La troupe du roi
Contributors: Molière, 1622-1673; La Grange-Chancel, Joseph de, 1677-1758; Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711; Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687; Charpentier, Antoine; Coe, Richard L. (Richard Livingstone), 1914-1995, annotator; Comédie-Française; Washington Performing Arts Society; Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1970
Language: eng
Other titles: Comedie francaise
Description: Washington Performing Arts Society, Todd Duncan, president, Patrick Hayes, managing director, and S. Hurok, presents by arrangement with the French government Comedie Francaise, "La Troupe du Roi," homage to Moliere, an evocation produced by Paul-Emile Deiber, performed by the entire company of the Comedie Francaise now in the United States, texts by Moliere, La Grange and Boileau, musical accompaniment taken from Jean-Baptiste Lully and Antoine Charpentier. Scenes from: Les Precieuses Ridicules, L'Ecole des Femmes, L'Impromptu de Versailles, Tartuffe, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Les Fouberies de Scapin, L'Avare.
Notes: Lisner Auditorium, G.W.U., Thursday and Friday, January 29-30, 1970.

Title devised by Library staff.

"Washington Performing Arts Society. Book 8. 1969-1970 season"--Cover.

Cast: George Descrieres, Jean Piat, Simon Eine, Marcel Tristani, Genevieve Casile, Derengere Dautun, Catherine Hiegel, Denise Gence, Francoise Seigner, Paul Roussillon, Catherine Samie, Jacques Eyser, Jacques Toja, Robert Hirsch, Georges Chamarat, Jacques Charon, Jacques Buron, Jean-Louis Jemma.

LC copy has notations by Coe. Shelved under: Troupe du roi.

With: Amphitryon / Moliere -- Les femmes savantes / Moliere -- Marilyn Horne -- Regine Crespin -- Charles Aznavour -- Ensembles musical de Buenos Aires. Issued together.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).