Word: ouest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dimension of this accomplishment is extraordinary because the French do not generally comprehend American musicals. The last one to open in translation there was Annie Get Your Gun (Annie du Far-Ouest) in 1950, and it flopped. Paris audiences expect the pressed sugars of operetta when they go to light musical theater, and they are never quite up to story lines and sociology in song. When the movie version of The King and I arrived in Paris, the theater was all but empty until the exhibitor cut all the music out of the picture; then audiences in sizable quantity began...