FROM STAGE TO SCREEN … CAN-CAN

 

 

Can-Can (1953).

Music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Abe Burrows.

SONGS: “C’est Magnifiquc,” “I Am in Love,” “Allez-vous-en,” “Never Give Anything Away,” “Maidens Typical of France,” “It’s All Right with Me,” “I Love Paris,” “Come Along with Me,” “Montniart’.”

NEW YORK: May 7, 1953

SHUBERT THEATRE; 892 performances.

Presented by Cy Feuer & Ernest Martin; directed by Abe Burrows;

Choreographed by Michael Kidd;

Settings & lighting, Jo Mielziner;

Costumes, Motley;

Music Director, Milton Rosenstock;

Orchestrations, Philip J. Lang.

LONDON: Oct. 14, 1954

COLISEUM; 394 performances.

After Kiss Me, Kate, Can-Can was Cole Porter’s most successful Broadway musical. To devise the story, librettist Burrows went to Paris, where he researched records of the police and Chamber of Deputies, and studied the arguments and trials of the late 1800s. The tale was concerned with the introduction of the scandalous dance known as the can-can, and the way Pastiche, owner of the Bal du Paradis, breaks down the resistance of the stern judge Aristide Forestier, who has been sent to investigate. Eventually the judge himself defends Pastiche and her can-can dancers and wins acquittal. Though Lilo was the star of the musical, it was Gwen Verdon, in her first major Broadway role, who attracted the most notice, especially with her “Garden of Eden” ballet and Apache dance.

20th Century-Fox, 1960, Color, 131 minutes

Producer: Jack Cummings
Associate Producer: Saul Chaplin
Directed by: Walter Lang
Assistant Director: Joseph E. Rickards
Screenplay by: Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer
Songs by: Cole Porter
Music Arranged and Conducted by: Nelson Riddle
Dances Staged by: Hermes Pan
Set Decorations: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
Costumes Designed by: Irene Sharaff
Produced in TODD-AO, Color by Deluxe

Cast:
Frank Sinatra (Francois Durnais),
Shirley MacLaine (Simone Pistache),
Maurice Chevalier (Paul Barrière),
Louis Jourdan (Philipe Forrestier),
Juliet Prowse (Claudine)

SOUNDTRACK

1 Overture
2 Titles / Montmartre
3 Maidens Typical of France
4 C'est Magnifique
5 The Show
6 C'est Magnifique
7 Live and Let Live
8 You Do Something to Me
9 Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
10 It's All Right with Me
11 Entracte
12 Live and Let Live
13 Come Along with Me
14 Just One of Those Things
15 Adam and Eve
16 It's All Right with Me
17 Can Can
18 I Love Paris / Exit Music