Show's over for famed cabaret show at France's Lido

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It’s the end of an era for the famed Lido cabaret on Paris’ Champs-Elysees.

Amid financial troubles and changing times, the venue’s new corporate owner is ditching most of the Lido’s staff and its high-kicking, high-glamour dance shows — which date back decades and inspired copycats from Las Vegas to Beirut — in favor of more modest musical revues.

“The Lido is the temple of the Parisian cabaret revue in its most elegant, prestigious, and entertaining aspects. An enchanting interlude in a magic world unique in French spectacles." “The Lido will keep its name, but the cabaret will lose its soul. Because of the end of the revue and the layoff of 85% of staff, The Lido will become a basic venue that people rent,” said Franck Lafitte, from the National Union of Artistic Activities.

But while the Moulin Rouge benefited from a revival of interest after Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie, the Lido has struggled with a drop in attendance and economic troubles aggravated by the COVID-19 crisis. To some, the shows seem increasingly outdated. In 2015, the Lido tried to reinvent itself with a new revue by a Cirque du Soleil director who sought to empower the dancers and show that “women are not objects,” but it wasn’t as successful as hoped.

 

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