A celebrated French drag cabaret has given its ultimate efficiency, bringing an finish to the Parisian fixture that impressed a Hollywood movie.
Chez Michou stated on social media that Sunday’s efficiency could be its final attributable to monetary causes.
The trailblazing cabaret within the capital’s Montmartre district introduced drag leisure to France within the mid-Fifties.
The venue’s managers stated {that a} liquidator could be appointed later this month, with hopes {that a} purchaser may be discovered for the membership.
Regardless of being in a tiny venue, Chez Michou was embellished with gilt framed mirrors attracted guests from throughout France and world wide.
In its heyday, they included French President Jacques Chirac and Hollywood star Liza Minnelli.
The servers who stored the champagne flowing have been known as Michettes, and doubled as performers within the full of life membership.
Chez Michou was based by flamboyant cabaret artist Michel Catty – recognized merely as Michou.
The larger-than-life character was recognized for his all-blue outfits – together with chunky blue glasses.
He’s credited with inspiring the 1983 Oscar-nominated French movie La Cage aux Folles – a comedy a few homosexual couple working a drag nightclub in a French resort city.
An American model was made in 1996 – The Birdcage – starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.
Michou ran the membership proper up till his loss of life in 2020, on the age of 88.
There was an outpouring of grief, with the Élysée Palace issuing a press release saying: “The sky above Montmartre can be rather less blue to any extent further.”
His niece, Catherine Catty-Jacquart, took over working the membership, and informed AFP information company that it had seen an absence of bookings regardless of the Olympics, and blamed its monetary woes on protests, strikes, parking and the influence of Covid.
“We’re residing from day after day,” she stated on Saturday, earlier than it was introduced that the membership had closed its doorways – no less than for now.
