Marie Gicquel / Photo credit: @nova_creation_ltd / Facebook 2:39 p.m., March 31, 2024

Adapted from an Andersen tale, this new musical tells the story of the curse that strikes the backstage of an opera. A lovely story between Honoré de Balzac's "Lost Illusions" and the "Phantom of the Opera", highlighted by a pop score.

It's a pair who released hits: Marc Lavoine and the composer Fabrice Aboulker released "Les yeux revolver" or "Qu'est-ce que t'es belle" and took eight years to create a musical:

Les souliers red. 

It tells of the curse that strikes the backstage of an opera. A lovely story between

Honoré de Balzac's

Lost Illusions and The

Phantom of the Opera

. 

To succeed in her performance on the opera floor, Isabelle, a young ballerina, agrees to put on cursed red shoes: anyone who wears these slippers finds success but can give up on love. And obviously, the dancer will fall under the spell of a journalist, named.

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Dramatic dilemma

“It’s a mix of Gainsbourg, Philippe Manoeuvre. I thought of Philippe Manoeuvre, it made me laugh to be a somewhat rock journalist,” Fabrice Aboulker explains with a laugh. An atypical journalist, played by singer Benjamin Siksou. “The choice she has to make between dance and love is the choice we all have to make between two directions to take at all moments of life,” he adds.

This enchanting production succeeds in recreating the fantastic atmosphere of Andersen's original tale with these large veils which surround the dancers and singers on stage... well served by an effective pop score. “The Red Shoes”, a show which is going back on tour in the region, soon in Lyon, Arcachon and Marseille.