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The Broadway favorite will play The Kid in the new musical, beginning performances March 12, 2027 at the Majestic Theatre broadway.com/buzz/207923/jo…
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#PrinceOnThisDay - C’est La Vie: That’s Life, That’s the Way It Goes 🌙✨💜
📅 9 November 1986
Deep inside the locked-out nights of Sunset Sound’s Studio 3 in Hollywood, the music came first. Prince turned to overdubs and a mix on Tony LeMans’ unreleased track “C’est La Vie” — French for “that’s life” — a philosophical shrug rendered in the sophisticated, groove-forward R&B and funk of this explosive period. 🎵
🎤 Tony LeMans, the young California singer-songwriter newly connected to Paisley Park, had already tracked the basics earlier that year: his own lead vocals and instruments. What Prince added remains unidentified, yet pure: additional instrumental colors and production that laced the arrangement with his characteristic elasticity, space, and rhythmic conversation. Long and edited versions exist from the session. 🎛️
🏙️ Studio 3 was Prince’s preferred Los Angeles room throughout the mid-1980s — custom API/DeMedio console with 550A equalizers and proprietary preamps, Studer A-800 24-tracks, Augspurger JBLs. Engineers Susan Rogers and Coke Johnson were present, but the decisions stayed with Prince. He preferred working late, hands on the board, letting the music itself carry the emotional weather. 💜
✨ Only four days earlier the sole known Camille configuration had been sequenced in the same studio. Within weeks the work would expand into the Crystal Ball triple set that Warner Bros. eventually trimmed into Sign o’ the Times. The Revolution had dissolved. Even amid a furious creative rate, he still elevated a Paisley Park artist’s song.
📼 “C’est La Vie” was apparently intended for LeMans’ 1989 self-titled album (which featured Sly Stone and George Clinton), but it stayed off the record. Later Prince offered “Fuchsia Light”; that too was withdrawn after he learned of LeMans’ affair with Ingrid Chavez. LeMans died in a motorcycle accident in 1992. Both tracks remain vaulted.
What endures is the sound. The groove must breathe, the layers must converse, the resignation of “that’s life” must land as lived experience rather than slogan. Even on a side project, the music was never secondary. Forty years later the unreleased tape still holds the evidence of that night’s work. 👑✨
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