Scenes from the Vault: "Amélie, A New Musical"

[@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices]

Why did this musical not last? It has fricking *_Phillipa Soo_*

[@behappy-fl4vw]

sebastian banguis Pippas is a queen :3

[@lilynotfoundd5987]

IKR

[@KL-sw5xi]

Because the producers chose an inexperienced director who mostly directed plays than musicals. Opening number was re-written.

[@emmajeema]

My guess is that people wanted more serious and hard hitting shows

[@angelikajoy5673]

i think it was out shadowed by all the other musicals that year. it got 0 tony noms and was drowned out by new musicals like dear evan hansen

[@jennygirl2211]

The things I'd do for the pro shot of this run to be released

[@reallyhardy]

same aaaaaa @theatre gods cmon pls

[@jacklim8184]

id kill someone for a proshot of this musical probably

[@diskcarol]

DUDE SAME

[@yulisagarcia2475]

Yes for us who don’t live in newyork

[@aliceloftus]

Omg I’d love it

[@sophiaredwood5825]

Me: *scrolling through recommended, sees this, not intereste-* Me: “I KNOW THAT FACE”

[@-p0ll0-73]

*king george voice* What. Who? *Phillipa Soo* I KNOW HER.

[@Stephanie-rs2lf]

that one mom friend THAT CAN’T BE-

[@-p0ll0-73]

@@Stephanie-rs2lf THAT'S THAT LITTLE GIRL WHO SPOKE TO ME-

[@Stephanie-rs2lf]

that one mom friend ALL THOSE YEARS AGO, WHAT WAS IT ‘95?

[@-p0ll0-73]

@@Stephanie-rs2lf THAT POOR GIRL THEYRE GONNA EAT HER ALIVE

[@lindsiebelt6]

Hair really changes people. Especially her.

[@johnadams4807]

She looks better with long hair

[@what-cz5uh]

John Adams?! omg i love ur name and pfp 😂

[@10Vernonplace]

Her face is not weighed down by a husband fighting a war.

[@amy-om4qk]

Her hair is so pretty in this, honestly

[@-p0ll0-73]

Eliza really made a change lol

[@emmajeema]

This show is so underrated. I actually got to see it and the music and performances were wonderful. Also the orchestra was in the booths it was really cool to actually be able to see them

[@dontmindme7358]

Can you tell me the plot? I really wanna listen to it bc of ya know Pippa but also this isn’t song is beautiful. But I need the context

[@astoreon4569]

@@dontmindme7358 You asked. Long synopsis incoming. 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 monthly 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 Joseph, 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, Julien 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 ("When the Booth Goes Bright"). 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 never to 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 ("Thin Air"). 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 date, 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 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?"). thanks Wikipedia

[@ameliastanham7622]

In the UK version, the ensemble are the orchestra! The immersive feeling as well as the Parisian changes to that version are incredible!

[@elithewholeshebang]

@@astoreon4569 uh, I read every bit of that. Thank you very much! Also, I find it funny that there's a description of the two people Amelie works with, but with the third person they just say their name and end it there 💀

[@marchelapocopio8636]

@@elithewholeshebang LMAO

[@Reginasikes]

I dont know why i cried when she walked through the door

[@dieke8978]

This musical made me cry multiple times and I basically never cry over musicals, books or movies

[@Manat_]

I laughed when her mom died lmfao

[@Manat_]

Bendyditch Cucumberpatch a fat guy fell on her how the hell would I not laugh

[@valeriabadillo]

I found she has that effect on people lol

[@chandler4484]

SimplyManat woe cussin

[@casper189]

Phillipa Soo is my favorite actress she has such a beautiful voice

[@05RoadRunner]

OMG YES Amelie is CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED

[@cuzwhynot253]

FRR

[@isadorac4880]

I’m a simple person, I see Phillipa soo, I click

[@gab_yulan]

Umm me to

[@10Vernonplace]

All broadway shows should be released on Disney+

[@keepingupwiththehamiltons847]

@Amber There is tho!

[@mynameadehsenpai4178]

@@keepingupwiththehamiltons847 bruh dont keep us hanging like this

[@junnosstar]

@@keepingupwiththehamiltons847 ayo drop the link/website name 👁️👁️🤲

[@lemoncake2169]

@@junnosstar BroadwayHD! it has tons for pro shots of plays and musicals

[@lemoncake2169]

@@mynameadehsenpai4178 it’s BroadwayHD!

