Audrey Brisson is a charming delight in the title role amidst a hard-working ensemble of actor-musicians in a show that I sense I could become addicted to. I am already planning a return visit.
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It sags slightly when there are too many soppy love songs...But the world feels merde, and this charming show brings some much-needed silly delight.
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A talented company of actor-musicians makes fine work of the gently melancholy score...There’s a wonderfully wistful sense to Michael Fentiman’s quietly confident production; it takes gumption for a musical to be this dialled-down.
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Amélie’ is at its best when it’s slightly sending up its own po-faced premise...This production doesn’t fix ‘Amélie the Musical’, but mon dieu it makes it fun.
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It’s an exhilarating experience, Barnaby Race’s arrangements augmented by Michael Fentiman’s enormously inventive direction and Tom Jackson Greaves’s delicate choreography.
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The arrival of the kind-hearted and introverted Parisian on the UK stage is a magical and emotional triumph of adaptation.
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It's the perfect production of a delicious musical that audiences won't want to miss at the Watermill or out on tour.
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Significantly reworked from its Broadway incarnation, Michael Fentiman’s Amélie sticks closer to the tone of Jeunet and Laurant’s beloved 2001 movie, and the result is undeniably charming.
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