Carmen Miranda — O Musical
An iconic figure and a narrative larger than her image

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Context
Carmen Miranda occupies a rare place in the Portuguese and Brazilian imagination: instantly recognisable image, complex biography, contested cultural reading.
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Challenge
The risk of a recognisable title is superficiality: audiences assume they already know what they will see. Curiosity had to be created about the story, not only about the figure.
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Strategy
We took the distance between icon and person as the narrative engine of the campaign. Communication was built to promise a story, not an impersonation.
The tone balanced spectacle and density: colour, music and movement on the surface; identity, exile and reinvention underneath.
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Campaign ecosystem
Visual identity, video teasers, rehearsal content, phased paid campaigns, editorial communication and activation with organised audiences.
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Audiences and channels
Musical theatre audiences, Brazilian and Luso-Brazilian audiences, music and cultural-memory audiences, cultural tourism and groups.
Channels: Meta, Google, email, cultural press and partnerships.
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Reading the results
Monitoring was phased, separating initial interest in the title from actual ticket conversion and adjusting the message according to each segment's response.
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What this project demonstrates
That recognition of a figure is not in itself a sales argument: it is raw material for a narrative.
“A cultural campaign does not begin when the poster is published. It begins when we decide why someone should want to be there.”