At 70, Raul Gazolla returns to the stage like the star of the musical “The Chorus Line”

Raul Gazolla He completed yesterday (07/08), in fact congratulations, 70 years old. Nobody says and this incredible good physical form can be demonstrated since 18/09 in the musical “The Chorus Line”, which will play on the stage of the Villa-Lobos Theater in San Paolo. The actor will live ZachThe demanding director and choreographer selecting the dancers for the first line of a show. Raul’s participation in the comedy is iconic because he was one of the chosen ones to live two characters in the Brazilian cast of 1983, including his first professional work.

At the time, Carioca was 27 years old and had only done amateur theater. He was a practitioner of Capoeira and studied dance, when, at the suggestion of a girlfriend dancer, he decided to venture from more than a thousand candidates to participate in the tests and compose the cast of that production that would have been a milestone in his life and Brazilian musical theater. “That show was like a portal for my career and many people. Two months have passed to try 12 hours a day and to date I only get angry remembering the reaction of the public of a thousand seats every night that vibrates when we start and applaud at the end of each performance”, recalls the actor.

Critically acclaimed by the public, “a line of choir” won nine Tony Awards, as well as the prestigious Pulitzer drama, and was adapted to the cinema in 1985 by Richard Attenborough, with Roy Schrigider as the protagonist. Its innovative structure, focused on the vulnerability of the interpreters, has influenced an entire generation of creators and remains a timeless and universal work. In Brazil, the title won a notorious assembly in 1983, produced by Walter Clark, launched to the Startom dozen of actors: Claudia Raia, Totia Meirelles, Regina Restelli, Guilherme Leme, Thales Pan Chacon, JC Violla, Alonso Barros, Márcia Alburque, Edua, Káta, Kália Gromia and Maria Lúcia Priolla, beyond Raol Gazolla, of course.

Now it is an opportunity for a new generation to take a look at the new assembly, which opens on 18/09, Villa -Lobos Theater of San Paolo – with a version signed by Miguel Falabella, musical direction of Jorge de Godoy and Mess Santos Cinema. The General Management and Choreography of Barbara Guerra.

Source: Terra