Singin' in the Rain, and how Paris fell in love with US musicals

2015/03/11 16:10:37 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

A sold-out theatre run in Paris for & quot;Singin & #039; in the Rain & quot;, which opens Thursday, marks another success for American musicals in a country where they once attracted sneers. & quot;In France we are experts at creating categories -- there is culture and there is entertainment, & quot; said Jean-Luc Choplin, who runs the Chatelet Theatre where the musical based on the 1950s Gene Kelly classic will run for two weeks this month. When Choplin took over the theatre in 2006, the idea of putting on American musicals on the banks of the Seine, just a stone & #039;s throw from Notre Dame Cathedral and the Louvre museum, was tantamount to cultural barbarity.
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