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O Theatro São Pedro apresenta um título do compositor austríaco Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): O Rapto do Serralho, que será apresentada em abril, em oito récitas.

The Bodyguard is a musical based on the popular 1992 movie, with the score featuring songs recorded by Whitney Houston including 'I Will Always Love You'. The show tells the story of rock superstar Rachel Marron who hires the titular bodyguard, Frank Farmer, to protect her from a stalker. As Frank works to keep Rachel safe, the two fall in love.

Based on Book IV of the Aeneid, the opera was composed in 1688 and is considered one of the great works of English Baroque. Unprecedented montage has scenic direction by William Pereira and musical direction by Luis Otavio Santos, who commands the Orchestra do Theatro Sao Pedro. The performances take place on the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of March.

Deeply moving and wickedly hilarious depicting gay life in the 21st century, The Inheritance, brilliantly re-envisioning E.M. Forster’s 1910 masterpiece Howards End, opens with a 5-hour two-part play. A great success on Broadway awarded with 4 Tony Awards, including Best Play, the production will have its first version on Brazilian stages.

Based on a short story by Machado de Assis, “A Igreja do Diabo – Um Musical Imoral e Hilário”, premieres on February 27 at Núcleo Experimental, in São Paulo. In the plot, the Devil decides to found his own religion, in which people would be free to practice impiety. However, the human tendency to contradiction leads its followers to do good.

The monologue opens at Teatro Paiol in the “1st Festival of Monologues”. The play narrates a cut in Carmen Miranda’s life, when, already consecrated as one of the main Brazilian personalities in the United States, she returned for a show in Brazil, booed for supposedly having “sold herself to the American government”.

The show, with music by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, lyrics by Amanda Green and Miranda, loosely based on the 2000 film of the same name, focuses on the competitive world of cheerleading and over-the-top team rivalries.

Lyrical season will have 11 titles, including the premiere of O Machete, by Mehmari. Throughout 2023, will be presented of Il Seraglio, by Mozart, Cinderella, by Viardot, The Cunning Little Vixen, by Janácek, Dido and Eneas, by Purcell, among others. The program also includes ballet shows, symphonic and chamber music concerts.

Based on the 1884 novel A Moreninha, by Manoel de Macedo, and bringing back the romantic atmosphere of the 1950s, to the sound of the oldies goldies immortalized by Celly Campello, Túnel do Amor (Tunnel of Love) opens at Teatro Liberdade, with 20 actors on stage.

Dercy Goncalves passed away without a play honoring her ever having been performed on Brazilian stages. Yet! The monologue Nasci pra ser Dercy, with Grace Gianoukas, seeks to unite the popular appeal and the actress's charisma with a deep research that shows the importance of the actress for the Brazilian theater and for the female freedom.

Starring Laila Garin in the title role, and directed by Kleber Montanheiro, CARMEN A PEQUENA GRANDE NOTAVEL presents the story of Carmen Miranda, the Brazilian Bombshell, for all-family, with language of Revue Theater.

Multi-award winning director with plays like Barnum and 4000 Miles, Gustavo Barchilon (30) exclusively announces for BroadwayWorld his new works for 2023.

Revista Babadeira is a musical by award-winning director Neyde Veneziano, where she updates the Revue Theater genre through diversity and inclusion, with dragqueens. With musical direction by Dagoberto Feliz, it has an original score by Danilo Dunas, scenery and costumes by Kleber Montanheiro and choreography by Paula Flaibann,

Sapiens – A Brief History of Humanity, by professor and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, was the starting point for the play Ficções. After a successful season in Rio de Janeiro, the monologue, which marks the return of Vera Holtz to the stage after three years,opens on January 19th at Teatro FAAP, in São Paulo, for a season until March 26th.

El musical de Stephen Schwartz regresa a São Paulo el próximo mes de marzo.

Alem do Ar is a musical freely inspired by the life of Santos-Dumont, not only the daring and determined inventor, but also the man who had doubts about his inventions. The show is produced by the Lia Maria Aguiar Foundation, starring the talents of Cassio Scapin, Mateus Ribeiro, Felipe Prestes, Henrique Oliveira) and a great cast.

A dip in the history of Brazil takes us to the Bahian popular uprising known as Conjuracao Baiana, Revolta dos Alfaiates or Revolta dos Buzios. The movement is the inspiration for the show Uma Leitura dos Buzios (A Reading of Buzios). The premiere took place in November 2022 at Teatro Antunes Filho do Sesc Vila Mariana and continues until February 12th, 2023.

Ney Matogrosso - Homem com H explora momentos e canções marcantes na trajetória do cantor sem seguir necessariamente uma ordem cronológica. The performance is on 13 January.

Ney Matogrosso – Homem com H explora momentos e canções marcantes na trajetória do cantor sem seguir necessariamente uma ordem cronológica. A história começa em um show do Secos & Molhados, em plena ditadura militar, quando uma pessoa da plateia o xinga de “viado”. Essa cena se funde com momentos da infância e adolescência do artista. E, dessa forma, outros episódios vão se encadeando na cena.

The award, which brings together representatives of the digital press and celebrates musical theater in Sao Paulo City, held its 5th edition, the first being presential. The Brazilian musicals Brenda Lee and the Palace of the Princesses and Nautopia - The Musical were the most awarded of the night.

Musical A Christmas Carol, inspired by Charles Dickens' classic, has a Brazilian version and libretto by Daniela Cury, direction by Fernanda Chamma. Starring in this new Brazilian show are 80 artists on stage, young talents and renowned names in musical theatre. Among the highlights of the cast are Miguel Falabella and Arizio Magalhães.

Musical A Christmas Carol, inspired by Charles Dickens' classic, has a Brazilian version and libretto by Daniela Cury, direction by Fernanda Chamma. Starring in this new Brazilian show are 80 artists on stage, young talents and renowned names in musical theatre. Among the highlights of the cast are Miguel Falabella and Arizio Magalhães.

PRETAGONISMO DAY - I ATO is a true BROADWAY talk show! An act of representation, diversity, inclusion and empowerment that aims to emphasize and value the strength and importance of black protagonism in culture and in all its aspects today. A night of celebration in the Month of Black Awareness.

A theater with echoes and voices from the past that will interpret the past of three characters who were once friends and lovers. Miguel, a washed-up middle-aged transvestite artist; Sara, a middle-aged actress struggling to remain relevant in her career; and Paulo, who abandoned a promising artistic career.

With musical direction by the German conductor Felix Krieger, who commands the Orquestra do Theatro Sao Pedro, and scenic direction by the Argentine Pablo Maritano, the never seen production in Brazil takes the stage at Theatro Sao Pedro on November 18th.