Musical (2015)


Musique: Daniel Messé
Paroles: Daniel Messé • Nathan Tysen
Livret: Craig Lucas
Production à la création:

Based on the beloved five-time Oscar-nominated film, Amélie (Tony nominee Phillipa Soo) is an extraordinary young woman who lives quietly in the world, but loudly in her mind. She covertly improvises small, but surprising acts of kindness that bring joy to those around her. But when a chance at love comes her way, Amélie realizes that to find happiness she'll have to risk everything and say what's in her heart. Come be inspired by this imaginative dreamer who finds her voice, discovers the power of connection and sees possibility around every corner. In these uncertain times, Amélie is someone to believe in.

The musical opens with an introduction of young Amélie and her family ("Times Are Hard For Dreamers (Prologue)"). Young Amélie is born to a germaphobe father, Raphael, and neurotic mother, Amandine, and she feels isolated and emotionally distant from her parents. She takes solace in her telescope, which she uses to view the universe from afar. Her only contact with her parents comes in the form of a daily health check-up from her father. One day, Amélie gets so excited to see him that her heart races and Raphael misdiagnoses her with a heart condition ("World's Best Dad").
Her parents, paranoid, begin to homeschool Amélie and cut off all of her contact with the outside world. In a lesson with Amandine one day, Amélie imagines her goldfish, Fluffy, coming alive and speaking to her ("World's Best Friend"). When Amélie allows Fluffy to jump into her drinking glass, her parents panic and force Amélie to release Fluffy into the Seine, leaving her alone. Feeling bad, Amandine takes Amélie to Notre Dame to make up for what happened, and Amandine prays for guidance on how to deal with Amélie and hopes for a son ("World's Best Mom"). When they leave the cathedral, Amandine is crushed and killed by a suicidal tourist who leapt from the top of it. The death hits Raphael hard, and he builds a shrine in their home to Amandine, complete with a garden gnome.
Years pass, and Amélie becomes bored with her quiet life and distant father, and she decides to leave home. Five years later, she is a waitress at a café in Montmartre ("Times Are Hard for Dreamers"). She has a quiet, happy life, and spends her time with her three co-workers: Suzanne, the café's owner and a past circus performer, Georgette, a hypochondriac, and Gina. Some of Amélie's regular customers include Gina's ex-boyfriend Joesph, Hipolito, a poet, and Philomene, an air hostess. ("The Commute")
On the night of Princess Diana's death, Amélie discovers a box of childhood treasures belonging to the man who used to own her apartment ("The Bottle Drops"). She is determined to find the owner and anonymously deliver the box to him, and if the owner is touched by her gesture, she resolves that she will become an anonymous do-gooder. She first meets with a cranky grocer, Colignon, who constantly abuses his assistant, Lucien, a mentally-ill young man that has an obsession with fruit ("Three Figs"). Colignon tells Amélie to confer with his mother on the other side of town.
At the train station, Amélie spots a man her age, Nino, who she is attracted to. However, the train arrives before she can introduce herself to him. At Colignon's mother's home, Amélie learns the surname of the box's owner: Bredoteau. When Amélie returns home Nino spots her on the street, noticing how pretty she is and finds himself intrigued with the box.
Time passes, and Amélie's search for Bredoteau isn't working out. One day, she speaks to her neighbor, Raymond Dufayel—an artist who suffers from a brittle bone disease, giving him the nickname 'The Glass Man'—and, possibly recognizing the box, tells her that Bredoteau is the incorrect name. The man was really called Bretodeau. Dufayel then shows Amélie his recreation of the painting The Luncheon of the Boating Party, remarking on Amélie's isolation ("The Girl with the Glass").
Amélie discovers Bretodeau in the phonebook and calls him from a payphone, telling him where he can pick up the box ("How To Tell Time"). When Bretodeau finds it, he reflects on his childhood and decides to call his ex-wife and arrange to meet their son. Taking it as a sign, Amélie continues her good-doing, taking a blind beggar on a tour of the streets of Paris, describing his surroundings in detail. ("Tour de France").
Later that night, Amélie has a strange dream where she imagines her lavish funeral in the style of Princess Diana's, where she is serenaded by Elton John and dubbed 'Godmother of the Unloved' – someone who gives herself to help others despite not being able to find her own love ("Goodbye Amélie"). Amélie suddenly realizes she hasn't helped her father and visits him the next day and tries to convince him to leave home ("Backyard"). He refuses, saying he can't leave the garden gnome, so Amélie secretly steals it as she leaves. On her way home, she spots Nino again at the train station, where he drops a photo album on the ground that Amélie takes.
