• Grosse Prod 'was created in February 2019 and aims to make Nice a stand-up scene.

  • The president of the association defines this kind of show as "an artist armed with his courage and a microphone who uses his experience to make an audience laugh."

  • For the moment, about fifty comedians are in Nice, a figure that Pascal hopes to inflate by collaborating with other cities.

"The stand-up is an artist armed with his courage and a microphone who uses his experience to make an audience laugh", defines the president of the Nice association Grosse Prod ', Pascal Schiavone. If this kind of show is very widespread in the capital, "there must be 300 sets per evening for 3,000 artists" he analyzes, the Nice scene is also beginning to make a place for itself with about fifty comedians.

"We all want to make Nice a must-see stand-up place," says Audrey Baldassare, one of the five artists who will participate this Wednesday evening, for ten minutes each, on the set which takes place at the South station.

Nobody wants to leave the city, it is very inspiring.

The goal is really to combine Nice and stand-up.

We feel that there is a way to change mentalities, and that it is opening up.

Now that the scenes are developing, some comedians from Paris are asking me when they can come and play here!

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The peculiarities of the Nice public

The particularity of the Nice scene is perhaps its audience. Caroline Renault, in charge of the organization of the sets with Grosse Prod ', explains: “In Nice, compared to other cities where stand-up is developed, the public discovers by chance. They have been there, they did not know, they are in this bar and the event is taking place. It is therefore more difficult since it is necessary to capture their attention. It's different from a show where we go because we have paid. "

Pascal Schiavone adds: “And then, there are a few clichés on the mentalities of the South like what it is a little closed-minded, rich and conservative.

But ultimately, in the team, we have women, men, lesbians, people of all origins and it works.

The public loves without them having to magnify their personality and go into exaggeration to be validated.

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“Each audience is different and we adapt depending on who we will find in front of us, but even through ten minutes of stage, an artist can help to change visions of the world, we always have a message to convey.

And then, above all, we need to make people laugh with this complicated year, ”concludes Audrey Baldassare.

"It's over with this speech where you have to go to Paris to succeed"

Grosse Prod 'was created in February 2019 with the aim of settling down by offering a cultural event and by diversifying the scene, as with “open mic” in Old Nice. All this, to “play, test and raise awareness among the people of Nice”. The president of the association aims "to bring down the artists instead of bringing up the premises." It's over with this speech where we say to ourselves that we absolutely have to go to Paris to succeed. "However, he underlines the contribution of the collaboration with a Parisian scene," to send artists to each other and vice versa ". “We are going to do the same thing with Lyon and Geneva, and why not, in the more distant future, in Canada. "

It is also this North American country that Audrey dreams of. Because for her, this job is “itinerant”. She is already juggling between Paris, Nice and “her mountain”, Valdeblore, where she comes from and where she has succeeded in the challenge of “bringing humor to it”. But what she likes in the region, and which she cannot find elsewhere, is “this group synergy, which creates a family and which pulls upwards”. It is part of the program of Grosse Prod 'which organizes a set every Wednesday at the Gare du Sud, with five artists, ten minutes each followed by a DJ set to end the evening.

The Nice scene is growing and Grosse Prod 'has something to do with it.

She took part in the organization of the "Summer tour" at the Palace, takes care of the Ladies Comedy, a 100% feminine show and has the will to deploy more to "allow artists to discover themselves, to create and to move forward. ".

The association hopes soon "to no longer be paid in beers and finally pay the artists in salaries".

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