Editing Gigi (novella) (section)

==Adaptations==
The novella was the basis for [[Gigi (1949 film)|a 1949 French film]] starring [[Danièle Delorme]] and [[Gaby Morlay]]. 

In 1951, it was [[Gigi (play)|adapted for the stage]] by [[Anita Loos]]. Colette had personally picked the yet unknown [[Audrey Hepburn]] on first sight to play the title role.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gigi Times Three |date=June 4, 2018 |url=http://loveletterstooldhollywood.blogspot.com/2018/06/gigi-times-three.html |website=Love Letters to Old Hollywood |access-date=25 August 2019}}</ref> Her Aunt Alicia was played by stage legend [[Cathleen Nesbitt]], who was to become Hepburn's acting mentor from that time on. Opening on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] at the [[Fulton Theatre]] on 24 November 1951, the play ran for 219 performances (finishing on 31 May 1952) and Hepburn's Broadway debut earned her a [[Theatre World Award]].<ref name="gigi">{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/1977 |title=''Gigi'' |website=IBDB.com |publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]] }}</ref>

A [[Gigi (1958 film)|1958 musical film version]], starring [[Leslie Caron]] in the title role, with a screenplay by [[Alan Jay Lerner]] and a score by Lerner and [[Frederick Loewe]], won the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]]. Lerner and Loewe adapted the film for an expurgated [[Gigi (musical)|1973 stage musical]] that proved to be unsuccessful but was revived on Broadway in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Isherwood|first=Charles|authorlink=Charles Isherwood|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/theater/vanessa-hudgens-in-a-squeaky-clean-gigi-on-broadway.html|title=Review: Vanessa Hudgens in a Squeaky Clean 'Gigi' on Broadway|website=[[New York Times]]|date=8 April 2015|access-date=19 January 2017}}</ref>