Laurence of Magalhaes and Stéphane Ricordel named at direction of roundabout theater

Founder, in 1993, from the company The Jumps, the duo, which restarted the Monfort, in Paris, will replace in January 2023 Jean-Michel Ribes at the head of the Champs-Elysées room.

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On the Magalhaes Laurence phone, the sound signal of the SMS does not stop, March 28 at night, at the Monfort Theater in Paris. The congratulatory messages follow one another. The press release has not been sent yet that the whole environment already knows the result of the races: it is it and its husband – companion of all his adventures – Stéphane Ricordel, currently at the head of the Monfort, who were chosen by the Ministry of Culture and the City Hall of Paris to take the rest of Jean-Michel Ribes at the direction of the theater of the roundabout, from the 1 er January 2023.

“It happens at the right time. This is the good timing for us. The roundabout is a great theater, central, emblematic, loose Laurence of Magalhaes with this enthusiastic energy that it never seems to be dwriting. We s ‘hear with Jean-Michel [ribes]. When we arrived at the Monfort, twelve years ago, it was a bit the reference, on Paris. We went to see him, he told us: “If at the end Two years it does not work, go! Because that means you’re bad. “” She laughs. “After a few months, he called us and told us:” But you’re strong enough, actually! “” “

Great gap

Stéphane Ricordel keeps silent. He, with whom she created, in 1993, the company the jumps arts, she, in management; He hung on his trapeze, grabbing the voltigers of his safe hand – is focused on the evening. Monday night, the Ukrainian group Dakrahabrakha for a concert of which the entire recipe (12,000 euros) will be donated to an association of help for those who are under the bombs. “Today is Ukraine,” he said, his face closed. The roundabout, we will talk about it tomorrow … “

To watch the magnificent crowd, young and noisy who occupies the theater, we say that there is still a great gap between this hawkanks lost at the door of Vanves, at the foot of the cities which Close an XV e Bourgeois otherwise borough, and the very chic roundabout theater, on the Champs-Elysées. Laurence de Magalhaes smiles: “A theater with a bar, a bookstore and where, after, you can go for dinner? A place where people arrive very early, leave very late, where it is the brothel, alive, where we pass a long time. It’s a bit like here. For me, that’s the theater, today. And that, we will continue it. “

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