Actor Luís Aleluia, who died in June at the age of 63, will be honored with a concert in September in Loulé and Lisbon, bringing together the team from the show “Noite de reis”, one of the last in which he participated.
“On September 10th and 23rd, the team from the show ‘Noite de Reis’ will come together for a concert in memory of Luís Aleluia – ‘Ao Luís Aleluia – Concerto de Homenagem’. The first show takes place in Loulé, at the Cineteatro Louletano, at 11:30 on September 10, and the second takes place at the Teatro Armando Cortez, at 18:00 on September 23,” reads a statement released today by Casa do Artista, whose board the actor was a member.
The team behind “Noite de reis”, a creation by Teatro do Eléctrico and directed by Ricardo Neves-Neves, is fulfilling “a promise made to Luís Aleluia to organize a fundraising concert for Casa do Artista”.
The proceeds from the two shows, which include, among other things, “moments of classical music, solo pieces for piano and accordion, music by actor João Tempera and an essay on the importance of humor by actor Filipe Vargas,” will go entirely to Casa do Artista.
Luís Aleluia was on the board of Casa do Artista, a project he had been working on since its foundation.
Luís Filipe Aleluia da Costa was born in Setúbal on February 23, 1960, into a separated and poor family, which led him to the Casa do Gaiato, in his hometown, where he lived for seven years, and where he learned the “values that last a lifetime”, as he said in an interview with Manuel Luís Goucha, on TVI, in 2021, when he was 40 years into his career: loyalty, fraternity, complicity, “the value of work, respect for the freedom of others”.
His taste for the stage began in childhood, in the 1960s and 1970s, with galas at Casa do Gaiato and performances in different amateur groups, followed by his professionalization, at the turn of the 1980s, at the Setúbal Animation Theatre (TAS).
The base of the Center for Theatre Studies of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon has the oldest record of his presence on stage in the magazine “Há, mas são verdes!”. It was in 1982, at the Variedades Theater in Lisbon.
With more than a decade on stage, Luís Aleluia’s most successful career comes from television, in 1996, when he revived “As Lições do Tonecas”, with actor José Morais e Castro, on RTP, and transformed José de Oliveira Cosme’s old radio show from the 1930s-1940s into a four-season, 50-episode production.
“Tonecas’s Lessons” also multiplied into shows taken to Portuguese communities all over the world and gave rise to specials such as “Tonecas’s Christmas”, “Tonecas’s Holidays” and “Tonecas Returns to School”.
On television, he has also been part of the casts of series such as “Os Homens de Segurança”, “Sétimo Direito”, “O Cacilheiro do Amor” and “Festa é Festa”, currently showing on TVI, productions such as “Alves dos Reis” and “O Processo dos Távoras”, and soap operas such as “Passerelle”, “Na Paz dos Anjos” and “Filha do Mar”.
He also performed comedy sketches on programs such as “Os Malucos do Riso”, “Praça da Alegria” and “Portugal no Coração”.
Tickets for the tribute shows to Luís Aleluia are already on sale: for the show at the Cineteatro Louletano they can be bought on the BOL online platform and cost 7.5 euros, while for the show in Lisbon they can be bought on Ticketline and cost 15 euros. It is also possible to make donations of five, 10 or 15 euros, which do not give access to the show.
