GIROUD ET STOTZ

CLASSY! By the duo Giroud and Stotz Lorsque Cécile GIROUD meets Yann STOTZ in 2010, they order a bloody mary. They exchange their common taste for singing, music, parody, burlesque, then write a modern music-hall show unique in its kind, copiously varied, funny, and surprising whose watchword is “Classy!”. There is indeed a lot of elegance in their attire. They wear haute couture dresses and tuxedos with an almost aristocratic naturalness. In short, they are chic! The problem is that despite the refinement of their attire, they will often lack it… decorum. Often closer to a duel than a harmonious duo, these two oddballs, absolute fans of Monty Pythons, cartoons, French chanson, Anglo-Saxon “musicals,” cinema, B-movies, even Z-movies, burlesque, and life, settle into improbable situations that start well but then derail insidiously and fatally to end in catastrophe… They reinvent English to translate a political speech, they parody Paradis, Renaud, Delerm, Lemay, Reggiani, Gall/Berger, Dalida in a humanitarian song to save… a mustache, they bicker about Sanson and Sardou, they create musical advertising slogans based on cat food and pâté for a presidential campaign, they blindly launch into sign language, they lip-sync to a soundtrack that goes off the rails… but end up uniting their talents for a vibrant tribute to cinema and the greats of humor with, among others, the voices of Mastroiani, BB, Bellucci, Noiret, Liza Minelli, and Tony Benett. Make no mistake, these dissipated and mischievous students gifted for singing, piano, imitation, mime, dance, and comedy love with the greatest elegance to cheerfully cross all barriers to go wipe their feet on the doormat of propriety without anything appearing incongruous, indecent, or out of place. In short, it’s fresh, delightful, deliciously bawdy, completely crazy but always, always of extreme quality.