Marcel Blanchet at Charles R. Wood Theater

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“The Journey of E”, a jazz musical is an anthology of the history of jazz and an homage to Edith Piaf. A newspaper boy uses the day’s headlines to guide the audience though the journey. An intimate nostalgic voyage from New York to Paris guided thru the channels of Prohibition in America to the alluring Parisian influence of the "chanson", evokes the tempestuous life of "E", a jazz singer with a gift for tragic love songs, performing a melange of French and English stylings of what would become known as Europe's reinvention of jazz.