Paris and the Musical

Olaf Jubin is Professor of Musical Theatre and Media Studies at Regent’s University London. He has written, co-written and co-edited several books on popular culture, including British Musical Theatre since 1950, The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical and the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical.

Introduction

Part I. Capital Paris
1. Paris as Symbol – Venita Datta
2. ‘Yes, I’m a Gay Parisian!’ Establishing the Trope of ‘Gay Paree’: The Merry Widow –
Stefan Frey
3. ‘Come and Play Wiz Me in Gay Paree’: Approaching Cole Porter’s Paris –
Hannah Robbins

Part II. Broadway Paris
4. Dressed by Paris: Mlle Modiste, Roberta and No Strings – Maya Cantu
5. Liberated by Paris: A Reconsideration of Three Broadway ‘Flops’ – Miss Liberty, Ben
Franklin in Paris and Dear World – Michael Garber 6. Seduced by Paris: Irma La Douce and Its Journey to Broadway – Stewart
Nicholls

Part III. Hollywood Paris
7. The Capital of Pre-Code Operettas: Paris at Paramount and MGM –
Marguerite Chabrol
8. Paris as Location: Funny Face, Les Girls, Silk Stockings and Gigi – Julia
Foulkes 9. Paris by Hand: Gay Purr-ee and Aristocats – Daniel Batchelder

Part IV. West End Paris
10. Shockwaves at a Distance: Ellis and Herbert’s Bless the Bride – John Snelson 11. Performing Paris. Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Aspects of Love – John Snelson
12. The Courtesan and the Collaborator: Marguerite – Clare Chandler

Part V. Naughty Paris
13. Gay Shame in Gay Paree: Re-contextualising Gender Progressiveness in Two Film
Versions of Victor/Victoria – Florian Seubert
14. À la recherche de quel temps? Can-Can and the Fluidity of Paris perdu –
Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris
15. Art, Artifice and Artificiality: the Various Versions of the Musical Gigi – Olaf Jubin

Part VI. Artistic Paris
16. ‘Artists in Art’s Capital City’: Americans in Paris on Screen and Stage –
Robert Gordon
17. Paris and the Curse of Chicago in Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George – Robert Lawson-Peebles
18. The Paradoxical ‘Frenchness’ of an Australian Musical: Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! – Pierre-Olivier Toulza

Conclusion