Souvenirs of Paris, 1950—sample playlist
The most widely-performed of Claudia’s cabaret theatre
programs for schools, Souvenirs of Paris, 1950 can be performed as a 40-minute program or expanded to its complete 75 minute version. For community performance, it can be performed in two-acts with intermission. Certain songs are core to the story and others can be replaced from a list of optional songs. Here’s one example of a “long show” of about 70 minutes
- That’s what makes Paris Paree
- Sammy Cahn & Vernon Duke
- French Song
- Don Tucker
- Le gamin de Paris
- Mick Micheyl & André Mares
- Grands boulevards
- Jacques Plante & Norbert Glanzberg
- La vie en rose
- Edith Piaf & Mack David
- Barbara
- Jacques Prévert & Joseph Kosma
- Paris Blues
- Duke Ellington
- Cabdriver’s Nightmare
(Le cauchemar du chauffeur de taxi)
- Jacques Prévert & Joseph Kosma
- La Seine
- Flavien Monod & Guy LaFarge
- Poor People of Paris
- Jack Lawrence & Marguerite Monnot
- Another Song about Paris
- David Frishberg
- Milord
- Georges Moustaki & Marguerite Monnot
- L’accordéoniste
- Michel Emer
- Les feuilles mortes/Autumn Leaves
- Jacques Prévert & Jos. Kosma; Johnny Mercer
- Les berceaux
- Gabriel Fauré & Sully Prudhomme
- You don’t know Paree
- Cole Porter
- Non, je ne regrette rien
- Michel Vaucaire & Chas. Dumont
- C’est si bon - as an encore!
- Henri Betti & André Hornez
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The high school theatre becomes a Parisian cabaret.
