GOLDEN COPA - History of Copacabana Beach Musical Opens in Rio

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.