Day: December 30, 2010
A Preview of My Fair Lady
Days before it opened to raving critics and enthusiastic audiences, more than 30 AAPA members and guests enjoyed a sneak preview of the popular musical "My Fair Lady" at the Chatelet Theater on Dec. 3. The show's lively, creative director, Jean-Luc Choplin spent nearly an hour with us, answering questions about challenges of presenting a musical in English with French subtitles . He…
Farewell to Pat Thompson
We gathered for the burial mass under a gray, damp sky on the morning of December 28 at the Eglise Saint Thomas d'Aquin in the 7th to remember and reflect on the life of longstanding AAPA member Pat Thompson, amid prayers, music and a sense of great loss among some one hundred fifty attending relatives, friends and colleagues. Conducted in English by the American priest Francis Finnigan, the…