8th arr., 116 bis avenue des Champs-Elysées
At the Lido, past and present shows are one and the same thing, which is to say they are always marvelous, impeccable, diabolically controlled, lavishly tricky and artificially dazzling. Who cares if there are busloads of Japanese tourists, soccer team members and auto dealers in the room? After all, it is dimly lit. Besides, there are also bare-breasted girls appearing out of the ceiling, helicopters battling one another among the stars, typhoons devastating the stage in a stream of foam, stage areas vanishing underground, and dolphins cavorting in a pool. Sets are forever going up and down, turning around, and vanishing in the most elaborate mechanized stage in the world. Then why is it that some people are bored by it all? Because many of these sets are so overdone and infinitely cretinous that many spectators grow instantly tired of seeing them. Thank heaven there are a lot of absolutely perfect traditional nimbers performed by jugglers, illusionists, contortionists and acrobats. Only the Lido can offer you that.
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18th arr., 82 bvd de Clichy
The Moulin Rouge is the Lido‘s outlet in Pigalle. The management is the same, the food is the same, and so are the busloads of tourists. The amount of ostrich feathers is the same, as is the quality of the shows, and the Doris girl’s bosoms are every centimeter the equal of those of their Bluebell cousins. Yet the Moulin Rouge is probably the best address of its kind in Paris, if not the world. Since it isn’t equipped with the same stunning machinery as the Lido, it features revues that are beautiful choregraphed and designed. The memories of Valentin le Désossé, La Goulue, and a crippled genius named Toulouse-Lautrec are duly evoked during the finale when the cast performs a frenetic French cancan that is imitated elsewhere but never equaled. Book Moulin Rouge Paris now!
