Not being from a big theatre city I'm so used to travelling to London to see theatre that it's refreshing to watch someone actually travelling outside of the country to watch a production. I'm now curious about that version of Cabaret, so if it lasts enough, who knows, I might pop in and watch. For now, I'm travelling once more to Madrid (which is becoming a bigger theatre city by the minute) to see for the fourth and final time the splendid version of Company by Antonio Banderas, which is closing in one month.
So now you know how a french feels when he comes to London to see some shows. Yous should have said (and noticed) that Lido2 was formerly the Lido, for decades, a famous french cabaret kinda like the Moulin Rouge with nude dancers and feathers. In fact, the tiaras and strass you showed in the entrance are from the previous Lido. The place was bought by Accor Hotel and transformed into a theatre home for musicals. Cabaret is their first show actually and the inside with tables and the center stage are relics from what was the Lido before. But it will now close for a year, take the time to be rebuilt and refreshed for new shows. Let's see how Lido2 will look at the reopening next december.
Looks great, I'll have to look into flights! Glad you enjoyed it. Reminds me of the first time I saw Cabaret - I was in Berlin for my 18th, went on my own on a whim, not fully sure what I was letting myself in for! It was proper Cabaret style seating in a large semi-permanent tent, no booked seats, performed mostly in German (obviously, I do speak enough to get by), and I ended up sat with some older local ladies who were very welcoming and fun. It was an absolutely amazing production with exactly the right atmosphere for the show. Emcee and the Cabaret girls were having a blast interacting with everyone all the way through. Very fond memories!
Your enthusiasm is contagious, you have found your calling. I am so glad you no longer teach math. I was in Cabaret on Broadway, this production looks magnifique!
I feel like the Eurostar is at least as fast to Paris, as you don't have to get to the train station so far ahead of time, and you end your journey at the Gare du Nord rather than having to take a train there from the airport. I had to laugh because I had the same experience going outside to only to be greeted by the Hotel Richmond lol. Guess I expected France to be more... French! Thanks for the theatergoing guide - would love to see some shows there!
Awesome video! I haven't been to live theater in a bit, so this was a great peek at how they're doing it in Paris! The MC's look in this production is really cool and striking :D
So funny to watch this video, as a Parisian who goes to London to see musicals all the time ^^ Liked this version of Cabaret, but I preferred the one currently playing in London, the experience was so amazing there !
nice to see you now traveling outside the UK to see other shows and musicals! How about Austria? We got so many productions right now and in the next months: Rebecca, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Funny Girl, Anastasia, Catch me if you can, Fun Home, Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, The Sound of Music, Cabaret, Wizard of Oz, ... 🤩
I know you said the train was slower- but bear in mind that you go from central london to central paris and you don't have to deal with arriving at the airport hours early, I bet you'd find the overall trip time on the train better :P
@@MickeyJoTheatre Fair- sucks that flying is often cheaper 🙁I hate flying 😂like the trip to the airport, the wait, the rush to the gate in time, busy boarding then the same in reverse at the other end, trains always feel much calmer (if the route isn't a nightmare at least) you get on, sit down and get off and the to and froms at either end are usually less painful
Thank you so much for sharing your experience at the show. Looking forward to the vlogs about the critique of CABARET and the rest of your time in Paris. I remember listening to an NPR story talking about musical theater in PARIS is a relatively recent arrival. Any thoughts?👍🙏😎
We have a monorail at our airport in Orlando as well. It's a fun feature & nice prelude to the magic. That theater is so glamorous I just looooove & honestly with that many disco balls how could you not?
this is so cool! the one international musical i ever saw was Chicago, in Poland, in Polish with subtitles on the sides of the theatre when i studied abroad a few years ago. it was aMAZGinG and such a cool experience. i wish i had seen some theatre while i was in Paris, too!
Travelled to Paris just before lockdown in 2020 to see Funny Girl (Christina Bianco) Did Eurostar instead of plane Was meant to travel again a couple of years ago for a band gig but it got cancelled & very complicated
If you understand French well enough, you should definitely pay a visit to the Mogador next time you pay Paris a visit. I saw their French productions of Sister Act and Chicago and the latter was as good as the Broadway and West End versions. It's a beautiful theater too and I hear their current production of The Lion King (le Roi Lion) is a must-see.!