Amélie explores the album with Dufayel, and finds it is full of photo-booth photographs, one of which is a picture of a man who appears over and over again, expressionless. Nino appears and explains the meaning of the photos to the company ("Stations"). Amélie watches him from the distance, and Dufayel, seeing her attraction to him, encourages her to give the album back and meet Nino.
Amélie seeks out his place of work, a sex shop, and goes dressed as a nun. While she waits for Nino, the other employees mock him, unknowingly painting him as a perfect match for Amélie. However, when he arrives, Amélie runs away ("Sister's Pickle"). He chases her but she escapes and reflects on her childhood, remembering how her mother told her to never get too close to anyone ("Halfway"). Amélie then calls Nino, but refuses to give him her identity, instead sending him a photo of her in another disguise and a riddle to solve.
At the café, Amélie secretly instigates a romantic encounter between Joseph and Georgette. Her father then turns up, telling Amélie about the missing gnome and how he has been getting anonymous postcards detailing the gnome's travels ("There's No Place Like Gnome"). The travels encouraged Raphael to step out of the house to look for him, and Amélie uses the opportunity to get him to relax and embrace the change, while introducing him to Suzanne, who he falls for.
Meanwhile, Nino has been searching Paris for Amélie, and handing out posters with her photo on them to anyone he sees, wondering how he's fallen for someone who doesn't want to be found ("Real You"). While doing another of her good deeds—spray painting a quote from one of Hipolito's poems on walls around Paris—Amélie notices the flyers and runs home, sending Nino another photo and instructions to meet her at the Montmartre Carousel.
Amélie constructs an elaborate trail to lead Nino to the album ("Blue Arrow Suite") and watches him follow it. When he finds the album, she calls out to him, asking about the man in the photo-booth. However, Nino is more interested in seeing her face, and she agrees to meet him at the café on Tuesday.
Tuesday arrives and Nino is late for the meeting, prompting Amélie to imagine an elaborate story to his reasoning ("The Late Nino Quincampoix"). Meanwhile, Georgette is overwhelmed by Joseph's clingy nature. Nino shows up, but when he recognizes Amélie, she finds herself nervous and runs from him. Hurt and tired, Nino leaves, but the girls in the café go after him just as Amélie reconsiders and returns. Asking of Nino's whereabouts, Joseph lies and says he went off with Gina. Heartbroken, Amélie returns home.
Outside the café, Gina, Georgette and Suzanne demand to know Nino's intentions with Amélie ("A Better Haircut"). Nino says he is honestly in love with her, and needs to know her how she feels for him. Touched, Georgette gives him Amélie's address.
At home, Dufayel tries to talk to Amélie, but she angrily tells him to stay out of her business, not stopping to hear that he has finally gotten out of his rut and painted a unique picture: a portrait of her. As she goes inside, Nino shows up outside her door and begs a conflicted Amélie to let him inside and stop running from him ("Stay"). She is convinced to let Nino inside when Dufayel, through the apartment's window, shows Amélie his painting and insists that she'll regret not trying a relationship with Nino.
She opens the door and tells Nino she wants to be with him. He tells her he loves her, even if she cannot love him back ("Halfway (Reprise)"). They kiss and Amélie takes him to the photo booth, where she shows him the answer to the mystery of the man in the album: he's the repairman who takes a photo after fixing the booth, to check if it works properly. They go into the photo booth, taking pictures together, and reflecting on their newfound happiness and wondering what will happen next ("Where Do We Go From Here?").

1 Amélie peut-être considéré comme un Flop musical


Daniel Messé (of Hem) wrote the lyrics with Nathan Tysen, Craig Lucas wrote the book, and Messé wrote the music in the adaptation of the movie for the stage.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre production
Amélie had its premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The musical was directed by Pam MacKinnon and starred Samantha Barks in the title role of Amélie, with scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Jane Cox and Mark Barton and projections by Peter Nigrini.

