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Can-Can is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and a book by Abe Burrows.The story concerns the showgirls of the Montmartre dance halls during the 1890s.. The original Broadway production ran for over two years beginning in 1953, and the 1954 West End production was also a success.
Outside France, the can-can achieved popularity in music halls, where it was danced by groups of women in choreographed routines. This style was imported back into France in the 1920s for the benefit of tourists, [ citation needed ] and the "French Cancan" was born—a highly choreographed routine lasting ten minutes or more, with the ...
Can-Can is a 1960 American musical film made by Suffolk-Cummings productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang , produced by Jack Cummings and Saul Chaplin . The screenplay was written by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer , loosely based on the musical play by Abe Burrows .
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Nelson Riddle arranged and conducted the Cole Porter music for the 1960 motion picture Can-Can. After completing work on the film, he arranged a dozen Porter melodies as dance music. The resulting album was released in the spring of 1960, ahead of Capitol's release of the soundtrack album. [1]
"It's All Right with Me" is a popular song written by Cole Porter, for his 1953 musical Can-Can, where it was introduced by Peter Cookson as the character Judge Aristide Forestier. [ 1 ] The song is also used in the Cole Porter musical High Society .
The can-can is a dance. Can-Can may also refer to: Can Can (band), American punk rock band; Can-Can, a 1953 musical Can-Can, based on the musical; Can Can, fragrance designed by Paris Hilton "Galop Infernal", a movement of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld commonly associated with the dance
For songs of the film, see Category:Songs from Can-Can (film). Note: This category page should be empty. All entries should be recategorized under one of the above categories or an appropriate subcategory.