Paulo Afonso de Lima lives in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,where he has been
for more than thirty years a recognized Theatre Director and Drama
Teacher. Mr. Lima has directed more than seventy plays and musicals in
his Country, including HAMLET, FAUSTO by Goethe, THE DRESSER by Ronald
Harwood, HUGHIE by O'Neill, SONDHEIM TONIGHT (the first time the work
of Stephen Sondhein was presented to a Brazilian audience),FRED AND
JUDY-THE SONGS OF GARLAND AND ASTAIRE, GARDEL-O MUSICAL, WHITE NIGHTS
- a theatrical adaptation of Dostoievsky work, AMERIKA ( a musical
piece on Kafka famous book with music of George Gershwin and Scott
Joplin), LES MISERABLES ( not the musical but the staight adaptation
of Victor Hugo work by French playwright Guy LaForret, with more than
seventy actors. This production was also staged by Mr. Lima in
Portugal with a Portuguese cast), A FALECIDA by Nelson Rodrigues (the
most important Brazilian playwright), OEDIPUS by Sophocles, as well as
university productions of CABARET, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, STEEL PIER,
DANCING IN THE DARK ( a musical approach for the stage of Lars Von
Thiers motion picture - music by Björk),THE BLUE ANGEL by Pam Gems and
recently, SWEENEY TODD (among many others), all of them at CAL, the
most famous drama school in Brazil. Mr Lima is recipient of many
Brazilian theatre awards in his career and in 1983 was invited by the
U.S. Government to visit during one year many American theatre
centers. About the staging of THE DRESSER, Mr Harwood (in Rio de
Janeiro for the opening night) declared to Brazilian newspapers : "Mr.
Lima approach to my play has a theatricality that, in more than fifty
productions worldwide, I have never expected to find. Bravo!". Paulo
Afonso de Lima is a contant researcher of the evolution of the Musical
Theatre in America, in his Country and in the whole world. His book A
BROADWAY É AQUI (Broadway is Here) about the amazing increase of the
American Musical Theatre among Brazilian audience, will reach
Brazilian bookstores later this year.
 Carnival time in Brazil:SASSARICANDO - a hit musical in Rio!
February 5, 2010
SASSARICANDO,E O RIO INVENTOU A MARCHINHA- principalmente nestes dias que antecedem ao Carnaval, programa obrigatrio para os turistas que visitam o Rio de Janeiro e, claro, para os cariocas tambem.
 CARMEN MIRANDA BIO-MUSICAL: last performances in Rio.
January 31, 2010
CARMEN, O IT BRASILEIRO (CARMEN, THE BAZILIAN 'IT') last performances in Rio de Janeiro.
 O REI E EU (THE KING AND I) in Brazil
January 30, 2010
Aps os premiados sucessos de pblico e crtica My Fair Lady e West Side Story , Jorge Takla prepara em So Paulo a sua mais grandiosa montagem de um musical originrio da Broadway: O Rei e Eu, de Richard Rodgers e Oscar Hammerstein II.
 RONALDO DAL'BIANCO: New Faces of Brazilian Musical Theatre - Part 1
January 25, 2010
O site brazil.broadwayworld.com inicia com o ator e cantor Ronaldo Dal'Bianco uma srie de artigos em que a nova gerao de talentos, a partir de agora, juntamente com nossas entrevistas usuais com nomes j firmados no panorama do nosso teatro musical, vo ganhar tambm o seu espao.
 BWW Review: SORRIA VOCE ESTÁ SENDO ROUBADO-A Brazilian Musical with a Cast of Sixty
January 21, 2010
No Teatro Glauce Rocha todas as quartas e quintas as 19 horas, o pano se abre para mais uma exploso de talento e teatralidade: Ernesto Piccolo e Rogrio Blat esto de volta cidade com mais um de seus trabalhos com gosto de festa, onde o humor e a musica se unem arrebatadoramente (parece impossivel mas s ir at l comprovar) denuncia social. SORRIA VOCE EST SENDO ROUBADO, o mais novo musical do Palco Social - Oficinas de Criao de Espetaculo, a continuidade de um trabalho que,como afirmam seus criadores, foge completamente do padro das Companhias e espetaculos habituais.
 BWW Interview: Sabrina Korgut-Brazilian Musical Theatre Star
January 18, 2010
Ela brilhou em COMPANY, MISS SAIGON, LADO A LADO COM SONDHEIM (SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM), A PERA DO MALANDRO entre muitos outros musicais. Agora Sabrina Korgut est de volta ao Rio de Janeiro para mas uma vez mostrar aos cariocas sua divertidssima e apreciadssima participao em AVENIDA Q (AVENUE Q).
 CLAUDIA RAIA: FROM 'A CHORUS LINE' TO 'PERNAS PRO AR'
January 16, 2010
Ela foi Cassie em A CHORUS LINE,Audrey em A PEQUENA LOJA DOS HORRORES(LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS)e Charity em SWEET CHARITY. Dessa vez Claudia Raia Hel,uma dona de casa como muitas outras, na megaproduo PERNAS PRO AR, no Rio de Janeiro.
 BWW Review: VERSÃO BRASILEIRA (BROADWAY IN PORTUGUESE)
January 13, 2010
A foto que ilustra esta crtica no do espetaculo que ontem estreou no Espao Sesc Copacabana. Nela esto Inez Viana, Alessandra Verney, Ivana Domenico, Gottsha, Ada Chaseliov e Stella Maria Rodrigues em COLE PORTER- ELE NUNCA DISSE QUE ME AMAVA, onde o publico e a imprensa carioca conheceu pela primeira vez a expresso: 'Um espetaculo de Charles Meller e Claudio Botelho'.
 BRAZILIAN BOOKSHELF: OS REIS DOS MUSICAIS.
January 11, 2010
The first book on Musical Theatre in Brazil
 BWW INTERVIEWS: Claudio Botelho Talks ANNIE, KISS ME KATE & FIDDLER in the Works
January 8, 2010
CLAUDIO BOTELHO REVELA DETALHES EXCLUSIVOS DE SEUS PROXIMOS PROJETOS.
 Upcoming Musical Theatre Season in Brazil - 2010
January 7, 2010
A temporada teatral do Rio e em So Paulo neste ano continua repleta de musicais.
 A Little Bit of Broadway In Brazil
January 6, 2010
FROM MY FAIR LADY TO SPRING AWAKENING FOUR DECADES OF BROADWAY MUSICALS IN BRAZIL.
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