Sorria meu bem, sorria: no ar, o Cassino do Chacrinha!

Abstract

This work seeks to investigate the entities that, in relation to each other, compose the text and the textualities of an specific device: the programa de auditório Cassino do Charcinha, a TV show that aired in the 1980's on Rede Globo de Televisão and was replayed on Canal Viva in 2012/2013. Our effort is to comprehend how this independent and multidimensional device, composed by a variety of texts, recaptures and re-signifies elements from the first programas de auditório, entertainment products that were born in the radio (1940's). Strongly influenced by the irreverence of the Brazilian teatro de revista from the beginning of the Twentieth century e by the vivacity and diversity of the Brazilian circus, this kind of show finds its place also on TV since the 1950's. We understand textualities as processes of construction of unstable meanings, with its conditions constantly altered by the movement born in the relations of the entities of a text open to multiple meanings by the action of its readers. That movement, however, leaves its perceptible traces in some moments, that we try to capture in this study. The traces of these textualities are present even in today's programa de auditório devices.