From Broadway to France's boulevards: how Paris fell in love with musicals
Director Jean-Luc Choplin explains how he led an English-language musical comedy revolution when he took the reins at Paris's Châtelet theatreAs a young Frenchman visiting New York in the 1970s, Jean-Luc Choplin sat through the Broadway revival of the Leonard Bernstein comedic operetta Candide and was "utterly enchanted".When the curtains fell he found himself walking the streets of New York singing numbers from t…