Paulo, at Teatro Procopio Ferreira. Directed by Ricardo Grasson, the play stars Bruno Narchi, Caio Evangelista, Caio Paduan, Heber Gutierrez, Heitor Garcia, Julio Oliveira, Leonardo Miggiorin, Mateus Ribeiro, Tiago Barbosa and Otavio Martins.

The Money Shot is a perverse and insightful comedy that explores acid humor to create a reflection on ambition, art, status, sex in the North American entertainment industry when narrating the drama of Karen and Steve, movie stars who can no longer achieve great success on the big screen.

The show takes place during a Carnival party, common to all Brazilians. Every year, throughout Carnival and Ash Wednesday, people who have already departed from this plane - but did not die, “became homesick”, as the production explains - can once again walk among the living, in the middle of the crowd and once in costumes, they will not be seen.