When I was in Paris several years ago, I went to see a Moliere play at La Comedie Francaise. I discovered that my French was not quite as good as I'd thought it was (especially since I was tired at the end of a long day), but still really enjoyed it.
@@callalily3994 You did not pick the easiest place to test your French either as "La Comédie" is known for its rather classical plays with a very "polished" or "refined" Fench. Something like a musical where the movement and the music speak as much as the words might have been easier on you. That being said, La Comédie is one stunning-looking theater (or at least, it was in 2003 when I attended a play).
God bless the Eurostar, I'm so grateful for how easy they make it to travel through Europe if you don't have a car. They're expensive tho and next time I may ask for accomodations because I find the queue very overwhelming.
Bobo (not offensive, B-0 b-0 being a train thing) has been replaced by feminine engine Coco - modelled after famous designer and literal Nazi Coco Chanel. Didn't used to be an offensive character until a couple years ago! The character is meant to be the "underwater train" - presumably the Eurostar, which isn't actually a French train at all!
Very often flights are a lot cheaper (less convenient though and you have to consider the trip to the airport as sometimes it costs more than the flight itself lol)
Eurostar is much faster and convenient to Paris when you factor in airport faff, endless waiting, transport too and from airport, especially Charles de Gaulle into Paris.
Depends how close you live to the airport! I've done about 10 Eurostar trips in the last year and on a bad day it can be just as much faff to get through their check in as at an airport.
Me, having just travelled to London this summer to see Cabaret and having seen Cabaret in Amsterdam not two months ago: "... Time to go to Paris to see Cabaret?"
@@MickeyJoTheatre Lowkey my dream to stage Cabaret in Berlin, preferably either in the modern Kit Kat Klub or in the building that used to be the Eldorado. Scared of accidentally triggering a third world war tho, heaven knows Nazis are already on the rise far too quickly.
Thanks for this video! So happy to see British friends visiting our beautiful city! By the way, I make videos like you in French about musical theatre if some people are interrested ;)
Amazed they let you film so much. Of course when you see the show in London they always insist you put a sticker over the camera lens on your phone, so that you can't take any photos of the insides.
@@nicoletrudell2065 You could, but it they catch you without the sticker on your phone they will throw you out immediately no question. They take this very seriously. If you peel the sticker off and then put your phone in your purse it shouldn't be a problem tho, it's not like they'll ask to see your phone specifically.
@@nicoletrudell2065 Yeah, so they probably did not see or bother. You got lucky! Probably would have been a different story if you had used the camera tho
@@MickeyJoTheatre That's OK! It's a nerdy pun on different types of wheel arrangements on railway locomotives. Fun train fact, that's also why there's a BoCo in the Thomas the Tank Engine series. Anyway, I enjoyed the video and it looks like you had a great time!
Being from Paris, the most surprising is filming that much Gare du Nord and not having the camera stolen.
I was gripping it so tight I injured a small muscle in my hand 🙃
🤣🤣🤣 having lived in Paris
i am a French musical theater fan so i was amazed to see the title of this video! i saw Cabaret at the Lido and loved it.
Not being from a big theatre city I'm so used to travelling to London to see theatre that it's refreshing to watch someone actually travelling outside of the country to watch a production. I'm now curious about that version of Cabaret, so if it lasts enough, who knows, I might pop in and watch.
For now, I'm travelling once more to Madrid (which is becoming a bigger theatre city by the minute) to see for the fourth and final time the splendid version of Company by Antonio Banderas, which is closing in one month.
So now you know how a french feels when he comes to London to see some shows.
Yous should have said (and noticed) that Lido2 was formerly the Lido, for decades, a famous french cabaret kinda like the Moulin Rouge with nude dancers and feathers. In fact, the tiaras and strass you showed in the entrance are from the previous Lido.
The place was bought by Accor Hotel and transformed into a theatre home for musicals. Cabaret is their first show actually and the inside with tables and the center stage are relics from what was the Lido before. But it will now close for a year, take the time to be rebuilt and refreshed for new shows. Let's see how Lido2 will look at the reopening next december.
Looks great, I'll have to look into flights! Glad you enjoyed it.
