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BWW Review: GYPSY- Brazilian Musical Theatre state of the art.

The Brazilian production of GYPSY is, for sure, the highest point a Broadway musical ever achieved in Brazil.The production values as well as a perfect craftsmanship by the creative team, the cast and mainly the direction and translation, turn out GYPSY in such an amazing concept that could be compared with the latest Broadway revivals of the show. It is just perfect. This is a GYPSY not only for Brazil, but for the World.



A administração desse site, em Nova York, lido por milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo, ao inaugurar uma página inteiramente dedicada ao Brasil e confiar a este que lhes escreve a editoria do material aqui divulgado, optou (como nos sites BroadwayWorld dedicados a inúmeros países) para atingir seu publico alvo (brasileiros residentes ou não no Brasil ) que todas as matérias, com excessão de seus respectivos títulos ,deveriam ser escritas em português.



Obtive desta vez uma especial concessão, após ver GYPSY no Teatro Villa Lobos, no Rio de Janeiro, para que me fosse permitido escrever pelo menos um parágrafo em Ingles , nesta crítica sobre o momento histórico do Teatro Brasileiro que acabei de testemunhar. O mundo precisa conhecer a GYPSY do Brasil. Não porque este seja de longa data o meu musical favorito. Nao. De modo algum. Mas porque já é hora de Charles Möeller e Claudio Botelho terem um reconhecimento internacional por realizarem o que era absolutamente impossível: suplantar os Criadores e aprimorarem com um talento que dispensa tryouts ou workshops, as obras originais.



Tudo é absolutamente perfeito na "nossa" GYPSY. (permitam-me que a trate assim). O texto de Arthur Laurents e as letras de Stephen Sondheim alcançam, em sua versão brasileira ,um mosaico de detalhes linguisticos e soluções verbais que só os que conhecem a obra original podem, à distancia e sem envolvimentos emocionais, avaliar.



É absolutamente inadmissível alguem criticar um espetáculo se utilizando de comparações. Mas, desculpem, no caso é mesmo inevitável. Vamos começar pela primeira montagem sul americana de 1992 em Buenos Aires no Teatro Astral, dirigida por Omar Cyrulnik ( com as hoje divas Mabel Manzotti como Mama Rose e Sandra Guida- que brilhou recentemente como Velma Kelly no CHICAGO portenho) que fez da obra uma realização não comprometedora mas bastante modesta e decepcionante em diversos aspectos. Passamos agora pela controvertida GYPSY de Bernadette Peters, dirigida pelo grande Sam Mendes (mas que parecia gritar a todo instante: "olha como podemos transformar poeira em teatro contemporâneo!!!") e chegando finalmente à Arthur Laurents ( o homem que começou tudo em 1959) e seu recente revival com Patti LuPone.Não vi Angela Lansbury nem Tyne Dale interpretando Rose e, é claro, as Gypsy da Alemanha, da Italia, etc,etc,etc. Na verdade minhas economias não permitem que eu ande ao redor do mundo "catando" GYPSYs em diversos continentes. Tambem gostaria de jurar que na época que Ethel Merman cantava GYPSY na Broadway eu ainda estava no curso primário. Mas posso afirmar, sem estar cometendo uma heresia, que a GYPSY de Möeller e Botelho reabilitou a America do Sul, deu um "banho" em Sam Mendes e... Bem...Como produção e direção é superior ao que Arthur Laurents fez recentemente com sua propria obra. Não que eu não tenha AMADO Patti LuPone e Laura Benanti. Mas é que...Para encurtar a conversa: Mr Laurents ficaria muito orgulhoso ou morreria de inveja (dizem que é o seu principal defeito) dessa GYPSY falada e cantada em português. Isso eu posso garantir!



A tradução não será mais necessário comentar. Claudio Botelho é Claudio Botelho. É admirável quando se vê um homem , principalmente um artista,conseguir pairar acima de todos os julgamentos. E Claudio conseguiu, com grande esforço e muito mérito, esta posição praticamente impossível.

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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.

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