The northern comedian and director, who said goodbye to the stage in 2018, announces his return with a new one-man show entitled “Boon will do better!” planned for 2025. A surprising decision that he came to explain on the set of Quotidien on TMC.
His daughter Sarah, the spark that started it all
It was during a lunch with Gilbert Coulier, his producer, that everything changed. Dany Boon says: “I was with my daughter who was 12 at the time, Sarah. I said 'there, I would like to do a play in two years'. And there is my daughter who goes 'but you're not doing one-man show, dad? I'd like to see you on stage and everything, doing a one-man show.“An intervention which visibly struck a chord with the artist and pushed him to reconsider his decision to stop performing.
An ambitious return to basics for Dany Boone
The new show, directed by Isabelle Nanty, her partner in “Arthur in real life“, promises to be a return to his origins. The poster, showing a young Dany sitting on school benches, suggests a dive into his childhood memories.
On Instagram, the comedian shares his enthusiasm: “After 7 years away from the stage and a crazy desire to make you laugh, I'm coming back to my childhood dream with a brand new one-man show!“The tour will begin on January 21, 2025 in Belgium, before traveling across France, with a finale planned at the Casino de Paris from October 3 to 19, 2025.
From 2018 farewells to the real reasons for his return
In 2018, during his farewell to the Zénith de Lille with “Dany de Boon from Hauts-de-France“, the artist justified his departure by an incompatibility of schedule. “I shot a lot, I traveled a lot with the films all over the world. And I said to myself, I can't do both fronts“, he explains today.
He admits to having wanted to write for the theater, “not one-man shows, plays of other genres”. An ambition that he was unable to complete, as he explains: “Each time, I write parts of a piece and it stops. In fact, it’s a sketch.”
But the DNA of the one-man show has never really left him, despite his declarations in 2017 on the set of “It’s yours” where he stated: “I didn't understand why artists, when they were in cinema, stopped doing stage work and one-man shows. It's because we can't reconcile the two, it's complicated.”
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