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Gigi

Music by Frederick Loewe
Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Book by Alan Jay Lerner

Adapted from a story by Colette

1958 Synopsis: A young French girl raised to be a courtesan who opts instead to marry.

Song List

Thank Heaven For Little Girls I Remember It Well Gigi I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore Paris Is Paris Again The Contract The Night They Invented Champagne The Earth and Other Minor Things Overture It's A Bore She Is Not Thinking Of Me In This Wide, Wide World Finale Thank Heaven For Little Girls (Reprise)

Info This Broadway musical hit started as a novel by the famous French author Colette, was made by Anita Loos into a non-musical stage production in 1951 and an Oscar-winning musical film in 1958. It was adapted for a Broadway Musical in 1973. The Film version won 9 Academy Awards.

Original Movie Cast Included: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans, John Abbott & Monique Van Vooren