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...Wonderland has managed to exist outside of institutions like the Charles Playhouse, and Off Broadway, although it resides in these places from time to time. Perhaps an enterprise such as the Charles or the theaters around the Boston Common can no longer support any valuable theater. Even Jacques Brel has gone to a hotel cabarer, so far with little success. The experience of recent events shows that the most exciting theater occurs within non-profit institutions, where financial backing does not star, but rather the audience, actors and directors. Our perception and intense enjoyment are furthered, so that we remember...

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Theatre Losing the Charles | 11/3/1970 | See Source »

Metcalf admitted that if it had not been for the unexpected success of the Playhouse's current production of "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris," the Playhouse would not have been able to open at all this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles Playhouse Closed Because of $200,000 Debt | 10/30/1970 | See Source »

...directors said that there is little chance the theatre will reopen this season. "Despite Brel's expected capacity to earn its way, the prospects for the Warrenton Street playhouse are bleak," they said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles Playhouse Closed Because of $200,000 Debt | 10/30/1970 | See Source »

...some interest, however, that in France Brel appeals to a younger, more student-oriented age group. The very fact that Jacques Brel played all summer despite the Charles' solid price range means his American audience is quite different. It's quite possible that his fatalism-in a song called "The Bulls," for example, he consoles those animals that weekly face two-bit matadors with the thought that men treat each other equally wretchedly, citing Waterloo, Verdun, Stalingrad, Hiroshima and Saigon as proof-strikes a richer chord in the European mind. It's also possible that once you know the whole...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Cabarets Jacques Brel Is Alive, And, Well, He's Living in a Ballroom At the Somerset Hotel | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

Since I'm not at all against poetry and chanteurs getting together, I hope so. I would only suggest that if such is the case, Jacques Brel write a very sad, but, please, also angry, song about what America has done to Jacques Brel...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Cabarets Jacques Brel Is Alive, And, Well, He's Living in a Ballroom At the Somerset Hotel | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

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