"a theatrical evening of melancholy, sarcastic, sentimental and severely comic numbers"

Working with composer Mort Shuman, Eric Blau translated a number of Jacques Brel's songs into English and fashioned a theatrical evening of his melancholy, sarcastic, sentimental and severely comic numbers. "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" opened at the Village Gate in Manhattan in 1968 and was still going strong more than four years later. It played briefly on Broadway and has since been produced off-Broadway and in regional theater groups.

Eric Blau, 1921-2009.