PARIS CAN CAN comes directly from Paris where a hundred years of Music Hall tradition have given birth to this spectacular new joie de vivre that has been fashioned by many of the same production and design talents that have created the world renowned shows at the music halls of Paris (Lido, Moulin Rouge, Follies Bergere, etc) under the supervision of Mr. Patrice Marques. The eleborate costumes and scenery designed by Randal Wright recreate the colorful world of Toulouse-Lautrac, the setting for this lavish musical adventure. Singers and Music Hall artistes who have toured the continent complete the French valentine.

Played out against the strains of music by Offenbach as well as music especially created for this event, the acclaimed French Can Can dancers perform the breathless traditional choreography and the dazzling new dances of these award-winning choreographers.

In partnership with the creative minds of Paris's most prestigious showmen, the Can Can Worldwide Group presents this special evening that weaves together the magic of the French Music Halls with a uniquely contemporary point of view.

It is an evening that only Paris could remember and only Paris could recreate. It is the romance and the brilliance of a night in the city where the Can-Can was born. It is PARIS CAN CAN, the high stepping extravaganza with the French accent!

The big Paris Dance-halls managers did not take their time exploiting its popularity, and around 1865, "Can Can" became a new form of show.

Later, the great painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, customer of the "Moulin Rouge" Paris Music-hall, immortalized "Can Can" by his drawings and portraits of the stars of this theatre. "La Goulue" (the greedy one), the male-dancer "Valentin", nicknamed "Le Desosse" (the boned one), and the "Ouadrille Naturaliste", formed by Jane Avril, Nini "Patte en l'Air" (with all fours upset). "La Môme Fromage" (the cheese-kid) and "Grille d'Egout" (sewer-grating) ...

"Can Can" is an excitement, speed and colors dance, it is a fantastic impulse of joy, cheerfulness, and spreading extravagance which, everywhere in the world, arouses the audience enthusiasm.

As in the passed century, "Can Can" tradition is entering into the third "millennium" with the same ardor, exuberance and youthfulness.