Los Angeles production
The musical opened at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in a pre-Broadway engagement, running from December 4, 2016 to January 15, 2017 with Phillipa Soo taking over the role of Amélie.[6][7] The cast for the Los Angeles and Broadway productions includes Adam Chanler-Berat, Manoel Felciano, and Tony Sheldon.

Broadway
The musical opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on March 9, 2017 in previews, officially on April 3. Direction is by Pam MacKinnon with musical staging and choreography by Sam Pinkleton. Puppet design is by Amanda Villalobos. On May 4, 2017, it was announced that the musical will close on May 21, 2017, after 27 previews and 56 regular performances.


"Times Are Hard for Dreamers (Prologue)" - Young Amelie, Company
"World's Best Dad" - Young Amelie, Raphael
"World's Best Friend" - Young Amelie, Amandine, Fluffy
"World's Best Mom" - Young Amelie, Amandine
"Times Are Hard For Dreamers" - Amelie
"The Commute" - Company
"The Bottle Drops" - Young Amelie, Amelie, Company
"Three Figs" - Lucien
"The Girl With the Glass" - Dufayel, Amelie
"How to Tell Time" - Amelie, Bretodeau, Company
"Tour de France" - Amelie, Company
"Goodbye, Amelie" - Amelie, "Elton John," Chorus
"Backyard" - Amelie, Raphael
"When the Booth Goes Bright" - Nino
"Sister's Pickle" - Amelie
"Halfway" - Young Amelie, Amelie
"Window Seat" - Amelie, Gina, Gina's Husband, Company
"There's No Place Like Gnome" - Gnome, Company
"Thin Air" - Nino
"Blue Arrow Suite" - Amelie
"The Late Nino Quincampoix" - Amelie, Chorus
"A Better Haircut" - Gina, Suzanne, Georgette, Nino
"Stay" - Amelie, Nino
"Halfway" (Reprise) - Amelie
"Where Do We Go From Here" - Amelie, Nino, Company

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Version 1

Amélie (2015-09-Berkeley Repertory-Berkeley)

Type de série: Original
Théâtre: Berkeley Repertory (Berkeley - Etats-Unis)
Durée : 1 mois 1 semaine
Nombre :
Première Preview : 28 August 2015
Première: 11 September 2015
Dernière: 18 October 2015
Mise en scène : Pam MacKinnon
Chorégraphie : Sam Pinkleton
Producteur :
Star(s) :
Avec: Samantha Barks (Améle), Randy Blair (Hipolito), Adam Chanler-Berat (Nino), Alison Cimmet (Amandine / Philomene), Carla Duren (Gina), John Hickok (Raphael / Bretodeaux), Alyse Alan Louis (Georgette / Fluffy / Sylvie), Paul Whitty (Joseph),
Maria-Christina Oliveras (Suzanne), Tony Sheldon (Dufayel / Collignon)
Commentaires : Original scheduled to close on October 4. The run was extended.

Version 2

Amélie (2016-12-Ahmanson Theatre-Los Angeles)

Type de série: Pre-Broadway Try Out
Théâtre: Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles - Etats-Unis)
Durée : 1 mois
Nombre :
Première Preview : 04 December 2016
Première: 16 December 2016
Dernière: 15 January 2017
Mise en scène : Pam MacKinnon
Chorégraphie : Sam Pinkleton
Producteur :
Star(s) :
Avec: Phillipa Soo (Amélie), Emily Afton, Alyse Alan Louis, David Andino, Randy Blair, Heath Calvert, Adam Chanler-Berat, Alison Cimmet, Savvy Crawford, Manoel Felciano

Version 3

Amélie (2017-04-Walter Kerr Theatre-Broadway)

Type de série: Original Broadway
Théâtre: Walter Kerr Theatre (Broadway - Etats-Unis)

