Paris fears for fate of theatre that added chic to pop culture
Jean-Luc Choplin, the Châtelet's director, gave a high-art gloss to popular Broadway showsWhen Jean-Luc Choplin took over more than a decade ago as director general of Paris's Théatre du Châtelet " one of the city's temples to high culture " heckling from the French press was deafening.Some critics, surprised and outraged, nicknamed him Mickey " after the cartoon mouse " because he once worked for Disney. Le M…