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Emmanuel Moire reprises his role in the musical “Le Roi Soleil” which goes on tour again in 2025.
CULTURE – Will it always be “up to par” ? Singer and actor Emmanuel Moire has announced that he will reprise his role as Louis XIV in the landmark musical The Sun King who goes on tour again 20 years later, in an interview given to Parisian this Wednesday, December 4.
The return of the emblematic show by Kamel Ouali and produced by Dove Attia was announced last October, for a tour throughout France from December 2025. The casting, however, had not been announced. This time, the main role is known and to the delight of fans, it is Emmanuel Moire who dons the costume.
While he had refused to participate in the 15th anniversary tour, the singer this time said yes, because he “ acquired twenty years of experience » and knew that this time he would “ enjoy it a lot more.” “At the time I was so young, it was so enormous, that I did not allow myself the pleasure of expressing myself in total freedom, it was complicated for me to manage all that,” he continues.
Christophe Maé has not been contacted
Emmanuel Moire put on the Sun King wig when he was only 25 years old. Musical hits such as Being up to par, my essential or That works made artists into real stars. Emmanuel Moire also continued in Music before branching out into comedy, he now plays in the TF1 soap opera Tomorrow belongs to us. He has since won Dancing with the Stars in 2012.
Christophe Maé, who was the brother of the king, Philippe, and had exploded in particular thanks to That works, was not, however, contacted, indicated Kamel Ouali to Parisian. “If he calls us to tell us: Here we gohere we go. But the title is the Sun Kingso it is Manu who, since then, has become a real actor”justified the choreographer.
The Sun King made its debut in September 2005 in Paris, before going on tour in France but also in Belgium and Switzerland for two years. The musical show in two acts followed the eventful love life of the King of France Louis XIV, as well as his complex accession to power in a tense political and social climate. The musical won two NRJ Music Awards in 2006 and 2007.
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