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After 53 years, a new production of “The Boys in the Band – Os Garotos da Banda” debuts in São Paulo.

Five decades later, the show will be relaunched on October 31, at Teatro Procópio Ferreira, at a time when Brazil seeks to exorcise the conservative wave, the attacks on culture and the LGBTQIA+ population. Directed by Ricardo Grasson, the play stars Tiago Barbosa, Bruno Narchi, Caio Evangelista, Caio Paduan, Heber Gutierrez, Heitor Garcia, Júlio Oliveira, Leonardo Miggiorin, Mateus Ribeiro and Otávio Martins.

 

Considered the first openly gay-themed play, The Boys in the Band – Os Garotos da Banda (1968), by Matt Crowley, will be staged again in Brazil from October.

 

  The first Brazilian version, which premiered in São Paulo in 1970, at Teatro Cacilda Becker, was produced by Eva Wilma and John Herbert – a heterosexual couple. Translated by Millor Fernandes, Os Rapazes da Banda, had a cast with names such as Raul Cortez, Walmor Chagas, Paulo César Pereio, Otávio Augusto, Gésio Amadeu, Dennis Carvalho and John Herbert himself. Despite being a success, at the height of the military dictatorship, the show suffered from conservative criticism and censorship for addressing relationships between men in the midst of the sexual revolution in the pre-AIDS era.

 

Fifty-three years later, The Boys in the Band – Os Garotos da Banda finds a Brazil in the wake of a conservative wave, seeking to rebuild its social and cultural foundations. Produced by ZR Produções and directed by Ricardo Grasson, nominated for the Bibi Ferreira Award in the Best Direction in Musicals category for O Bem Amado Musicado, the cast includes Bruno Narchi, Caio Evangelista, Caio Paduan, Heber Gutierrez, Heitor Garcia, Júlio Oliveira, Leonardo Miggiorin, Mateus Ribeiro, Tiago Barbosa and Otávio Martins.

 

“The importance of putting on the show today is to assimilate and understand what we have achieved in the last fifty years. Achievements within the LGBTQIA+ movement, the black movement, the feminist movement, geopolitics in the world. It’s about analyzing where we’ve advanced and where we’ve remained stagnant. For this reason I decided to set the show in the 1960s and not update it”, explains Grasson.

 

 Relations homoafetivas in the 1960s

 

The story takes place in New York and revolves around a group of gay friends who get together to celebrate one of their own birthdays. The play addresses issues of identity, sexuality, relationships and self-acceptance. As the party progresses and the alcohol rises, repressed conflicts and resentments between the characters come to the surface during a venomous game that leads to personal revelations and tense, intense emotional moments.

 

The play was notable for its open representation of gay life at the time it was written, when acceptance of homosexuality was limited and struggles for LGBTQIA+ rights were still in their infancy. Conceived just one year before the Stonewall Uprising – a representative moment for the gay community and its fight for basic rights – it offers a frank and often cruel and painful look at the lives of these characters and how they face questions of authenticity and acceptance in a reactionary and violent society, which marginalizes everything that does not meet established standards.

 

For Tony Kushner, playwright responsible for Angels in America and nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Munich (Dir: Steven Spielberg, 2005), The Boys in the Band represents precisely the moment of rupture for the humanization of homosexuals. In an introduction to the 2018 print edition, Kushner explains that “there are moments when patterns break, behaviors change, and his characters are able to articulate a commitment to change their stance.” According to him, the piece captures what is disconcerting, strange and embarrassing in these pre-explosion moments towards liberation.

 

A theater play beyound your time

The Boys in the Band is considered an important work in the history of LGBTQIA+ theater and has had a significant impact on the representation and discussion of the gay community. The American premiere, in 1968, shocked mainstream audiences by openly showing the everyday lives of homosexuals and ran for 1,001 performances. The title of the play is a reference to the 1954 film A Star Is Born, starring Judy Garland, an icon for the gay community in the United States. In the film, James Mason says that Judy's character “is singing to herself and the boys in the band”, a slang term from that time to refer to gays.

 

For theater critic Peter Filichia, the original production of the play helped inspire the Stonewall protests in 1969 and sparked the gay rights movement. It couldn't be any different: on the day of the Stonewall Uprising, The Boys in the Band was playing in a theater close to the protest site. When fleeing police repression, the protesters took shelter in the theater that showed the world the anxieties and dilemmas of being a gay man in a context of conservative oppression.

Success on stage and screen

 

The Boys in the Band was adapted for film on two occasions, always with great success among audiences and critics, and also had several theatrical productions over the years around the world. The first version was adapted for film by Matt Crowley himself and directed by William Friedkin, winner of the 1973 Oscar for the classic The Exorcist.

 

In 2020, two years after being revived on Broadway and winning a Tony Award in the category of Best Play Revival, The Boys in the Band received a new filming directed by Joe Mantello and produced by Ryan Murphy, responsible for hits like Glee, Pose and American Horror Story. This new version is also considered historic for being the first production with a 100% gay cast.

 

  The film was one of Netflix's biggest hits that year and shows that the story continues to be a relevant and influential work in LGBTQIA+ culture.

 

  DATASHEET

 

  “The Boys in the Band”

 

  Original text | Mart Crowley

 

Direction | Ricardo Grasson

 

  Brazilian version | Caio Evangelista

 

  Production Management | Zuza Ribeiro

 

Driving assistance | Heitor Garcia

 

Cast | Tiago Barbosa, Bruno Narchi, Caio Evangelista, Caio Paduan, Heber Gutierrez, Júlio Oliveira, Leonardo Miggiorin, Mateus Ribeiro and Otávio Martins.

 

Stand-ins | Heitor Garcia, Gabriel Santana

 

Light design | Cesar Pivetti

 

L.P. Sound Design | Daniel

 

Scenography | Marco Lima

 

Costume Design Marcos Valadão

 

Visagismo | Louise Helene

 

Executive Production | Zuza Ribeiro, Claudia Odorissio, Jeana Kamil and Erica Cardoso

 

Executive production assistant | David Calado

 

  Production assistants | Luiz Ricci Guilherme Zanela

 

Press | Alisson Schafascheck, Danilo Saraiva, Giulianna Campos and Vicente Negrão Movement Director Pedro Alonso

 

Prologue: Adalberto Neto

 

  Visual Identity | Henry Nottoli

 

  Social Networks | Pedro Caldeira

 

Photos | Rafael Cusato

 

  Idealization | @theboysintheband_br

 

PROCÓPIO FERREIRA THEATER SERVICE

 

Rua Augusta, 2,823 – Cerqueira César – São Paulo (11) 3083-4475 Tickets: R$ 120 to R$ 60 | Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 9pm

 

Where to buy: – https://bileto.sympla.com.br/event/87491

 

– Procópio Ferreira Box Office: Tuesday and Wednesday from 2pm to 7pm; Thursday to Sunday from 2pm until the start of the show;

House opens: 1 hour before each show. 624 seats, including 7 seats adapted for obese people and a further 12 seats reserved for wheelchair users.

– We accept all credit cards – We do not accept payments by check – We do not take reservations – The theater has air conditioning and universal access.

Producer Zuza Ribeiro flanked by filmmaker Sabugo (on the left)

Producer Zuza Ribeiro flanked by filmmaker Sabugo (on the left)

Photo: Personal Collection

 

Edition: Costa Consulting CO Sula Costa MTB 0003600| GO

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