04 Oct 2024
This show is poor. It seems to try to serve up something familiar and palatable to North American tourists - lots of dancing to unoriginal North American contemporary pop songs. Variety acts were few and middling at best. Humour was marginal. It wannabe a Vegas show, and did not even succeed in that. Come on! This is Paris! No more than one disdainful mention of Las Vegas would be French, but the references to Las Vegas were so frequent that they seemed to be paying tribute! WTF! Vegas pay tribute to Paris, not the other way around! Where is the French style, the French flare? Audience was underwhelmed - zero curtain calls. Opportunity lost really. The house was full of people who would love to have their minds blown, but they were bored instead. The artistic directors should up their game or be fired. I suggest the directors of the show give free tickets to promising young French artists every night on the condition they propose innovative acts to revitalise your show. As it stands, patrons would be better off to book ahead at one of the better Paris cabarets, Moulin or Crazy Horse.