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- Bijou and the wonderful Bar Pianist are on the road…
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- How can we get to our Northern fans???
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- Here’ where we are going..except for Gunnedah…they dropped us…
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- Where will we stay??? Now we can stay in motels, not under trees!
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- Alan dioes not have to sleep in his piano case on this tour, thanks to our Pozible Angels.
BIJOU A CABARET OF SECRETS AND SEDUCTION
This is the photograph that started it all. What a vision!
Chrissie Shaw. Photographer Silas Brown
Alan Hicks. Photographer Susan Pilbeam
Toujours la gaiete regn’ au Nocturn’ Bar
C’est le Paradis de tous les fetards!
Bijou keeps up with the fashion in 1920!
…and I yield, yours alone…
‘he beats me too, takes all my sous…
Her journey is done, Back to Paris she weaves, On her way she recruits…a bevy of lasses fresh from the farms…
Bijou’s ‘Cher Maison’ offers exotic joys for the patrons.
Bijou sings Kurt Weill
Bijou sings Kurt Weill’s ‘Ballad of Sexual Obsession’.
…he’ll be up and doing!
‘…providing a strong supportive presence, sensitive piano accompaniment and gentle vocal harmonies…’
Bijou marries ‘Fufi’, her German General, a relic from the Prussian War
Mistress of the household, the Estate…
Bijou’s ‘Fufi’ is a Count, so she becomes a Countess. It is not a good marriage!
‘I had a delightful life…apart from the discipline…’
The slaps get out of hand during Bijou’s marriage to ‘Fufi’…
‘Claude plays ‘Claire de Lune’ for Bijou’s ‘Danse D’Egypte’
Bijou dances at her Salon..as La Belle Topaze.
Bijou shows off her loot from her travels to the Mysterious East. All to equip her new enterprise, A high-class House of Joy.
Bijou gets a job dancing at Les Varietes at 19
Bijou as ‘Little Madeleine’ dances to Satie
BIJOU sings ‘The Diva of the Empire’
Bijou as ‘Little Madeleine’ shows almost all.
“Blood on the Snow, A veil of Crimson…” Alan, as ‘Jacques’, shares his Symbolist poem as Bijou dances interpretively
As Jacques reads his poem, Bijou (aka Rubis) rakes in the ‘sous’ as they busk outside Le Chat Noir
Bijou dances to a faux Symbolist poem…the money rolls into the hat…
Bijou is not herself till she is dressed to go out for breakfast
Alan, ‘the long-suffering bar pianist’ has a laugh.
Bijou returns to her childhood, when her trials began.
BIJOU - A Cabaret of Secrets and Seduction 