That
was a bet : to unload in the sometimes smooth landscape of the french
musicals with large American artillery, and in the temple of the
cancan! For the event, the team of Entertainment Training course, under
the eyes the Netherlander Joop van den Ende, arrived with weapons and
luggage: not less than 300 tons of decorations, including 150 tables
which replaced the armchairs of orchestra, thus transforming the
Madnesses Shepherdess into Berliner cabaret, the Kit Kat Club. The
realizer Sam Mendes and the choreographer Rob Marshall revisit this
musical of Broadway in which one finds the characters of Cabaret: the
ingenuous one and tragic Sally Bowles with the master of ceremonies,
while passing by opportunist Fräulein Schneider, without
forgetting the writer Clifford Bradshaw, alias Christopher Isherwood,
author of Good-bye in Berlin. A book which inspired first musical (in
1966) put in scene by Harold Prince and, especially, the film of Bob
Fosse (1972) who gained 8 Oscars of which that of better actress
allotted to Liza Minnelli, unforgettable Sally. Completely adapted and
interpreted in French and live by artists and musicians found in the
capital, the spectacle is announced right now like a success, even if
one has a presentiment of that, from here at a few weeks, it should
still gain in thickness. After a first sulfurous and carefree part, one
enters on one level the heavy atmosphere of the first effects of the
Nazism. Fabian Richard incarnates an impressive master of ceremonies,
carrying out the troop and apostrophizing the room with a beautiful
demolition. Claire Pérot is at the same time touching and
upsetting in the role of Sally Bowles. Its play is still a little
unequal, but the song is impeccable and the very sexy young lady. Not
false notes thus, except those distributed liberally and to the limit
of bearable by Catherine Arditi, in spite of very convincing in the
costume of Fräulein Schneider. To also note talented Pierre
Reggiani who plays Herr Schultz, Delphine Grandsart, excellent
Fräulein Kost, and of the dancers and actor-musicians to the
height of this ambitious show. Welcome to Paris!
