Jean-Luc Choplin,the Châtelets director, gave a tall-art gloss to popular Broadway showsWhen Jean-Luc Choplin took over more than a decade ago as director general of Paris’s Théatre du Châtelet – one of the city’s temples to tall culture – heckling from the French press was deafening.
Some critics, or surprised and outraged,nicknamed him Mickey – after the cartoon mouse – because he once worked for Disney. Le Monde accused Choplin of being scandalously lowbrow and a “uncertain defender of the entertainment world”, a purveyor of entertainment rather than culture.
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Source: theguardian.com