「ムーランルージュ」１３０周年、花火の下でフレンチカンカン

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】パリ・モンマルトルにある老舗キャバレー「ムーランルージュ」が6日、オープンからちょうど130年を迎え、大勢の人が集まる中、盛大な花火とフレンチカンカンの踊りが披露された。（写真はパリのモンマルトルにある老舗キャバレー「ムーラン・ルージュ」で、オープン130周年を祝うイベントに出演するダンサーら）
　花火の色が定番の赤から白や青が交ざったものに変わると、それと同じ配色の衣装を着た長い脚の踊り子およそ５０人が登場し、名物のフレンチカンカンを踊った。
　ムーランルージュはエッフェル塔が完成したのと同じ１８８９年にオープン。それ以来パリを訪れる観光客に、建物の外観だけでも必ず見るべき場所として親しまれてきた。
　１回２時間のショーが毎晩２回行われる。週７日１年３６５日を通じてチケットはほぼ完売。ショーの観客は、観光客と地元住民がおよそ半分ずつとなっている。
　ムーランルージュはポップカルチャーにも登場してきた。バズ・ラーマン監督のヒット映画『ムーランルージュ』（２００１）の前にも、ザ・ザ・ガボールが出演したジョン・ヒューストン監督の作品『赤い風車』（１９５２）がある。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/10/08-08:33）

Thousands of people massed outside the Moulin Rouge caberet on Sunday night for a fireworks and French can-can extravaganza to mark the 130th anniversary of the storied Montmartre institution.
Police blocked off the boulevard for the event, which began with music and a light show projected onto the iconic red windmill, recounting the venue's Belle Epoque origins.
A sole dancer then appeared on the roof, braving the autumn chill in one of the caberet's skimpy sequined costumes -- though she was not topless, presumably a nod to the families in the crowd.
Then, as fireworks boomed overhead -- red, naturally, later mixed with whites and blues -- around 50 long-legged dancers wearing the same colours emerged to perform their famous can-can.
Yiftah Bar-Akiva, an Israeli who has lived in Paris for 11 years, was sipping champagne from a flute glass with friends who came for the party.
It's as mythical as the Eiffel Tower, it's like a piece of history of the Belle Epoque, he said.
I don't think it's disrespectful of women, I think it's still art, he added. It's not like it's a peepshow!
Joanna Cavarzan travelled from his home near the city of Chartres, not far from Paris, with a friend, Joe McGinty, who was visiting from Toronto.
I've never been inside, and I was hoping to see a little bit what it was like, Cavarzan said.
But like many in the crowd, she could hardly see the dancers -- no stage had been set up on the boulevard for their show.
Opened in 1889 -- the same year as the Eiffel Tower was completed -- the Moulin Rouge has become a must-see for millions of tourists to the French capital, even if only from the outside.
The two nightly shows, two hours each, are almost always sold out seven nights a week, 365 nights a year, with tourists and locals attending in roughly even numbers.
The cabaret has also become a touchstone in popular culture, not only with Baz Luhrmann's 2001 hit film but before that in 1952 with John Huston's version starring Zsa Zsa Gabor.