When the Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel had his American debut at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 4, 1965, his passionate lyrics and soulful delivery — by turns funny, poetic, heartbreaking, bitter, ...
The cast of "Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living in Paris" at the Gloucester Stage Company. (Gary Ng) Four singers inhabited a collection of French and Belgian characters — two middle-aged and ...
The musical revue Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris has returned to New York. The tuner, which was directed by Gordon Greenberg and features Robert Cuccioli, Natascia Diaz, Rodney ...
1 OH, MARY! to Launch U.S. Tour in Fall 2026 Of course, all four can Sing (capital 'S' intentional), each with their individual solos to shine and chorally in harmonious back-up. Koehler does wonders ...
But Scott RC Levy, the FAC's producing artistic director and director of performing arts, is comfortable mixing up his "Christmas Stories" and "Gypsies" with "Other Desert Cities" or "Jacques Brel" - ...
Brussels, Belgium – The memory of singer-songwriter Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in his native Belgium. The chanteur who thrilled crowds with songs including “If We Only Have Love” and ...
The problem with an entire evening of Brel is that it starts to feel like eating 14 such rich desserts in a row. Delicious? Absolutely. But eventually, it's just too much. This is the challenge master ...
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, ...
In January 1968, when the show Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris was first mounted, at the Village Gate in New York City, The New York Times’ critic Dan Sullivan was not overly ...
First off, Jacques Brel is not alive. The Belgian crooner died of a pulmonary embolism back in 1978, 10 years after this musical revue made its debut off-­Broadway. The revue came in the autumn of a ...