Dagmarr’s Dimanche: Paris When It Sizzles

Hersh Dagmarr returns to Crazy Coqs for a special edition of the Sunday series — and this time, it’s all French.

Paris, as Dagmarr remembers it, was eternal. The smoky cellars of Montmartre, the gaslights of Le Chat Noir and Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit, and the songs that made you feel the most romantic city in the world was invented purely for you. Why did he leave though? Why did he move to Berlin and never come back? What exactly happened to him somewhere between the last century and this one? Tonight, he intends to finally tell all… Or most of it.

Dagmarr’s Dimanche: Paris When It Sizzles is an evening of French song — Edith Piaf, Mistinguett, Gainsbourg, Juliette Nourredine, Bizet — and even some Frenchified numbers by The Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue. Mais bien sûr!

With the brilliant George Webster on piano.

Joined by the fabulous burlesque artist Belle de Beauvoir, and convinced he is preparing his long-awaited comeback, Dagmarr conjures a Paris frozen at the moment he left it, in tribute to a life he refuses to admit is long gone.

Stories, songs, sequins, romanticism, and a dramatic phantom in deep denial. What more could a hot August Sunday night ask for?