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 ...

Catherine Jacquart, manager of the 'Chez Michou' cabaret and niece of late French director 'Michou', famed for his somewhat risque shows in Paris' famous Montmartre cabaret, poses in 2020. (Photo by ...

Death of flamboyant owner Michel Catty spelled the end for the Montmartre institution that’s entertained audiences from across the world for more than half-a-century. Clients at the Montmartre ...

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 ...

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MICHOU, the colourful, outrageous and off-beat trendsetter of Paris night life, has died aged 88. He was a trailblazer who established drag cabaret in France and owned one of the most flamboyant (and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A trailblazer who established drag cabaret in France, Michou died in a Paris hospital, Francois Deblaye, a spokesman for his Chez Michou theatre, told AFP. Michou, whose real name was Michel Catty, ...

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, ...