Nice Work And She's Got It: Kathleen Marshall On Directing Charles Aznavour's MY PARIS at Long Wharf

Director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall isn't one to dwell on the present. Best known for helming period pieces like NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, ANYTHING GOES, GREASE, THE PAJAMA GAME and GREASE, the three-time Tony winner now goes to France, by way of New Haven, Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre, for MY PARIS, a new musical based on the life and times of French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

And what better composer to capture the feel of turn-of-the-last-century Paris than the internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter, Charles Aznavour.

"What really made me want to do this, and what brought it all together, was Charles Aznavour's music, which we like to say is really French music, not Cole Porter or Jerry Herman doing their version of French music," Marshall tells American Theatre.

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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 It and Anything Goes) brings it all to whirling, spinning, sassy life.C'est magnifique!

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