Bobino

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For the Quebec television program see: Bobino (television).

Bobino at 20 rue de la gaité, in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France is a legendary music hall theatre that has seen most of the biggest names of 20th Century French music perform there.

Bobino began as a dance hall in 1800, became a theatre in 1873, and was converted back to a music hall in 1926. After one hundred and eighty-three years, Bobino closed its doors but reopened in 1991.

Although still a very popular venue today, Bobino was one of the most popular entertainment spots in France during the 1920s and 1930s. On April 8, 1975 Josephine Baker, the African American superstar of France who had appeared at Bobino beginning in the 1920s, gave her last performance there at the age of sixty-eight.

Gerard Louvin and Stéphane Cherki transformed in 2007 the theater Bobino in Cabaret. The Cabaret is called now Bobin'o.

Over the years some of the stars who appeared on stage at Bobino have included: