First stop for me on this tour was Sao Paulo. For those of you who don't know Sao Paulo is huge. It is the biggest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere, and the seventh largest city in the world by population.
I arrived to the tour "late". Well, later than everyone else. Allow me to explain. Basically, I was hired with them knowing that the visa process for Brazil was difficult so I went to Orlando rehearsals for two weeks and then went home for a month while everyone else went on to Brazil and rehearsed and opened the show.
I got my visa and headed to Brazil about a month after everyone else. I missed out on the first city and some fun stuff that everyone else did, but better late than never, right?
First day of arrival, Lloyd took me to the venue which was inside of a huge mall with a grocery store and look what I found!
This is the beautiful venue. Teatro Bradesco. It was a beautiful theatre. My apologies for not getting a photo of the inside, but I was insanely busy for the week that I was in Sao Paulo between rehearsals and shows.
The interesting thing about Sao Paulo was the juxtaposition between the beautiful buildings and the "normal" American standard of living and the less than stellar standards. This photo is literally immediately across the street from the Sao Paulo theatre.
This was the street my hotel was on. As soon as you stepped outside of the hotel walls this is what you saw. Barbed wire, high walls, electrically charged and you have to be buzzed in. It's no joke. I never saw anyone that looked like they were seriously violent, but apparently it is a big concern.
These are all over the ground as well instead of grass. Those look serious don't they? I don't think anyone will be walking on your yard with those things.
I stole this photo from someone else in the cast who went on the graffiti tour of Sao Paulo. Graffiti is everywhere and gosh some of it is so detailed and almost all of it is beautiful.
The selection at the Sao Paulo Starbucks was delicious. Empanadas? Yes, please!
It's hard to tell, but the Starbucks cups here are so cute and tiny. Plus, in Sao Paulo they had this doce de leite. A dulce de leche drink that is so good I could drink them everyday!
This poster was one in a line of posters of shows that had been at the Teatro Bradesco. I don't know why, but this is just funny to me. ALO, Dolly!
This is the final photo I took on the bus from the hotel in Sao Paulo to the airport to fly to Rio. The little shanty town. It wasn't a full blown favela, but sights like these make you realize how fortunate you really are.
