Jacques Brel - SYNOPSIS

1968 Off-Broadway
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris the Musical - Synopsis Lyrics

This experimental musical revue combines the songwriting talents of the renowned Belgian-born Jacques Brel with the distinct stylistic sense of 1970s film. Brel's songs deal, movingly so, with topics as vast as love, death, and war. Bringing them to life seems a challenge, but one met by director Denis Heroux. Using tools as unexpected as puppets and extensive location shooting, Heroux places Brel's songs in a unique context -- one that frees them from theatrical constraints. Mort Shuman (who wrote songs for The Drifters and Elvis Presley) converts the songs into beautiful English-language versions, but does not lose the essence intended by Brel. In an age where the classic troubadour seems to have vanished, JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS reminds one of the need for singers to translate universal emotion into song.

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Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

SYNOPSIS
Marathon
Alone
Madeleine
I Loved
Mathilde
Bachelor's Dance
Timid Frieda
Jackie
Desperate Ones
Sons of...
Amsterdam
The Bulls
Old Folks
Marieke
Fanette
Funeral Tango
The Middle Class
You're Not Alone
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Carousel
If We Only Have Love