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...compact dynamo who hums with confidence, Los Angeles-born Brown admits to being incurably stagestruck. At age nine, he attended a performance by French Singer Edith Piaf. He can still feel her impact: "She suffered more than anyone could." Too self-conscious to be an actor, he says: "It used to worry me. Now I think it is my strongest asset because I have had to develop a method of communication that does not include illustration." He leaves actors alone, but "they can show me anything." He never comments on a character, instead draws out a motivation from the actor...
What a life Singer Edith Piaf had! Born in the gutter, lived awhile in a cousin's whorehouse, discovered on a street corner. What a role to play! Brigitte Ariel, 19, a little-known French actress who has played mainly with provincial companies, was chosen for the film version of the bestselling biography by Simone Berteaut, the "Little Sparrow's" half sister. Brigitte, who was nine when Piaf died in 1963, has little in common with the megaphone-voiced singer except her height (4 ft. 11 in.). The songs will be dubbed in. About the part, Brigitte says...
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS (1,447). Without being present, Brel dominates this show. His music and personality are in the tradition of Piaf, Aznavour and Sinatra. His songs reach your ear, but his life reaches your heart. The quartet of performers invariably seem to be inspired by Brel, and some people have seen this show more than 30 times. A crystalline and incandescent evening...
...like two Red Sox players in an off-season gig, or, worse yet, the male models in a Sears Roebuck catalogue. Annette Pirrone, in the smaller female role, came across as merely pleasant. As a result, all three were easily eclipsed by Denise Le Brun. A protege of Edith Piaf (the program quotes Piaf as saying, "She's the only one who could replace me without being ridiculous."), Le Brun looks like a dumpy, dumped-on Dietrich. In voice and accent she is often quite heart-wrenching, and although her biggest numbers occasionally shade off into the histrionic, she generally...
...people and the dirty language, I am getting a headache!"). Karen is studying with Speech Coach Dorothy Sarnoff to get rid of her accent. "I'm nadda girl from The Bronx anymore," she says. While their futures promise neither the disasters nor the distinction of a Garland or Piaf, Wyman and Budd are mostly fighting the comparison with Streisand. Of course, as Julie says, "that's better than being compared with, say, Sadie Glick...