The Bridge Stage of the Arts, Inc. (The Bridge) was started by its Artistic Director, Avra Petrides, in 1980; and has produced music-theater festivals in the South of France with American musical-theater artists such as Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist and librettist of My Fair Lady, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green screenwriters and lyricists of Singin' In The Rain. These artists performed and also gave master classes on musical theater to lyricists, librettists, playwrights, composers, directors, and performers from all over the world.