director) the new season only saw the light in June, while it usually started in March (the beginning of fall in the Southern Hemisphere). On the other hand, fans had more Chiquititas than ever before: besides the new episodes on Sundays, a retrospective of previous seasons was aired on the show traditional time slot (weekdays, 6p.m.), a movie version starring Romina Yan and Facundo Arana (Romina was the main protagonist of the first three seasions) was released in July (winter vacations in Argentina), to end the show Agustina Cherri was back as Mili on the show and the usual musical was staged at Teatro Gran Rex from June to September, including a series of special sessions with Romina Yan reprising her role as Belén (as a tie-in for the movie, which starred her). Since it was one of the most profitable shows on the channel, Telefe planned on continuing Chiquititas without Morena. A new season, which would be called Corazones en Banda, was announced. Even though castings were done and a few names were attached to the project, the channel ended up not greenlighting it. Since music was such a huge part of the show and Morena is a huge admirer of Broadway musicals, it was decided Chiquititas would be transformed into a live musical in 1996. The musical broke attendance records in its first year and became a yearly event. Each season held during the July school holidays, a huge production with the entire cast was staged at Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires. The theatral seasons were held between June and September and the scale of shows varied between 1 to 3 per day.Between 1996 to 2001, the show had a new script every season and was personally produced by Morena and they had budgets that normally exceeded US$1 million. Something that has never before been seen in Argentine showbiz industry. Usually during June a one show was presented, during the month of July, two shows were presented daily and they sold out so fast in 1998 a third daily concert, held at the mornings or a noon, had to be added to satisfy the demand. In fact, the 1998 series of concerts are until today the biggest public recorded at the venue. That year, the musical sold 280.000 tickets during 94 concerts. While the storylines for the live version of Chiquititas were extremely more simple than the