Marie Gicquel, edited by Laura Laplaud 10:57 a.m., March 07, 2023
Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, Ray Charles... The musical "Black Legends", currently at the Bobino theater in Paris, takes you on a discovery of Afro-American music.
A show that transforms the theater into a nightclub, with a standing audience, and which will soon be performed at the Zénith.
It's a musical that is currently a hit at the Bobino theater in Paris:
Black Legends.
Between theater and music, it traces the history of Afro-American music from Cab Calloway, through Nina Simone and Beyoncé.
A show that transforms the theater into a nightclub, with a standing audience, and which will soon be performed at the Zénith.
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"I heard a gospel and my heart capsized"
The Bobino theater is packed, yet the seats are empty.
How not to resist the urge to move your buttocks and hum these hits, from gospel to Hip-Hop from Ray Charles to Beyoncé... On stage, musicians, singers and dancers take turns at breakneck speed to joyfully carry a century African-American music.
Behind the scenes, it's the same energy.
Valéry Rodriguez traveled to the United States to create this delightful show.
"I was doing a classical music conservatory, then I heard a gospel and my heart capsized," he says at the microphone of Europe 1.
Sometimes the disco ball disappears and the audience sits down.
The white pointy hats of the Ku Klux Klan land in front of a Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit.
A cry of rage in the face of racist executions.
"It is the bias not to dissociate this repertoire in which the songs are rooted", explains Anandha Seethanen, one of the interpreters.
A flawless and educational tribute that has not finished making people dance.