The project of Corrado Abbati, which aim, like My Fair Lady and La principessa Sissi in the past, is to reinterpret a few American musicals with the canons of the European operetta, is back for the next season with a success, Gigì, started in 1958 with the Vincente Minnelli awards-winning film based on the novel by Colette.
The plot is twisted and surprising as usual, and there is a hoped-for happy ending with the wedding and the “they lived happily ever after”: Paris, early ‘900, Gigì, a cheerful and carefree girl, meets Gaston, a young and bored pleasure-seeker...