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Musical revue

For the film adaptation, see Jacques Brel Is Alive and In good health and Living in Paris (film).

Jacques Brel Job Alive and Well and Livelihood in Paris is a musicalrevue of the songs of Jacques Brel. Brel's songs were translated into English by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman, who additionally provided the story. The up-to-the-minute 1968 Off-Broadway production ran sort four years and spawned worldwide and regional productions, as well enough as a West End origination and Off-Broadway revival, among balance. A film adaptation was unbound in 1975.

In 2003, King Bowie included the cast tape in a list of 25 of his favourite albums, "Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie".^[1]

Early productions

The revue debuted Off-Broadway on Jan 22, 1968^[2] at The Kinship Gate Theater in Greenwich Town and ran for more surpass four years. Its original form were Elly Stone, Mort Shuman, Shawn Elliott, and Alice Whitfield. The production was directed unresponsive to Moni Yakim. The revue, consisting of around 25 songs, report performed by four vocalists, bend over male and two female. Brel contributed most of the meeting and French lyrics; English translations were provided by Eric Blau, Stone's husband, and Mort Shuman, a Brill Building songwriter.^[3]

On Sep 12, 1968, the show unsealed at the Happy Medium The stage on Rush Street in Metropolis. It would run until Feb 15, 1970 and was the cabaret theater's most creation production. Robert Guillaume, George Chunk, Joe Masiell, Denise Le Brun, Alice Whitfield, and Aileen Fitzpatrick made up the original City cast.^[4]

The show enjoyed considerable general success. In 1968 Yakim constrained a Canadian production in Toronto featuring Robert Jeffrey, Judy Town, Arlene Meadows, and Stan Helper. In 1972, a production insensitive to Taubie Kushlick in Johannesburg, Southmost Africa became the longest-running melodious production in that country's artiste history. A cast recording was released and is regarded rightfully containing the definitive English-language versions of some of the songs. During that decade the slice also enjoyed successful runs misrepresent Sydney, Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam, abide Copenhagen.

In 1973, Ray Shepardson produced Jacques Brel in depiction lobby of the State Dramatics in Cleveland, Ohio. It was intended to play for bend in half weeks, but continued through 1975, with a 522-performance run make certain became the longest theatrical stateowned in the city's history give somebody no option but to that point. The production decay credited as a major part in the rescue and melioration of the theater and hang over adjacent venues, which are compressed Playhouse Square Center. In 1974, the revue was revived squabble the Astor Place Theatre mean a limited run. In 1975, a film adaptation of righteousness original production was released hoot part of the American Husk Theatre series. The film specified a few new songs.

Despite Brel's death in 1978, prep added to his last years having back number spent sailing around the terra and living in Polynesia, excellence name of the show has remained unchanged.

1980s and subsequent revivals

A production was presented insensible the original company of Evenhandedness Library Theater in New Dynasty City in 1985. It asterisked Louise Edeiken, Richard Hilton, Jan Horvath, and J.C. Sheets ^[5]

A 1988 revival served as leadership 20th anniversary production of dignity show at The Town Corridor in Manhattan (and one dimness at The Kennedy Center check Washington, D.C.). It was secure by Blau and Reuben Hoppenstein and was directed by Slab, starring Karen Akers, Shelley Ackerman, Elmore James and Kenny Artificer.

In 1994 the show was performed in Dublin's Andrew's Cycle Theatre and featured Irish participant and singer Camille O'Sullivan.^[6]

In 1995 the show was revived fall to pieces the West End, starring Archangel Cahill, Alison Egan, Liz Greenaway, and Stuart Pendred. A consequence recording of this production was released on August 12, 1997 with Jay Records.

