There was also a performance by the symphony orchestra conducted by Leo Renard and a speech by Sebastião Sampaio, the Consul General of Brazil in New York, which became the first broadcast with sound in Latin America through the Movietone audio system.
[2][4][5] The theater gained prominence as a concert hall during the 1930s and 1940s, and began hosting São Paulo's grand carnival balls in the 1950s.
In the 1960s, it was sold to Record, which used the venue to broadcast the program O Fino da Bossa, presented by Elis Regina and Jair Rodrigues, and the III Festival de Música Popular Brasileira, held in 1967 with the participation of Edu Lobo, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil.
[3][7] In 2001, the theater was completely restored through a partnership between CIE Brasil (now T4F – Time For Fun), which invested in the construction of Credicard Hall, and the Grupo Abril.
Renault Theater earned three stars and the following consensus: "Stage for the musical 'The Lion King' since March 2013, the art nouveau venue has no seating in its lobby and no signage for the drinking fountain.
The space between the rows is small, and the visibility of the stage is good in the audience but poor in the mezzanine - with blind spots, even".