Um Trem Chamado Desejo (A Train Named Desire)

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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

Fernanda Vianna

Body work

Lydia Del Picchia

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

Direction

Chico Pelúcio