INTERVIEW
Invited Media Culture this Friday morning, on Europe 1, to talk about his play Kean , at the theater of the Workshop from November 5 to January 5, the director Alain Sachs recounted the anecdote of his meeting with Michael Jackson. Or how "the king of pop" came to see his room without anyone knowing ...
At the time, the musical The Passe-Muraille after Marcel Aymé, which earned Alain Sachs the Molière for best director in 1997, is played Bouffes-Parisiens. "One day, they call me to say, 'Michael Jackson wants to come see the show.' It takes a while to make sure the information is the right one and you have to organize it in total secrecy because less of its movements is tracked by billions of people, "jokes Alain Sachs at the microphone of Europe 1.
"I was the only one who knew it," says the director. It is he who is responsible for extinguishing the room before the beginning of the show, a little earlier than usual, to bring in the American star. "Because if people had seen Michael Jackson enter the room, we could not even start the show!"
"Francis Perrin had like a tachycardia attack"
It remains to be seen whether or not to warn the actors of the coming of the singer of Thriller . "I told them, I have someone very important to come, that those who want to know it tell me." His actors gently mock him and the show starts with Michael Jackson and Stanley Donen, the director of Dansons en la pluie , in the audience.
Alain Sachs remembers: "Me, I spend my show hidden in the set to see Michael Jackson.And at the end of the show, I say to Francis Perrin, who had just sung and danced for two hours in front of Michael Jackson: 'C 'It was Michael Jackson' and he makes me: 'very, very funny' The curtain opens, he sees Michael Jackson and there he has a tachycardia attack. '
Impossible, however, for the "king of pop" to come and dine with the troupe. "His service, armed to the teeth," did not want to, says Alain Sachs, who still managed to get a photo with the singer, who congratulated and shook hands with him. "Without the gloves," says the director humorously.