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Times and Appetites of Toulouse-Lautrec
Author(s):
Peggy Harmon
Polly Pen
Lyricist(s):
Michael Feingold
As the play begins, the young Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is already in rebellion against the constraints of his noble breeding and background, and determined to become an artist. Heading for Paris, he takes up residence in a bordello (much to the dismay of his family and friends) and attends art school where his radical ideas quickly bring him into conflict with his conservative teachers. But Henri's natural milieu is more the bistros and fleshpots of Montmartre than the staid ateliers of the Academy, and as his life becomes more drunken and dissolute his art flourishes producing the great posters and paintings which have come to symbolize the Paris of the "belle epoque." Punctuating the action of the play are authentic songs of the period, written by Aristide Bruant and others (with updated English lyrics) and sung (with piano and accordion accompaniment) by such famed entertainers of the time as Jane Avril, Yvette Guilbert, and La Goulue. But amid the swirl of gaiety and good times it is soon evident that the health of the naturally frail Toulouse-Lautrec is beginning to weaken. In and out of sanitoriums, and resisting the pleas of his family to come home and of his friends to stop drinking, Henri plunges doggedly ahead on his destructive course, pursuing a destiny which leads both to an early death and to immortality and a secure place both in the history of art and in the hearts of all who dream of the glittering Paris of the can-can and the Moulin Rouge.
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Musical | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 11 | | Male Characters: | 6 | | Female Characters: | 5 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $75 per performance
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Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
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