Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors

The multi award-winning composer made his name on the very French 1964 musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. So why would he want a Cornish company to adapt it for the stage?In the spring of 2008, the French composer Michel Legrand fell violently in love – with a theatre show. The winner of multiple Oscars and Grammys was in London supervising the opening of his new musical, Marguerite, and popped into the Haymarket cinema, where an unconventional production of Brief Encounter was being sta...

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