Published by Times Square Press, Paris, New York. Jane Avril Queen of the French Can Can. Aristocrat, marquise, French and Italian nobility, striper, dancer, author, writer, humanitarian, lovers' collector, queen of the French Can Can, friend of Oscar Wilde, Verlaine, Mallarme and the greatest poets of the era...and a French legend!"

Previously published: London: Fig Tree, [2014].

A romanticized biography of a famous French entertainer of the 1890's. Illustrated with Toulouse-Lautrec's posters.

Published by Times Square Press, Paris, New York.10th Edition. Revised and Enlarged. The Rise and Fall of Louise Weber La Goulue, Creator of the French Can Can. Published by Times Square Press, New York, Paris. Louise Weber lived the two lives of cabaret: The happy one of a rich and famous dancer on stage and the tragic one in her real life, when her last impoverished days ended her up in the streets of Paris, where she died totally forgotten, homeless and toothless.

Paris and the Musical explores how the famous city has been portrayed on stage and screen, investigates why the city has been of such importance to the genre and tracks how it has developed as a trope over the 20th and 21st centuries. From global hits An American in Paris, Gigi, Les Misérables, Moulin Rouge! and The Phantom of the Opera to the less widely-known Bless the Bride, Can-Can, Irma la Douce and Marguerite, the French capital is a central character in an astounding number of Broadway, Hollywood and West End musicals. This collection of 18 essays combines cultural studies, sociology, musicology, art and adaptation theory, and gender studies to examine the envisioning and dramatisation of Paris, and its depiction as a place of romance, hedonism and libertinism or as ‘the capital of the arts’. The interdisciplinary nature of this collection renders it as a fascinating resource for a wide range of courses; it will be especially valuable for students and scholars of Musical Theatre and those interested in Theatre and Film History more generally.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, London, June 16-September 18, 2011.

Cancan! covers the nineteenth-century influences on the dance's development, including women's fashions (particularly their underwear), sex and morality, and major political changes. Author David Price describes the colourful personalities responsible for the transformation of what was an amateur dance into a professional entertainment, and the theatres, music-halls and dancing gardens where they performed. The book gives a full account of the ballets, operettas and musicals by Offenbach, Lehar, Cole Porter and others featuring the cancan, as well as the artists and film-makers who depicted the dance in their work - artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Picasso, Rouault and the Second Empire illustrators; and film-makers such as Jean Renoir, John Huston and others. Included are comments from dancers and choreographers in France, Britain and the USA.