The Young Girls of Rochefort continues at Théâtre Du Lido, Paris until 11 January 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This joyous Lido production makes a persuasive case for the piece’s enduring theatrical magic.
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Théâtre du Châtelet celebrates amazing attendance figures for West Side Story
The enduring popularity of West Side Story, now well into its seventh decade, has hit new peaks with the just-ended ten-week run of the Bernstein-Sondheim-Robbins-Laurents musical at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
‘Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!’: Paris prepares for the Kander and Ebb classic Cabaret
The French, who didn’t use to favour Broadway musicals, now turn out in droves to see them and with Cabaret playing at the new Lido2 Theatre on the Champs-Elysees and 42nd Street paying an eagerly-awaited return visit to the Theatre du Chatelet down by the Seine, they have two Broadway musicals to choose from over the festive period. And you don’t have to pay London Kit Kat Club prices for a ticket!
Musical theatre is bustin’ out all over in Paris
Musical theatre is bustin’ out all over in Paris these autumn days and American actress-impersonator Christina Bianco opens tonight (Thursday) in Funny Girl at the gloriously refurbished Marigny just off the Champs Elysees. Bianco plays old-time Broadway comedienne Fanny Brice in the only part Barbra Streisand ever performed on the West End stage back in […]
Is the success of Singin’ in the Rain a sign Paris audiences are getting the musical theatre bug?
Singin’ in the Rain completed its six-week run in the nave of the Grand Palais in Paris earlier on this month and proved itself the most popular English-language musical since the Theatre du Chatelet started bringing one over every year. The powers-that-be at the1,800-seat Chatelet, closed for two years for elaborate refurbishment, daringly revived their Christmas show (which had two spins […]
42nd Street – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
42nd Street continues at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 8 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Now here’s a great idea for a Christmas present (especially if someone else pays for it): best seats at the glorious 1,800-seater Chatelet on the banks of the Seine, Eurostar tickets (cheap right now) and […]
Double helping of 42nd Street – first stop Theatre du Chatelet in Paris
While London readies itself for a March revival of 42nd Street, the musical that propelled Catherine Zeta-Jones to stardom in 1984, Paris gets in first with a seven-week English-language run of the same show at the Theatre du Chatelet from 17 November to 8 January. Stephen Mear will be directing a Chatelet cast headed by […]
An American in Paris – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
An American in Paris continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 4 January. Where else but gay Paree to launch the world premiere of a musical inspired by An American in Paris, the 1951 movie with those unforgettable Gene Kelly dance sequences that won six Oscars and is as much loved today as it […]
