Welcome to Woodstock, a new musical rooted in the world of the legendary festival, has been installed until January at the Comédia theater.
Parisian petty bourgeois in Woodstock
The dozen actors-singers present on stage revive the hippie years through the prism of a youth disoriented by the police violence of May 68. The play begins with a group of friends based in Paris, tired of a rigorist, violent, bourgeois society, which inspires them only disgust. Motivated by an impulsiveness bathed in artificial paradises, they make the decision to attend the most emblematic event of the hippie movement: the Woodstock festival in New York State. As soon as they arrive, we notice a crack in their sixty-eight behavior. From revolt, they have only an ambition of revolt. The rain almost sees them discouraged from going to the concert. The finest pitfalls crack their desire to "live without downtime" and "enjoy without hindrance". They quickly become exhausted and blush in the face of the temptations of the flesh for which they have not been prepared.
1969, musical year
The torments of the five friends are invariably healed by the red thread of the show: music. Each song cures the problem they had fallen into. In the last half hour, the sequence is faster and the party more excited. The classics of the seventies respond to more discreet titles of the period, with the help of a troupe of actors-singers with impressive vocal dispositions. This will remain one of the slight defects of this Welcome to Woodstock: the actor is sometimes inferior to the singer. Light because all the singers are impeccable, and bringing together so many actors-singers on the same stage remains an exceptional project. The performance of this troupe is therefore to be welcomed.
Welcome to Woodstock, by Jean-Marc Ghanassia
Directed by: Laurent Serrano
From September 15, 2017 to January 7, 2018, at the Comédia theatre
