Irma la douce is a 1956 French musical with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort. The musical premiered in Paris in 1956, and was subsequently produced in the West End ...

Encores! breaks the mold with its first musical not written on American soil with Irma La Douce, the tale of a Parisian lady of the evening and the law student who falls in love with her. It has music ...

This 1950s musical fable about a Parisian prostitute with a heart of gold is supposed to be cheeky and frolicsome fun. But in a rare Encores! misfire, “Irma La Douce” is so leaden that it’s “Irma La ...

Directed by John Doyle, the cast also features Tony Award nominee Malcolm Gets (Macbeth, The Moliere Comedies), Sam Bolen, Ben Crawford (Big Fish, Shrek the Musical), Stephen DeRosa (The Nance, ...

Steve Rhyne has been a longtime member of 42nd Street Moon’s unofficial acting company. And, not surprisingly, he and founding artistic director Greg MacKellan have spent hours talking about “lost” ...

Irma is a girl with an international pedigree. She was born in Paris in 1956 in a small tuner with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort. By 1958, she had moved to ...

Spring for Music at Carnegie Hall — The Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall, which awards orchestras across North America for adventurous programming, begins tonight with a performance by of ...

On the plus side of the Irma ledger, there are scintillating performances by Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, a batch of jovial supporting portrayals, a striking physical production and a number of ...