There was once a sweetly pensive French popsy named Irma-la-Douce, who plied her trade on the streets of Montmartre but reserved her true love for a handsome young pimp named Nestor-le-Fripé. Because ...

Encores! breaks the mold with its first musical not written on American soil with Irma La Douce, the tale of a Parisian lady of the evening and the law student who falls in love with her. It has music ...

Irma is a girl with an international pedigree. She was born in Paris in 1956 in a small tuner with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort. By 1958, she had moved to ...

This 1950s musical fable about a Parisian prostitute with a heart of gold is supposed to be cheeky and frolicsome fun. But in a rare Encores! misfire, “Irma La Douce” is so leaden that it’s “Irma La ...

Irma La Douce is small scale and French, piquant and jaunty—a musical in which everything turns on sex and money and promptly turns into sentiment and make-believe. A prostitute in a dregsy quarter of ...

Directed by John Doyle, the cast also features Tony Award nominee Malcolm Gets (Macbeth, The Moliere Comedies), Sam Bolen, Ben Crawford (Big Fish, Shrek the Musical), Stephen DeRosa (The Nance, ...

Spring for Music at Carnegie Hall — The Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall, which awards orchestras across North America for adventurous programming, begins tonight with a performance by of ...

On the plus side of the Irma ledger, there are scintillating performances by Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, a batch of jovial supporting portrayals, a striking physical production and a number of ...