Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Blue Transparent Face is Michou's first widely-published collection of ...

For more than half a century, the most flamboyant figure in Paris’s liveliest district was a bouffant-haired man with a single name, Michou. Habitually dressed in blue — often with a blue satin jacket ...

Michou, center, at his cabaret in Montmartre. “I hope you’re enjoying your dinner,” he told the crowd. “If the meat is good, it’s because I slept with the butcher!”Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The ...

Since 1956, his jewel box of a club in storied Montmartre has drawn a host of luminaries, turning the proprietor himself into one. By Liz Alderman Michou, a flamboyant fixture of the Parisian ...