Paris and the Musical

<p><em>Paris and the Musical</em> explores how the famous city has been portrayed on stage and screen investigates why the city has been of such importance to the genre and tracks how it has developed as a trope over the 20th and 21st centuries.</p><p>From global hits <i>An American in Paris</i> <i>Gigi</i> <i>Les Misérables</i> <i>Moulin Rouge! </i>and <i>The Phantom of the Opera </i>to the less widely-known <i>Bless the Bride</i> <i>Can-Can</i> <i>Irma la Douce </i>and <i>Marguerite</i> the French capital is a central character in an astounding number of Broadway Hollywood and West End musicals. This collection of 18 essays combines cultural studies sociology musicology art and adaptation theory and gender studies to examine the envisioning and dramatisation of Paris and its depiction as a place of romance hedonism and libertinism or as ‘the capital of the arts’.</p><p>The interdisciplinary nature of this collection renders it as a fascinating resource for a wide range of courses; it will be especially valuable for students and scholars of Musical Theatre and those interested in Theatre and Film History more generally.</p>