Durée : 1 mois 2 semaines
Nombre :
Première Preview : 09 March 2017
Première: 03 April 2017
Dernière: 21 May 2017
Mise en scène : Pam MacKinnon
Chorégraphie : Sam Pinkleton
Producteur :
Star(s) :
Avec: Phillipa Soo (Amélie), Adam Chanler-Berat (Nino), David Andino (Blind Beggar/Garden Gnome), Randy Blair (Hipolito), Heath Calvert (Lucien/Lug/Mysterious Man), Alison Cimmet (Amandine/Philomene), Savvy Crawford (Young Amélie), Manoel Felciano (Raphael/Bretodeaux), Harriett D. Foy (Suzanne), Alyse Alan Louis (Georgette/Sylvie), Maria-Christina Oliveras (Gina), Tony Sheldon (Collignon/Dufayel), Paul Whitty (Joseph)
Presse : "The mild-mannered musical adaptation of this movie, which opened on Monday night at the Walter Kerr Theater, is unlikely to stir similar passions...it is pleasant to look at, easy to listen to and oddly recessive. It neither offends nor enthralls." Ben Brantley for New York Times

"“Times are hard for dreamers,” the heroine observes. The same goes for audiences dreaming that this show would transcend, or even match, the movie." Joe Dziemianowicz for New York Daily News

"Book writer Craig Lucas and songwriters Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen are at pains to articulate a singable emotional center of the source while staying true to its careening, cinematic narrative. The two duties ultimately cancel each other out." David Cote for Time Out New York

"From the music to the staging to the cartoonish set design, it reeks of well-intentioned children's theatre." Roma Torre for NY1

"This grating stage musical takes the slenderest of romances and drowns it in cartoonish quirks in place of genuine warmth or feeling. And while Phillipa Soo is a creditable stand-in for the movie's uber-gamine Audrey Tautou, as a musical comedy heroine, Amelie Poulain is a dud." David Rooney for Hollywood Reporter

"But the star is so bland here, she's not even Phillipa Soo. More than helpful, it's almost mandatory to have seen the movie if you hope to follow the erratic events of Craig Lucas's twee book." Marilyn Stasio for Variety

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Amélie (2019-12-The Other Palace - Main-London)

Type de série: West End Transfer
Théâtre: The Other Palace (Londres - Angleterre)
Salle : Main Theatre
Durée : 50 ans 1 mois 1 semaine
Nombre :
Première Preview : 29 November 2012
Première: 04 December 0202
Dernière: 01 February 2020
Mise en scène : Michael Fentiman
Chorégraphie :
Producteur :
Star(s) :
Avec: Audrey Brisson, Sophie Crawford, Faoileann Cunningham, Rachel Dawson, Oliver Grant, Chris Jared, Caolan McCarthy, Samuel Morgan-Grahame, Emma Jane Morgan, Kate Robson-Stuart, Josh Sneesby, Jez Unwin, Johnson Wills
Commentaires : After phenomenal demand following the sell-out run at The Watermill Theatre and captivating audiences across the UK, Amélie The Musical is coming to the West End. The much loved five–time Oscar®-nominated film is brought to life by a cast of remarkably talented actor-musicians and set to a critically acclaimed re-orchestrated score.
Presse : ‘Something magical has happened in the journey from screen to stage’ – The Telegraph
★★★★★ ‘Pure Heaven’ – Express

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Amélie (2021-06-Criterion Theatre-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Criterion Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 3 mois 1 semaine
Nombre :
Première Preview : 17 June 2021
Première: 17 June 2021
Dernière: 25 September 2021
Mise en scène : Michael Fentiman
Chorégraphie :
Producteur :
Star(s) :
Avec: Audrey Brisson (Amelie), Sioned Saunders (Gina), Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Georgette / Sylvie), Rachel Dawson (Amandine / Philomene), Oliver Grant (Lucien / Mysterious Man), Chris Jared (Nino Quincampoix), Caolan McCarthy (Hippolito / 'Elton John'), Samuel Morgan-Grahame (Joseph / Fluffy), Kate Robson-Stuart (Suzanne), Jack Quarton (Blind Beggar), Jez Unwin (Raphael / Bretodeau), Johnson Willis (Collignon / Dufayel), Nuwan Hugh Perera, Milya Alexandra, Robyn Sinclair, Matthew James Hinchliffe

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