Has The Brazilian Audience For Broadway Musicals Disappeared For Good?

“The cast of ‘The Full Monty,’ which opened in Rio last week, rehearsed in a donated room of a barren mall. The producer and director, Tadeu Aguiar, reused sets and costumes from his other shows — although the police uniform stripper costumes were created from scratch. Instead of a salary, the cast was offered a cut of the box office. With no union to protect the actors, and unemployment surpassing 8 percent, ‘there are a lot of people who will do it for nothing,’ said one actor, André Dias.”