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AuthorBailey, Ronald
PositionBriefly Noted - Revival of "Gigi" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. - Brief article

Marriage is not the only option for men of means and beautiful women in Belle Epoque France. The delightful revival of the Lerner and Loewe musical Gigi, about sex, money, jewelry, love, and ironclad contracts, is now on Broadway after a successful run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) plays Gigi with impish glee as a high-spirited teenage girl being groomed, in the tradition of her family, to become a high-class courtesan. Young Parisian bon vivant Gaston Lachaille falls in love and seeks to make her his mistress.

Much of the drama revolves around the...

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