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The show that follows dinner in Copacabana, explained from the venue's own pages and the city tourism board: who stages it, what is sung and danced, and how the old cinema fits in.
Editorial team, roxydinnershow.click · Updated November 12, 2026 · Takes 8 min
The essentials
- The ideaA music and dance journey through Brazil's regions, staged in a restored Copacabana cinema.1,2
- The castMore than 60 artists, with Abel Gomes named as director.1,3
- The scaleRiotur counts 21 scenes and 55 songs, from north to south.4,5
- The themesFesta junina, the Parintins oxen, maracatu, chula and music icons.6
- The formatThe show is part of every package, with or without dinner.7
What kind of evening is this, exactly?
The Roxy dinner show is a theatre evening that happens to include a meal. You sit at a table in a restored Copacabana cinema, eat, and then watch a large musical production that tries to tell the story of Brazil through its songs and dances. In the venue's own description, cooking, live music, technology and the national culture share a single night,8 which is a fair preview of what you will find at the table.
It helps to separate the halves in your head, because the evening has a social half and a shared half. Dinner is the social part, with menus, drinks and conversation at your table. The show is the shared part, when the room turns toward the stage and everyone watches the same thing. Riotur, the city's tourism body, drew a parallel with the tango houses of Buenos Aires and a famous Paris cabaret,9 which tells you the idea: a polished night out built around a stage, aimed as much at visitors as at locals.
This page covers the show itself, meaning what is on stage and who makes it. Prices, start times, seating and the route to the door each have their own guide on this site, and the building's own story has its own page too. If you are still deciding between formats, read this first, because it answers the plain question many visitors have: is this a folklore display, a concert or a revue? The sources point to something broader than any of those labels.
On stage
What the sources name in the production
| On stage | What it points to | Named by |
|---|---|---|
| Festa junina | The country festivals of the north-east | Riotur6 |
| Parintins oxen | The Amazon river festival | Riotur6 |
| Maracatu | A percussion tradition from the north-east | Riotur6 |
| Chula | A dance of the gaucho south | Riotur6 |
| Carmen Miranda and João Gilberto | Icons of Brazilian song | Riotur6 |
| The Amazon | A scene about caring for the country | The venue12 |
| The old facade | The first image of the night | Riotur10 |
| The Maracanã | A picture on the screen | Riotur11 |
What the city tourism board and the venue say appears in the production; the order of scenes is not published, so it is not shown here.
A show built as a tour of Brazil
The title of the production, Aquele Abraço, is the name the venue gives it, and the idea behind it is geographic. Riotur says the show proposes an immersive journey through Brazilian cultural diversity, celebrating folklore, stories and the energy of the regions.14 The venue's own words are similar: a journey through Brazil's rhythms, regions and emotions, from the backlands to funk and from MPB to percussion.1 Anyone searching for the Roxy dinner show Aquele Abraço production will find that the structure is the point: you move across the country.
Riotur lists some of the stops. The rhythms and cultural expressions of the five regions of the country are covered, from the festa junina to the oxen of Parintins, from maracatu to the chula, a dance from the gaucho south, with figures such as Carmen Miranda and João Gilberto among the personalities who appear.6 That list is wide on purpose. It runs from a country party in the north-east calendar to a river festival in the Amazon and a dance from the far south, so no single region owns the evening.
For a first-time visitor this is useful. You do not need to know the songs, because the show is built to be understood by people who are new to the country, and the venue says as much, describing a country that feels elegant and popular, refined and moving in the same breath, built so that visitors from abroad can follow it and locals can take pride in it.13 Think of it less as a performance you must decode and more as a guided walk through Brazilian music, with costumes and light doing much of the explaining.
From the backlands to funk and percussion
Sound is where the evening is easiest to describe. The venue names the range when it says the show travels from the sertão to funk and from MPB to percussion.1 MPB is the shorthand Brazilians use for their modern popular music, the songwriting tradition that grew out of bossa nova and samba. Put that next to the backlands, where the sound is rural and rooted, and next to funk, which is the beat of Rio's favelas and parties, and you can see how much ground the program covers.