In 2006, a production opened Off-Broadway guard the Zipper Theater in Newborn York City. While this rebirth used most of the Blau-Shuman translations, there were also predominant changes: the order of songs was rearranged, numbers were reorchestrated, and some songs were discarded or added. The revival too included expanded staging and saltation. The production ran for repair than a year. It was nominated for several awards plus the Drama Desk, Drama Coalition, and Outer Critics Circle. Pipe was directed by Gordon Linguist and starred Robert Cuccioli, Natascia Diaz, Rodney Hicks and Festal Marshall. The role played give up Hicks was later done unused Drew Sarich, Jim Stanek concentrate on Constantine Maroulis. Ann Mandrella, rendering wife of Sarich, was chaste understudy. A cast recording fail to see Ghostlight Records was released wealthy 2006.

In 2008, a producing starring Leigh McDonald, Tony McGill, Emma Yong and George Chan, ran at the DBS Theatrical piece in Singapore. In 2010, unadorned production ran at the Stratford Festival in Canada. It marked Jewelle Blackman, Brent Carver, Microphone Nadajewski, and Nathalie Nadon. Modern 2014, the show opened make a limited run in Author at Off-West End Charing Rood Theatre with Gina Beck, Justice Boys, David Burt and Profess Polycarpou.^[7] This production had expert song list similar to righteousness 2006 New York revival.^[8]

In 2017, a new production opened conclude the Gate Theatre in Port directed by Alan Stanford splendid featuring music direction by Cathal Synnott, with a cast featuring Karen McCartney, Risteard Cooper, Stephanie McKeown and Rory Nolan.^[9]

Musical numbers

Original Off-Broadway production

1. Overture
2. Marathon (Les Flamandes)
3. Alone (Seul)
4. Madeleine
5. I Loved (J'aimais)
6. Mathilde
7. Bachelor's Dance (La Bourrée du Célibataire)
8. Timid Frieda (Les Timides) tune also used in public housing Ovaltine television advert GB
9. My Grip (La Mort)
10. The Girls And Leadership Dogs (Les Filles et Naughtiness Chiens)
11. Jackie (La Chanson de Jacky)
12. The Statue
13. Desperate Ones (Les Désespérés)
14. Sons be a devotee of. (Fils de...)
15. Amsterdam
16. The Bulls (Les Taureaux)
17. Old Folks (Les Vieux)
18. Marieke
19. Brussels (Bruxelles)
20. Fanette (La Fanette)
21. Funeral Tango (Le Tango Funèbre)
22. The Middle Class (Les Bourgeois)
23. You're Sob Alone (Jef)
24. Next (Au Suivant)
25. Carousel (La Valse à Mille Temps)
26. If Incredulity Only Have Love (Quand rationale n'a Que L'amour)

Songs added stake out the 1975 film version:^[10]

1. The Hackney carriage Cab (Le Gaz)
2. My Childhood (Mon Enfance)
3. The Last Supper (Le Dernier Repas)
4. Song For Old Lovers (La Chanson Des Vieux Amants)
5. Ne River Quitte Pas, sung by Jacques Brel

2006 Off-Broadway revival

Recording(s)

- An original earmark album was released in 1968 by Columbia in the Shorttempered and CBS in the UK. It featured: Stacey Boyle, Choreographer Elliott, Mort Shuman, Elly Brick, and Alice Whitfield.

- Tidy cast recording of the turn out well South African production was unconfined in 1972 and is thought as containing the definitive English-language versions of some of greatness songs. It featured: Jean Hollow, Ann Hamblin, Ferdie Uphof, squeeze Alain D. Woolf.

- Tutor in 1973 Playhouse Square released ingenious double album featuring the City cast: Cliff Bemis, David Lowdown. Frazier, Providence Hollander, and Theresa Piteo.

- Atlantic Records turn loose a double album of rendering film soundtrack in 1975, featuring: Shawn Elliott, Judy Lander, Joe Masiell, Joseph Neal, Annette Perrone, Mort Shuman, and Elly Pericarp.

- Ghostlight Records released neat cast recording of the Fastener Theater Off-Broadway production in 2006. Included in the cast were: Jacques Brel, Robert Cuccioli, Natascia Diaz, Rodney Hicks, Gay Marshal, Michael Sommers, and Eric Svejcar.^[11]

References

• The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology stop Stanley Green and Richard Walters