“Starmania”: why we loved the new version of the musical

Before the arrival of the singers and dancers, before the visual and musical fireworks that are about to unfurl for almost three hours in the room, there is first of all this suspended moment, this first fleeting emotion: a keyboard player with instantly recognizable curly brown hair is in charge of swinging the intro of “Starmania”. His piano dances. The benevolent shadow of Michel Berger hangs over the new adaptation of the rock opera, which the musician who died thirty years ago created in 1978 with Canadian lyricist Luc Plamondon.