Kathleen Marshall, Alfred Uhry, Jason Robert Brown Join Charles Aznavour To Create MY PARIS

"In America, it's the music. In France, it's the lyrics."

So says Charles Aznavour when discussing his approach to songwriting with the New York Times.

Though the nearly 92-year-old singer/songwriter is not exactly a household name on these shores, to say the name Charles Aznavour in Paris is like saying the name Frank Sinatra in Hoboken.

And after 70 years of enjoying life as one of the world's most beloved and respected entertainers, he's trying something new; writing an American musical.

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MY PARIS is new musical about the life and times of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the artist who captured the gaiety, color, and heartbreak of Montmartre, Le Can-Can, and the world of Le Moulin Rouge. Inhabited by the colorful people he painted, this is the story of a great artist who loved a world that never quite loved him back.

Music and Lyrics are by legendary performer Charles Aznavour. The book is by Oscar, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy and The Last Night of Ballyhoo) with English lyrics and musical adaptation by Tony-winner Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years). Tony-winning director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall (Nice Work if You Can Get Itand Anything Goes) brings it all to whirling, spinning, sassy life.C'est magnifique!

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