A “heavy and painful” decision. The musical Les 10 Mandments, the desire to love Pascal Bishop in June 2024 was canceled. “The losses accumulated in the first operations and our impossibility of finding a viable economic model with the various interested parties, forced us to make this heavy and painful decision,” said the organizers of the program to explain this cancellation.
Many dates were scheduled for the end of the year and in 2026. The organizers specify “stop the sale of tickets and reimburse the spectators who have already acquired their places.”
As a reminder, The 10 commandmentsMusical comedy written by Lionel Florence and Patrice Guirao, composed of Pascal Bishop, and choreographed by Kamel Ouali, was played for the first time in the Sports Palace in Paris in October 2000. He had experienced a strong impact, with 1.8 million spectators in France and 1.6 million albums sold. Some tubes, such as The desire to love, The dilemma either The maximum penaltyThey remain in memories.
Therefore, Pascal Bishop had decided to relaunch it in a new version in Paris in June 2024, then organize a great tour throughout France, between November 2025 and February 2026.
Chouraqui Controversy
The organizers of the cancellation of the shows and the legal action carried out by Elie Chouraqui, director of 10 commandments of the 2000s, against Pascal Bishop.
The latter had seized justice in 2023 for “falsification”, “parasitism” and “unfair competition”. He asked for the cancellation of the show created by the singer and composer of the 2000 program, The 10 commandments, the desire to loveas well as 352,000 euros in damages, arguing that the new version took elements of the old man without its river down.
But the filmmaker and the director had been fired in the first instance and was ordered to pay 10,000 euros for having denied the project in the press and 25,000 euros in legal costs. Elie Chouraqui then appealed and requested that his sentence be executed before the court.
But Elie Chouraqui returned and finally abandoned his call, we learned last July for the informed, preferring to “move forward” according to the director of the director, Charles Morel.
Source: BFM TV
