In some of my previous posts, I promised you a post about the blockbusters of French-speaking musical theatre. Here it is. Every one or two years, a big show with a cast of at least 50 people and a creative team only slightly smaller invades Paris. Their producers become famous. Their songs are on the […]
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In May of 2013, high school Marion was just discovering The Last Five Years and was very sad that she would probably never see a production of it. She cast one last glance at the wikipedia page and shrieked: she had just discovered that a Paris production was planned two months later. For the purpose […]
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On different message boards, you can find many posts where English-speaking people complain about some uninventive lyric with worn out rhymes like “love” and “glove” or even worse, with “dove.” All I have to answer is: putting some love and a glove in the same sentence need at least some context, some thought, some thinking… […]
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Last time, I promised you a post about French children’s musical theatre. Here it is! In this post, I’m gonna talk to you about two adorable shows that I absolutely adore. I am a fierce defender of children’s musical theatre, mainly because the simple fact that a show is designed for a young audience doesn’t take […]
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In my last post, I told you about the stereotypical picture of Paris we can find in musical theatre. Fine, but then what kind of MT can we actually find in France? In this post, I will only tell you about shows or movies that were originally written in French. (Paris also welcomes translations of […]
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I said “kiss” frogs, not “eat” them. Now that this frog thing is clear, let’s start with the serious things. In a previous article on this website, it was said that France “rocked” at musical theatre. However, as a French MT lover, I feel it is my duty to inform you all that this is […]
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