Riotur counts the music in plain numbers. The article describes 55 songs expressing joy and Brazilianness from north to south,5 spread across 21 scenes that tell a little of Brazil, with 60 artists made up of dancers, singers and musicians.4 A scene count that high means short, quick changes rather than a few long numbers, which suits an audience that may have just finished dinner and wants variety, not a single long act.
There is a second layer of references on top of the music. Riotur names Carmen Miranda and João Gilberto among the personalities who appear,6 artists whose names carry the story of Brazilian song abroad. You do not need to know either one to enjoy the night, but a quick look at their music before you go makes the references land, and it gives you something to talk about over dessert. If you like to prepare, a short playlist of samba, bossa nova and forró does the job.
Pick your night
Which way into the show suits you?
Begin with the evening you imagine, and the matching package appears.
If A short evening, only the stage
The show ticket
The show-only listing runs about 1.5 hours.
If A full dinner before the curtain
Dinner and show
The evening listing is 1.5 to 3.5 hours long.
If A drink and some music, no meal
The package with a welcome drink
It adds the opening act, a welcome drink and mixed nuts.16
If The longest menu, with wine and photos
The Brasil package
The venue lists a five-course dinner with wine and photos.17
If To learn the show first
Read this guide, then choose
Riotur counts 21 scenes and 55 songs in the production.4
Ways to see it
Ways into the same stage
The full night
Dinner and show
The full evening
- Takes1.5 to 3.5 hours
- DinnerIncluded in the packages with dinner15
- CancelUp to 24 hours before
The light entry
Show with a drink
The light entry
See the ticketsThe cast, the band and the director
Visitors who search for the Roxy dinner show elenco, the Portuguese word for the cast, usually want to know who is on stage. The honest answer from the sources is about the size and the makeup of the company, not individual names. The venue says more than 60 artists lead the experience,1 and Riotur breaks that into dancers, singers and musicians.4 The venue's own page names Abel Gomes as director of the production.3
Abel Gomes comes to the stage with a public profile. Riotur says he was responsible for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics in Rio and for recent New Year parties on the Copacabana seafront.19 Ceremonies of that kind are made of big visual ideas, moving crowds and music tied to place, and you can recognise the same instincts in a show that moves quickly between regions and uses screens and costume to change the setting.
Before the main show there is a separate warm-up. The venue's packages list an opening act with Banda Roxy, the house band, before the main performance starts.16 That means live musicians are part of the evening from early on, and the room gets its first music while people are still finishing their meal. The pages we could read do not list individual performers, so treat any name you see elsewhere as unconfirmed until the venue publishes it.
The building blocks
What the production is made of
At the start
The old facade on screen
The opening image is the cinema's former front.10
Across the map
The regions of Brazil
Festa junina, Parintins, maracatu and chula are among the themes.6
In the sound
Backlands to funk
The venue names the sertão, funk, MPB and percussion.1
On the screen
Places and people
The Maracanã appears behind the performers.11
In a scene
The Amazon
The venue says the Amazon also takes the stage.12
Throughout
A tribute to living culture
The venue calls it a celebration of an elegant, popular Brazil.13
The screen, the Amazon and the old facade
A large screen behind the stage does a lot of the storytelling. A photograph in Riotur's article shows the production opening on a picture of the cinema's former front, projected behind the stage,10 a neat way to remind the room of where it is sitting, in a hall that began as a cinema. The building began life as a cinema, and the production does not hide that: it starts by looking at the front of the old cinema, then turns toward the country.
The screen also carries places. One photograph in the same Riotur article shows a picture of the Maracanã stadium appearing behind the performers,11 and the venue says a part of the show gives the Amazon its own place on stage, with a message about looking after the country.12 That detail matters for the tone. The evening is not only a party of rhythms; it has a moment that points at the forest and its protection, which makes the production feel more like a portrait than a revue.
