Lane Bradbury may have been born and raised as a Southern Belle in Georgia, and performed on Broadway, in films, and on television, but there’s a Parisian chanteuse in her soul. Now 81, but with the energy of a performer half her age, the original “Dainty June” in the 1959 Broadway production of Gypsy will present a cabaret program of classic French compositions in her show, MON HISTOIRE EN CHANSONS FRANCAISES (My Story in French Songs) at Pangea (178 2nd Ave, between 11th and 12th Streets, NYC). With her long time Musical Director Joe Goodrich on piano, the vivacious Ms. Bradbury will deliver-in French-songs written by Jacquel Brel, Edith Piaf, Marguerite Monnot, Joe Dassin, Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand, and Claude-Michel Sahönberg & Alain Boudlit, the composers of Les Misérables, among others.

MON HISTOIRE EN CHANSONS FRANCAISES is certainly a departure from Ms. Bradbury’s last cabaret offering, Let Me Entertain You, Again, in which she regaled audiences about her early life, her loves, and her experiences in the original cast of the iconic musical Gypsy. Why a show of songs in French? “The summer that I turned 13, my ballet teacher back in Georgia took 12 students to New York to study ballet,” Ms. Bradbury recalls. “We’d be in class all day, but at night we’d go to the theater and that’s when I saw Gwen Verdon in Can-Can. Gwen just jumped off the stage and into my life. Her performance opened up my world and my love for everything French. Later on, my mother insisted that our family descended from the 8th-century emperor Charlemagne. Maybe that’s why I have always been so filled up with the French Passion.”

Lane Bradbury was born and raised near Atlanta, Georgia, began to study ballet at age five and joined the Atlanta Ballet at age 12. She moved to NYC to pursue a dancing career and was accepted at the Actor’s Studio as the youngest ever member. She made her Broadway debut in 1958 in J.B. after director Elia Kazan discovered her at the Actor’s Studio, and she followed that the next year appearing in Gypsy. In 1961, she was cast in The Night of the Iguana, originating respectively the roles of June & Charlotte Goodall.

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