Boys | Stan and his gang in the theatrical arena

After five films. Therefore, a TV series, Les Boys will make their debut this week at the theater. In addition. However, The most famous amateur hockey team of Quebec will be represented on stage by a dozen actors led by. However, Marc St-Martin.

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The extract presented to the media last week stages the character of Stan. However. For example, the coach of the Boys, and Méo, who is not yet a player of the team, but a lender on wages to whom Stan owes money. Nevertheless, “You accumulate me at the foot of boys | stan his gang new the wall …”, he laments.

The two boys | stan his gang characters. In addition. However, immortalized on the big screen by Rémy Girard and Pierre Lebeau, are here embodied by Emmanuel Bilodeau and Louis Champagne. In addition, In this scene. For example. Moreover, Méo has an idea which, if you remember correctly, will prevent him from breaking the two legs of his friend – which has no sum of money that he owes him.

They will play a hockey match: if the boys win. For example, Méo will erase Stan’s game debt; If they lose, Stan will have to give him his brewery.

In the short opening scene. Consequently. we notice that Bilodeau was made the mustache, “a wink” to that carried by Rémy Girard in the films of Boyshe tells us, while Louis Champagne, wearing a black wig, plays his role as shylock With the quicklight of a gangster.

In the next scene, the Boys quenched in the brewery in Stan, following the match they have just lost. The waitress Sonia (Marilou Morin) takes control. Boisvert (Didier Lucien) launches to him: “I’m going to take a chest, but it is not on the menu! (fatty laughs). »»

Boys | stan his gang new

Boys | stan his gang

Adapt to “the humor that has evolved”

These replicas. boys | stan his gang new like the pep talk de Bob (Marc Messier) on “the hardness of boys | stan his gang the mind”. made the first film of Boysfrom Louis Saia, released in 1997, a classic, for better and for worse. Are we going to find all these valves in the show?

The director. Marc St-Martin. who teams up with Guillaume Corbeil for the adaptation of the scenario, explains to us that 80 % of the content is the same, but that yes, there have been adjustments on the remaining 20 %, because “of course, humor has evolved”, he admits.

But there is no question of “laundering” the boys either. according to Marc St-Martin. who was due to what they remain the “colorful and fun” characters that they are, “from different education circles”, with everything they are, “without hiding their faults”, who are “paid” in comedy.

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“The important thing for me was to make sure that the characters around them are able to defend themselves. to be distributed and to put the boys back in their place when it is necessary,” says the director.

He gives us the example of the joke on the breast command. which he decided to keep.

“I have been in rotisseries, and boys | stan his gang new I asked the boys | stan his gang waitresses: do you still hear this joke?” I was told: Yes, every day! The question is: how it is received. In our adaptation, not all boys find it funny. Boisvert is called Cro-Magnon by Jean-Charles [Gabriel Sabourin]. And the waitress is quick to defend herself in this scene. »»

What about hockey in all of this?

The first question we ask ourselves by seeing the extract of Boys EST: How. are they going to reproduce the game scenes? Including the key match against goons of meo? After all, it is more or less a third of the film that takes place on the ice…

Marc St-Martin admits that it was one of the greatest challenges of the staging of Boys.

“The goal was to believe in a hockey match. So the games will be mentioned, but we will not attend game scenes, this was not possible. On the other hand. there will be a small patible surface, where you will see entrances and feedback from skate players. We will see them on the bench, in the locker room too, ”explains Marc St-Martin.

The director’s other challenge was to direct the 12 actors in the play. In addition to those already mentioned. we will also find David Savard (Bob). Benoît Drouin-Germain (Ti-Guy), Mikhail Ahooja (Mario), Thomas Derasp-Verge (Léopold), Denis Houle (Fern), Marie-Pierre Labrecque (several roles) and Nicolas Pinson (Julien).

“There are so many cult replicas, which must be delivered in a certain rhythm so that it is effective. And then the major challenge is that the 12 actors have about the same number of aftershocks. sometimes it is a replica to the two pages, so it is really like directing an orchestra. The actors have a huge listening job to do so that it works. At the same time. it is necessary to boys | stan his gang choreographed everyday life, which means that it is a boys | stan his gang new work of goldsmithery. »»

At the Théâtre du Vieux-Terrebonne from June 26 to August 2, then on tour throughout Quebec from January 2026.

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