Reminds me of the first time I saw Cabaret - I was in Berlin for my 18th, went on my own on a whim, not fully sure what I was letting myself in for! It was proper Cabaret style seating in a large semi-permanent tent, no booked seats, performed mostly in German (obviously, I do speak enough to get by), and I ended up sat with some older local ladies who were very welcoming and fun. It was an absolutely amazing production with exactly the right atmosphere for the show. Emcee and the Cabaret girls were having a blast interacting with everyone all the way through. Very fond memories!
Your enthusiasm is contagious, you have found your calling. I am so glad you no longer teach math. I was in Cabaret on Broadway, this production looks magnifique!
A jam-packed and incredible weekend! 😁😁😁
I feel like the Eurostar is at least as fast to Paris, as you don't have to get to the train station so far ahead of time, and you end your journey at the Gare du Nord rather than having to take a train there from the airport. I had to laugh because I had the same experience going outside to only to be greeted by the Hotel Richmond lol. Guess I expected France to be more... French! Thanks for the theatergoing guide - would love to see some shows there!
The passport personnel were a problem in September.
@@michaeladkins6 Weird we sailed through
Awesome video! I haven't been to live theater in a bit, so this was a great peek at how they're doing it in Paris! The MC's look in this production is really cool and striking :D
So funny to watch this video, as a Parisian who goes to London to see musicals all the time ^^ Liked this version of Cabaret, but I preferred the one currently playing in London, the experience was so amazing there !
Oh my gosh, HELLO from Perth, Western Australia Mickey J!
nice to see you now traveling outside the UK to see other shows and musicals! How about Austria? We got so many productions right now and in the next months: Rebecca, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Funny Girl, Anastasia, Catch me if you can, Fun Home, Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, The Sound of Music, Cabaret, Wizard of Oz, ... 🤩
Let’s just say - it’s been a big talking point between the three of us!
@@AeronJames nice 💪 if you need some help with the organization, let me know 👍
I know you said the train was slower- but bear in mind that you go from central london to central paris and you don't have to deal with arriving at the airport hours early, I bet you'd find the overall trip time on the train better :P
We took the train back and usually do the eurostar to go to Disneyland Paris, on this occasion it was easier and cheaper to fly there!
@@MickeyJoTheatre Fair- sucks that flying is often cheaper 🙁I hate flying 😂like the trip to the airport, the wait, the rush to the gate in time, busy boarding then the same in reverse at the other end, trains always feel much calmer (if the route isn't a nightmare at least) you get on, sit down and get off and the to and froms at either end are usually less painful
Thank you so much for sharing your experience at the show. Looking forward to the vlogs about the critique of CABARET and the rest of your time in Paris. I remember listening to an NPR story talking about musical theater in PARIS is a relatively recent arrival. Any thoughts?👍🙏😎
We have a monorail at our airport in Orlando as well. It's a fun feature & nice prelude to the magic. That theater is so glamorous I just looooove & honestly with that many disco balls how could you not?
We recently flew from Bristol to Paris- so cheap and really quick. Would love to do it again soon and this has encouraged me to do so!
I loved this video. What a fun adventure.
Last year i made a trip to London for CINDERELLA my first west end show
this is so cool! the one international musical i ever saw was Chicago, in Poland, in Polish with subtitles on the sides of the theatre when i studied abroad a few years ago. it was aMAZGinG and such a cool experience. i wish i had seen some theatre while i was in Paris, too!
Did you go and see the musical Starmania? I went a few weeks back and it was honestly incredible!
i'm intrigued by what songs they used for this production. Did they include Why Should I wake Up?
Thanks for bringing us along! From my experience in Paris, a little bit of French is just enough to piss them off!
Travelled to Paris just before lockdown in 2020 to see Funny Girl (Christina Bianco)
Did Eurostar instead of plane
Was meant to travel again a couple of years ago for a band gig but it got cancelled & very complicated
I can’t believe I was the first to see this posting! 👍🙏😎😍
Recently became a member so got a lot of content to catch up on
If you understand French well enough, you should definitely pay a visit to the Mogador next time you pay Paris a visit. I saw their French productions of Sister Act and Chicago and the latter was as good as the Broadway and West End versions. It's a beautiful theater too and I hear their current production of The Lion King (le Roi Lion) is a must-see.!
When I was in Paris several years ago, I went to see a Moliere play at La Comedie Francaise. I discovered that my French was not quite as good as I'd thought it was (especially since I was tired at the end of a long day), but still really enjoyed it.
