Once upon a time, they made movie musicals out of Broadway shows. At some point, someone got the idea to reverse the process and a lot of great movie musicals were converted for the stage …in this case, twice. There was a stage version of the great movie musical An American in Paris in 2008 and another, different adaptation in 2016 — why not? The script for the movie was by Alan Jay Lerner and it was pretty sound. The pretty sound of the music consisted of tunes from the Gershwin catalog. Can't do better than that.
This video of the 2016 version was recorded in London in May 2017 and it stars Robert Fairchild, who won a Tony Award when the show played in New York for the thankless job of making people forget Gene Kelly. Also featured are Leanne Cope, Haydn Oakley, Zoë Rainey and a lot of really good dancers.
It's quite good but if you want to see it, you'd better watch it now. They only put it online for 48 hours and as I post this, about five of them have already passed. Do not delay.
