Thus, the Place des Arts decided to pull the plogue on the show December which, every year for the past 20 years, has been celebrating Quebec’s holiday traditions.
Me, all I have to say is “Good riddance! »
ARRIVE IN TOWN!
After all, Place des Arts is not located in the countryside!
Where people marry cousins and dance the jig all day long!
The PDA is in Montreal!
The metropolis of Canada!
A multicultural capital of international renown!
Recognized throughout the world for its magnificent Ring!
Which rivals in beauty with the most beautiful monuments in the world!
We are not like in Saint-Glinglin-les-Moineaux, in Montreal!
We don’t close in on our little dusty traditions that smell of fir!
We are open! We are open !
Proof that we love diversity: we had a Dwarf Palace! We exposed the skeleton of the giant Beaupré!
You could see the Great Antonio, a pillar of the Yugoslav community, pulling buses with his hair through the streets of Rosemont!
And long before body diversity was all the rage, Bébé Papillon (350 pounds of fun) and Pitou La Botte (three-foot-six muscle) were rocking their ass in the hottest bars. topless from the city !
We don’t just have tight knit Hell’s in Montreal, oh no! We have the Italian mafia! The Russian mafia! Street gangs of all colors!
It shoots in French! In English ! In Mandarin! In Arabic !
And during Expo 67, we didn’t differentiate between ethnic groups, we sold spoiled meat in the pavilions of all countries!
A MODERN CITY!
That’s Montreal!
And you think we’re going to cry because we won’t be able to see Ti-Coune dancing the rigodon anymore?
Heritage and folklore, we leave that to the regions!
What’s the point of having a dog sled when you can take the subway?
We have Wi-Fi, the rest of us! The Internet is coming into our homes! We Snap-pussy! We Tik-Toke! We talk to the whole world!
We put on experimental plays about the lack of social housing for homeless non-binary drug addicts!
What do you want us to do with your Canadian nights ?
We’re going to replace that with a multidisciplinary show written by ChatGPT and approved by an intersectional committee!
We will sing Midnight Christian !
Black Christmas !
I saw daddy kiss Santa Claus !
Et Fa La La de Bündock !
OPEN TO THE WORLD!
Some gossips say that the PDA (which is largely funded by the Quebec government) is closed to the culture of the regions.
Faux !
You can see Japanese drum shows there! Russian ballets! Chinese dancers!
And American musicals!
Remember: Place des Arts is not located in Quebec! It is located in Montreal!
Which is both unceded Mohawk territory and ceded French territory!
Come see us !
Come and See Us !
Two Five Four Six O One One !