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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Billy Wilder was drawn to Alexandre Breffort's stage farce by the challenge of depicting a man who is jealous of himself. Stripping away the songs that had been added for the Broadway musicalisation, ...

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 ...