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JACQUES BREL, in a production got together by the Charles Street Playhouse, managed to live through 12 weeks of Boston summer, admittedly no easy task. So when it came time for the Charles to open its regular season, rather than force the successful Jacques to walk the streets, the Somerset...
Jacques Brel, a long-running hit off-Broadway, is a musical review, on the surface all sophistication and brightness, under its skin just a touch of pathos. Jacques Brel-yeah, no kidding, they're really not fooling-is a 40-year-old Franco-Belgian troubadour. He wrote the songs on...
Jacques Brel opens with a number called "Marathon" that traces five decades of modern European history and decides man is trapped on an ever-accelerating, never-ending treadmill; in a later song, "Carousel," the same theme is repeated. Of course, Burt Bacharach had Dionne Warwick say, the same thing in...
IT IS OF 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...
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.