Can-Can is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and a book by Abe Burrows. The story concerns the showgirls of the Montmartre dance halls during the 1890s.
Original Cast Recording
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in Hollywood films.
Porter in the 1930s
Farmhouse at Westleigh Farms
Porter as a Yale College student
Lady in Blue, 1906 portrait of Linda Lee Thomas by Emil Fuchs