Paris (AFP) – Paris's trailblazing drag cabaret Chez Michou on Monday announced its closure for financial reasons, bringing an end to a risque fixture of the French capital's nightlife that inspired a ...

A Parisian drag cabaret club that has hosted singers such as Liza Minnelli and Serge Gainsbourg is closing its doors due to financial struggles. Chez Michou, which lies in the hilltop neighborhood of ...

A celebrated French drag cabaret has given its final performance, bringing an end to the Parisian fixture that inspired a Hollywood film. Chez Michou said on social media that Sunday's performance ...

For more than half a century, the most flamboyant figure in Paris’s liveliest district was a bouffant-haired man with a single name, Michou. Habitually dressed in blue — often with a blue satin jacket ...

Michou, center, at his cabaret in Montmartre. “I hope you’re enjoying your dinner,” he told the crowd. “If the meat is good, it’s because I slept with the butcher!”Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The ...

Since 1956, his jewel box of a club in storied Montmartre has drawn a host of luminaries, turning the proprietor himself into one. By Liz Alderman Michou, a flamboyant fixture of the Parisian ...

After 68 years in the burlesque business, Sunday's performance will be the last, the managers of the cabaret Chez Michou wrote on Facebook last week. A liquidator will be appointed from 16 July 2024, ...