No need for debauches of social networks, marketing and technical means, to put on a great show: all you need are simple ideas and above all, good artists.
Black Legends
is THE musical to see in Paris right now.
The show traces the lives of famous black American musicians, from the time of slavery to the present day.
We enjoy a repertoire of great tunes where we find among others Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Beyonce or Michael Jackson.
These 37 titles, superbly served by a troupe of outstanding performers accompanied by musicians present on stage, have been skilfully re-orchestrated by Christophe Jambois, giving the whole a beautiful coherence.
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Although there are no headliners among the singers and dancers, the level is really excellent.
We discover artists like the American Barry Johnson, clearly imbued with this culture, or Christian Schummer, who is equally at ease singing and dancing.
On the staging side, Valery Rodriguez is efficient and always on point, and Sami Bedioui's costumes are a pleasure for the eyes.
The subject is not always light when it evokes racism or the exactions of the Ku Klux Klan;
but it also gives all the more relief to the conquest of civil rights through the figures of Martin Luther King, Obama or Kennedy.
A whole epic whose Afro-American music is the reflection, as summarized by the song
I'm Black and I'm Proud
.
This show is the very good news of this fall.
Bobino, Paris 14th, until January 8, 2023.