Aventurera Tickets

Aventurera is Mexico's longest playing and most popular musical with a list of Mexican stars that reads like a "who's who" of the entertainment sector.

This unique musical features audience participation throughout the whole evening and touches on various social and political issues. It is set up as a cabaret and many in the audience sit in the cafe style tables on stage as part of the show.

Aventurera is a story based in the 1940's about a naïve young woman, Elena Tejero (Aventurera), whose calm life is torn to pieces when her father commits suicide after her mother leaves with her lover. Elena, single and without resources, immigrates to the City of Juarez, Northern Mexico where she accepts to work without suspecting that she will be prostituted.

Performing in Aventurera are some of Mexico's well known actors and actress such as Edith Gonzalez, Carmen Salinas, Jorge Salinas, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Juan Ferrara, Eduardo Santamarina, Xavier Ortiz, Latin Lover and Maria Boquitas.

Wardrobe, music and the stage props will fascinate everyone who attends. It is not often an audience has the opportunity to interact in a musical with the stars they admire in their telenovelas. Get ready to be swept away into the 1940s.


History of Aventurera, from Film to Stage


The musical is adapted from a 1949 Mexican film directed by Alberto Gout and starring rhumba dancer Ninon Sevilla. Sevilla became a star in the Spanish-speaking world with her portrayal of Elena, a determined feminist, whose character shocked 1949 audiences.

The movie ushered in a new genre, the cabaretera film, which was Mexico's equivalent of American film noir. Set in the city, filled with femme fatales and gangsters, the films were fast-paced, acerbic and world weary, a far cry from the previously popular ranchera films, sticky combinations of romance and schmaltz. The ranchera's singing cowboys were quickly replaced in the public's fancy by the cabaretera's sultry sirens.

Carlos Olmos crafted the stage musical from the original screenplay of Alvaro Custodio and Carlos Sampelayo and opened it at Mexico City's 2,400-seat Teatro Blanquita, where it has been playing to sold-out audiences. The producers have kept patrons coming with novelty casting, filling the roles with telenovela stars and sports figures such as wrestler Latin Lover, known for his eye-boggling physique and suave behavior.

That style of casting has been duplicated with the American tour, which is performed in Spanish. Stars of the Mexican stage, screen and sports worlds fill the cast, including Edith Gonzalez (as Elena), Carmen Salinas, Jorge Salinas, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Juan Ferrara, Eduardo Santamarina, Xavier Ortiz, Maria Boquitas and the aforementioned Latin Lover.

Olmos transformed the film's smoke-filled cabarets and rain-shiny streets into what he calls an "environmental musical." Select theatergoers are seated at tables onstage, enacting the role of Elena's audience. That gives them a close-up view of the lavishly feathered and sequined gowns of the women and the form-fitting 1940s suits and jaunty fedoras of the men.