Marie Gicquel / Photo credit: PIERRE VERDY / AFP 11:00 a.m., February 12, 2024, modified at 11:04 a.m., February 12, 2024
After cover successes like “Mamma Mia” or “Résiste”, it is Michel Sardou’s turn to see his musical repertoire be put in the spotlight. In the new musical comedy "Je va t'aime", an exhilarating troupe offers around thirty scenes based on its cult titles.
After
Mamma Mia
, which covered the music of Abba, or
Résiste
which took on the songs of France Gall, here is the last of its kind: the "musical Juke box". It brings together the greatest hits of Michel Sardou, featured in the musical “Je va t’aimer”. After a hit at the Casino de Paris, she will soon begin a tour throughout France. And you already know the songs from this show, carried by an exhilarating troupe.
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“Small scenarios each time”
A group of friends board the liner France, heading for New York, to the sound of
La Java de Broadway
... This is how this intoxicating show begins which extends from the sixties to the 2000s. An epic of around thirty scenes and as many songs by Michel Sardou, to follow the journeys of these friends. “Each song is full of meaning, it’s like little scenarios each time,” marvels Vinicius Timmerman, member of this energetic troupe.
Moving sets, colorful costumes, elaborate choreographies... On stage, they twirl, in the audience, they hum the famous
"When I was a little boy, I went over my lessons... while singing"
. “Michel Sardou came to see us in Caen. He was very touched. He even said that he had forgotten that he had written one of his songs: the song of the old newlyweds,” confides a spectator. “Je va t’aime” refreshes Michel Sardou’s repertoire and even made the singer want to return to the stage.