In the 1970s and ’80s, American productions of “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” proliferated like so many Starbucks. For a long time, it was the small-cast musical revue, ...

Production conception, English lyrics and additional material by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman Music and lyrics by Jacques Brel Directed by Stafford Arima Starring Brent Carver At the Stratford ...

Step into the shoes of the late chansonnier with these five tracks from his musical revue, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris – they’ll make you shake with fury, laughter and sadness ...

Sing’theatre brings back the beloved off-Broadway musical revue, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, which was first staged here in 2008. Twenty-three songs by the late Belgian singer ...

Unlike the title of the enduring musical revue that just opened at ACT Theatre, Jacques Brel is not alive and well and living in Paris. But the sardonic, wise and intensely emotive songs of this ...

On the 25th anniversary of the death of Belgium's most famous son comes a 40-track double album of the existential Gallic cool that influenced David Bowie, Ray Davies, Leonard Cohen and Scott Walker, ...

In the early 1970s the singer, songwriter and poet Rod McKuen was loved and loathed in equal measure. His sentimentality was too much for some but if it bothered him, he never revealed it publicly. He ...

Jacques Brel was one of the great representatives of French chanson in the post-World War II period. Born into a bourgeois family, Brel rejected the future awaiting him in his father’s cardboard ...

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