Jason Robert Brown & Kathleen Marshall Team Up for My Paris at Goodspeed

Paris is so in this season! My Paris, a new musical featuring English lyrics and arrangements by Tony winner and Honeymoon in Vegas composer Jason Robert Brown, will premiere at the Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theatre this summer. The tuner features music lyrics by French composer Charles Aznavour and a book by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Alfred Uhry (who collaborated with Brown on Parade). Performances will begin at the famed Connecticut venue on July 23. Tony winner Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph.

The new musical will follow the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a nineteenth-century French painter who captured the spark of Montmarte, Le Can-Can and Le Moulin Rouge. Making appearances in the show are the characters that have been immortalized in his works. A version of Toulouse-Lautrec was portrayed in the 2001 film Moulin Rouge by John Leguizamo.

Paris seems to be all over the U.S. theater map this season; coming to Broadway this spring are the musicals Gigi and An American in Paris, with Can-Can having recently played New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse and N—The Queen of Paris reportedly set to hit the Great White Way in March 2016 following engagements in Toronto and Chicago.

My Paris is set to run through August 16. The 2015 season at the Norma Terris Theatre will also feature The Theory of Relativity, featuring a score by Neil Bartran and a book and direction by Brian Hill, from May 7 through 31. Indian Joe, featuring a score by Once Tony nominee Elizabeth A. Davis and a book by Davis and Christine Henry, will run from October 22 through November 15 under the direction of Kim Weild.