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Gaite Parisienne

Music by: Jacques Offenbach
Staged by: Susan Trevino
Costumes by: Mike Gonzales
Lighting by: Kip Marsh

Premiering in 1938, with choreography by Leonide Massine, Gaite Parisenne was one of the most popular ballets in the repertory of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

The story, set in a fashionable Parisian cafe of the Second Empire Epoch, is a lighthearted affair involving flirtation, jealousy and romantic love among the patrons of Parisian cafe society. 

The principals in the first performance in New York included Alexandra Danilova, in perhaps her most celebrated role as the Glove Seller, Eugenie Delarova as the Flower Girl, Jeannette Lauret as La Lionne, Leonide Massine as the Peruvian, Frederic Franklin as the Baron, and Igor Youskevitch as the Officer.