@@callalily3994 You did not pick the easiest place to test your French either as "La Comédie" is known for its rather classical plays with a very "polished" or "refined" Fench. Something like a musical where the movement and the music speak as much as the words might have been easier on you. That being said, La Comédie is one stunning-looking theater (or at least, it was in 2003 when I attended a play).
You should have said that you were going to Paris ! I would have guided you both through the city !
curious - why plane and not train to Paris? thought train was in fact faster? the chunnel and 150 plus mph and all that.
God bless the Eurostar, I'm so grateful for how easy they make it to travel through Europe if you don't have a car. They're expensive tho and next time I may ask for accomodations because I find the queue very overwhelming.
The French train in Starlight was named Bobo; at least it was in the Las Vegas Production that I was in. 😊
Bobo (not offensive, B-0 b-0 being a train thing) has been replaced by feminine engine Coco - modelled after famous designer and literal Nazi Coco Chanel. Didn't used to be an offensive character until a couple years ago! The character is meant to be the "underwater train" - presumably the Eurostar, which isn't actually a French train at all!
Bobo is the French train in Starlight. Speaking of, a trip to Germany to see it?
Why didn’t you take the Eurostar?
Very often flights are a lot cheaper (less convenient though and you have to consider the trip to the airport as sometimes it costs more than the flight itself lol)
Flixbus is great too but you need Time to do the 10h trip to paris
@@samuelblachon95130 yeah! Done that twice from Victoria Coach Station overnight. Slept through the way and woke up in Paris.
Eurostar is much faster and convenient to Paris when you factor in airport faff, endless waiting, transport too and from airport, especially Charles de Gaulle into Paris.
Depends how close you live to the airport! I've done about 10 Eurostar trips in the last year and on a bad day it can be just as much faff to get through their check in as at an airport.
With Nord you don’t pronounce the D - but you are all adorable
Isn’t ‘rue’ street, rather than road?
Me, having just travelled to London this summer to see Cabaret and having seen Cabaret in Amsterdam not two months ago: "... Time to go to Paris to see Cabaret?"
See Cabaret in every European country challenge
@@MickeyJoTheatre Lowkey my dream to stage Cabaret in Berlin, preferably either in the modern Kit Kat Klub or in the building that used to be the Eldorado. Scared of accidentally triggering a third world war tho, heaven knows Nazis are already on the rise far too quickly.
I hope you will see the New cast of cabaret
I hope so too!
Thanks for this video! So happy to see British friends visiting our beautiful city!
By the way, I make videos like you in French about musical theatre if some people are interrested ;)
Do you have TSA so you don’t have to take off your shoes. Good you got there early.
TSA is a US government program. Since they aren’t Americans … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oooh a great dry run for a broadway trip, right?😅
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@@MickeyJoTheatre 🤩🍿
I’m fairly sure in the original Viennese production in the late 1960s/early 1970s the Emcee was also played by a stout bald woman. Is true, ja?
You mean every time you go to Paris Disney you don’t make time for theater?
He’s Mickey Joe awesome and he wants you to have a Stacey day and subscribe! Lol
Amazed they let you film so much. Of course when you see the show in London they always insist you put a sticker over the camera lens on your phone, so that you can't take any photos of the insides.
I always find that funny because you can just peel off the sticker, which I immediately do to save the sticker lol
@@nicoletrudell2065 You could, but it they catch you without the sticker on your phone they will throw you out immediately no question. They take this very seriously. If you peel the sticker off and then put your phone in your purse it shouldn't be a problem tho, it's not like they'll ask to see your phone specifically.
@@CindersSpot lol they never bothered me when I took it off but not did I attempt to use my camera
@@nicoletrudell2065 Yeah, so they probably did not see or bother. You got lucky! Probably would have been a different story if you had used the camera tho
@@CindersSpot Rightfully so!
The French train in Starlight Express is Bobo
Thank you!
@@MickeyJoTheatre That's OK! It's a nerdy pun on different types of wheel arrangements on railway locomotives. Fun train fact, that's also why there's a BoCo in the Thomas the Tank Engine series.
Anyway, I enjoyed the video and it looks like you had a great time!
You meant 5th Ave in NYC
salut, procotent, man. ✨
I hate our train compared to the London trains
3 hours of sleep Dan Mickey don’t work yourself to hard dude.