Technology is something the venue stresses in its description of the night, putting stage technology next to gastronomy and live music in its account of the restored cinema.2 In practice that means light, projection and sound working together with the live performers. From the table you see the stage straight on, and the dome and the curtain are part of the picture, so it is worth picking a table with a clear view of the screen if you can choose.
Video
A night at the dinner show in Copacabana
Jeremy Daines on YouTube · The video stays unloaded until you press play.
Aquele Abraço celebrates a Brazil that is elegant, popular, sophisticated and moving all at once.
Before the curtain
A checklist for the show part of the night
Arrive and look3
During the show3
- Expect Banda Roxy live before the main performance16
- Choose a table with a clear view of the screen
- Keep a charged phone for a quick photo between scenes
What the show is not, and how to enjoy it
Riotur makes a point worth repeating: the show is about Brazilian culture, which goes beyond seminude samba dancers.20 If you were picturing a carnival parade in a theatre, adjust the expectation. The production draws on folklore, regional dances, famous musicians and landscape, and the city tourism board is explicit that the subject is the wider culture, not the stereotype. That is good news if you worry about a tourist-style display, because the stage is meant to teach as much as to dazzle, and a visitor leaves knowing more than they arrived with.
The show is also not a separate ticket in the way a concert is. The venue says it is included in every package and that the packages differ only in how much dinner, service and extras they add,7 so you choose the evening that suits your appetite and the stage part comes with it, and the Copacabana and Rio de Janeiro packages add a full dinner on top.15 Anyone who wants the stage only can pick the package with a welcome drink and nuts, which has no dinner,16 or the show-only listing shown in the calculator below.
To enjoy it, arrive in time to look around. The venue invites guests to come early for the dome, the golden curtain and the ceiling,18 and the early minutes are the best time to take photographs of the room, before the lights change. Then let the evening carry you. Clap along when the band invites it, read the screen for context, and save your questions about the songs for afterwards, when the cast is no longer moving at the speed of the music.
FAQ
Fast answers to common questions.
Is the Roxy show suitable for people new to Brazil?
Yes, it is built for newcomers.
The venue says it is made so visitors from abroad can understand it and locals can feel proud.13
Who directs the production?
How many songs and scenes does it have?
Is it only about carnival?
Is there live music before the main show?
Yes, an opening act with Banda Roxy.
The venue lists the opening act in its packages, ahead of the main performance.16
Does the show appear in every package?
Yes, it is in all of them.
The venue says the packages differ in dinner, service and extras.7
Does the production mention the Amazon?
Yes, the Amazon takes the stage.
The venue says the show carries a message about looking after the country.12
Sources
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Riotur (Rio de Janeiro city tourism) · Em outubro, Roxy Dinner Show: o novo equipamento turístico do Rio! ↩
- Riotur (Rio de Janeiro city tourism) · Em outubro, Roxy Dinner Show: o novo equipamento turístico do Rio! ↩
- Riotur (Rio de Janeiro city tourism) · Em outubro, Roxy Dinner Show: o novo equipamento turístico do Rio! ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · The Roxy ↩
- Riotur (Rio de Janeiro city tourism) · Em outubro, Roxy Dinner Show: o novo equipamento turístico do Rio! ↩
- Riotur (Rio de Janeiro city tourism) · Em outubro, Roxy Dinner Show: o novo equipamento turístico do Rio! ↩
- Riotur (Rio de Janeiro city tourism) · Em outubro, Roxy Dinner Show: o novo equipamento turístico do Rio! ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Riotur (Rio de Janeiro city tourism) · Em outubro, Roxy Dinner Show: o novo equipamento turístico do Rio! ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Roxy Dinner Show (the venue's own site) · ROXY Dinner Show | An immersive journey through Brazil ↩
- Riotur (Rio de Janeiro city tourism) · Em outubro, Roxy Dinner Show: o novo equipamento turístico do Rio! ↩
- Riotur (Rio de Janeiro city tourism) · Em outubro, Roxy Dinner Show: o novo equipamento turístico do Rio! ↩
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