The older women begin to notice his interest, and everyone seems aware of what’s changing–except Gigi. But Gigi is becoming a woman, and Gaston begins to notice her.
For her part, Gigi treats him like one of her playmates and resists the older women nudging her to eat and dress and speak and adorn herself “properly” for her future role in the world. He believes it is the one place where no one wants anything from him. The target of their campaign is the wealthy man-about-town Gaston Lachaille, a friend of the family who has brought Gigi caramels and licorice since she was a little girl, and retreats to their home to escape the social whirl (and his mistresses) to play cards and relax with Gigi. Alvarez, and her “Aunt” Alicia, who were courtesans before her, Aunt Alicia much more successfully. The original Gigi tells the story of a long-legged and beautiful 15-year-old who is being groomed for the life of a concubine by her grandmother, Mme. There were few career options open to women of her station, short of being a wife or being, as it was euphemistically called, a “concubine.” Colette (the single pen name she adopted once she freed herself from Gauthier-Villars and struck out on her own) observed closely the strategems these high-society “kept women” to find as high-status a “keeper” as she could. But the story draws on her life in the demimonde of Belle Époque Paris four decades earlier, when she was married and treated as virtual property by her husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars, who put his own name on her early literary works. Gigi was born in the mind of French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), one of the most complex writers of the 20th century, and first appeared in an eponymous novella written during the Nazi occupation of Paris, and published in 1944.
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What is there about her tawdry/romantic story-an underage girl being trained as a high-class courtesan, whose life is redeemed and legitimized by a bourgeois marriage to a rich playboy-that has sustained her through a novel, a film, a stage play, an Oscar-winning über-glamorous musical film (the form in which most people know the story), a Broadway musical…and, coming this spring, a full Broadway musical revival with a revised book?
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