Cabaret performer Roberto Araujo played a return engagement at The Green Room 42 November 18. Titled I Just Wanted You to Know, the evening featured stories along with songs by Stephen Sondheim, David Yazbek, Steven Lutvak, and more.
Araujo was accompanied by a five-piece band, led by music director Yasuhiko Fukuoka. Mónica Huarte directed with musical staging by Jason Wise.
See video highlights from the show below:
Hailing from Mexico City, Araujo has appeared in Mexico and the U.S. in such musicals as Rent, Guys and Dolls, Cats, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Xanadu, Les Misérables, and In the Heights. He was featured as the singing voice of Joseph in Dreamworks' Joseph: King of Dreams.
As a cabaret performer, he brought an earlier show, Do You Dream in Spanish, to The Green Room 42 in 2019, and returned for an encore performance of the show later the same year. He's also a winner of the Outstanding Featured Performer Award at the Fresh Fruit Festival.
See photos from the cabaret evening below:
A multi-hyphenate artist, Araujo is also a photographer and video producer whose work has been featured in Playbill, ANIMIZE Magazine, and Beautiful Magazine. Araujo is a video journalist with NY1's On Stage team.