Synopsis
Alcantil das Alterosas Company, decadent and close to ruin, insists on maintaining a musicals repertoire in a naive Belo Horizonte, lost between the end of the 20's and the first years of the 30's. It's reference is the standard musicals shown in Rio de Janeiro, and its audience, the conservative population of the still young Minas' capital.
Depressed and with no perspectives after another frustrated opening night, the company members get an auspicious note from their manager. Their salvation would be in Cinema, which had been attracting multitudes to the movie theaters. Everyone embarks on this new adventure full of hopes and dreams until they find out, in the movie's premiere, they were all replaced with famous Rio de Janeiro actors. Taken by fair fury, they take advantage of a technical problem that interrupts the movie's showing and step on stage to play out, live, the script they knew so well. Success comes back and hope ignites in the actor's hearts, who end by proclaiming theater's immortality and the pleasure of being on stage.
Grupo Galpão themselves, under guidance of the director Chico Pelúcio, elaborated the argument for “Um Trem Chamado Desejo” and drew the characters and their relationships, calling in to give the text it's final form, the playwright from São Paulo, Luís Alberto de Abreu. Rio de Janeiro's composer Tim Rescala was invited to compose the beautiful songs that permeate the play and guide to action, which were arranged by musical director Fernando Muzzi. The film exhibited in the action's context had it's script by Marcelo Braga de Freitas, from an argument by Grupo Galpão, and it was directed by André Amparo. Both the play and film's creative teams were completed by the presence of Márcio Medina, also from São Paulo, who signs Scenario and Costumes Design.
“Um Trem Chamado Desejo” opened by the end of the year 2000, in Galpão Cine Horto, and carried out an enormously successful career, be it in the in-country Minas circuit, were it was presented in overcrowded gymnasiums, be it in festivals such as Curitiba, Londrina, Porto Alegre and Brasília, were it received consecrating acclamation.
- Year
- 2000 — 2002
- Directed by
- Chico Pelúcio
Technical Sheet
Argument
Grupo Galpão
Dramaturgy
Luís Alberto de Abreu
Assistant Director
Marcelo Bones
Costumes and Scenario
Márcio Medina
Music
Tim Rescala
Musical Director and Instrumental Arrangements
Fernando Muzzi
Choir singing and musical advisory
Ernani Maletta
Lighting
Alexandre Galvão & Wladimir Medeiros
Vocal Coach
Babaya
Make-up
Mona Magalhães
Choreography
Jomar Mesquita
Body work
Body work
Costumes Assistants
Maria Nilza, Dica Freitas & Daniela Starling
Scenario Execution
Helvécio Izabel & Ivanir Avelar
Accessories, Assistant of Costumes and Scenario
Ever
Costumes execution
Maria Castilho
Screens Paintings
Fernando Monteiro de Barros
Director of Production
Gilma Oliveira
Executive Production
Regina Gotelipe & Beatriz Radicchi
Intern Actor
Elton Luz
Photos
Guto Muniz
Graphic Project
Don Design
Overall Production
Grupo Galpão