West Side Story continues at Theatre du Châtelet, Paris until 31 December 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
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Exclusive: Paris’ Lido2 to stage A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum
Fresh from a triumph with their opening English-language musical Cabaret, Paris’ newest theatre, the Lido2 in the Champs-Elysees, has announced its first show back following a ten-month closedown for a major makeover will be the hilarious A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum at the end of the year.
‘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!
Singin’ in the Rain – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Singin’ in the Rain continues at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, until 26 March and returns there from 27 November 2015 to 15 January 2016. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s raining Gene Kelly at the Chatelet with the pre-Christmas stage premiere of his 1951 masterpiece An American in Paris (now transferred to Broadway) quickly […]
Sleepin’ Bee – Theatre Michel, Paris
Sleepin’ Bee was performed at the Theatre Michel, Paris. What a joy after coming out of the lengthy showcase of Dance of the Vampires – scheduled for the Mogador Theatre next fall – to be able to listen to real music just next door at a performance of Sleepin’ Bee at Theatre Michel. Sleeping Bee, an […]
Jennings and Le Prevost reprise My Fair Lady in Paris
Alex Jennings is reprising the Professor Higgins role that won him a 2003 Olivier Best Actor in a Musical Award in a revival of My Fair Lady at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris next month. Jennings took over the Higgins part from Jonathan Pryce at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane in a show that hit […]