[@rupkathachakravartty4263]

Amelie- I'm not afraid.. Me- I KNOW WHO I MARRIED

[@cuzwhynot253]

Omg yess

[@borsemil1131]

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT THOUGHT THAT-

[@ARS1508]

Guilty of the same thing 😂😂😂

[@jamescrang2251]

I love this song, but the re-orchestration of it for the UK tour and west end is just 😍😍

[@miyaatherton8326]

IKR!!!!!

[@gracejennings9034]

it wasn’t on the west end, it was an OFF west end run! lmao

[@noodle9993]

God Is A Hamster it now has booked a theatre in the west end after a tour

[@chloecusack6831]

I love Phillipa, but I can't hear it the same now I've heard it in a French accent

[@miyaatherton8326]

@@gracejennings9034 It was in the Other Palace, which is a west end theatre

[@angelikajoy5673]

this musical deserved so much better. it was beautiful

[@wolfycakeplays-.-9226]

HOW DO SHE NOT DROP THE KEYS LET ALONE CATCH IT? Maybe I’m just terrible at catching Edit: OMG AAAAA thank you for all the likes I’ve never gotten more than 10 likes you guys are the best thank you💕💕💕

[@kentinson1670]

Confirmed. My hand-eye coordination is shit. Also, it's Phillipa Soo. Of course she's going to catch it.

[@wolfycakeplays-.-9226]

@@kentinson1670 true XD

[@Mal_nari]

Phillipa Soo is Amazing at her work she’s one of my favorite actress in all of Theatre. I love this Musical already

[@charleymccallie7458]

She is just....utterly captivating, huh? Incredible voice, would love to see more of this musical.

[@michaelparness2896]

I always get chills when she sings “Times are hard for dreamers”

[@jacklim8184]

god i love amelie SO much

[@Violet-hu3mk]

Phillips soo is an incredible human. From hamilton to this, truly inspiring ❤️ thank you for being an inspiration✨☺️

[@dracosapple6603]

That little girl is so lucky to be in a musical with pippa LIKE WHAT THE HECK!!

[@danielrobinson7350]

They replaced the girl with a puppet in UK version.

[@junnosstar]

*You're telling me there's a full pro shot version of Amélie?* *Hand it over or we're gonna have a problem 🔫🤠*

[@themysteriousfox3767]

All musicals have a full pro shot for archive purposes, they're just not going to release them to the public most of the time.

[@HufflepuffsPanda]

THE MOST UNDERRATED MUSICAL

[@roxie4292]

My high school is doing Amelie the musical in the spring and I’m gonna try and audition for Amelie!! Wish me luck when the time comes ❤️❤️

[@kapipte]

Omg did you get it????

[@roxie4292]

@@kapipte I didn’t but it was SOOO FUN!!

[@kapipte]

@@roxie4292 yayyyy that's good!!

[@katiewest9136]

Philipa Soo is a literal queen❤️

[@violetprovencher7135]

I came as soon as I heard

[@Nouno470]

omg Amelie was a beautiful movie holy shit it has a MUSICAL!!!!!

[@sotokeithleengaylee.6249]

I was like she looks familiar... OH MY GOD ITS PHILLIPA SOO WITH BANGS

[@eluniett_]

i fell in love with the ocr (original cast recording) in both the Broadway (this one with Pippa) and the west end (with Audrey Brisson) honestly, the west end version and this one are both phenomenal! The songs manage to get stuck in my head for a while 😭 And omg im so late to this musical since I only became a theatre kid recently 🤭

[@Croissantsss]

This show was so good 😭😭😭 It deserved so much better and I’m so glad I got to see it in LA. They really did it dirty with the revisions they made for Broadway

[@angelikajoy5673]

her voice is so unique

[@funkyearrings]

so happy to have found this video :)

[@kaidou04]

Her voice is so beautiful ❤❤❤

[@allison9260]

Amelie gives me so much serotonin and i don’t know why🤧

[@studydanielle5762]

this song makes my heart warm..

[@yasmin4494]

OMG, never noticed how much phillipa looks like audrey! Love the movie, wonder what the play would be like

[@samanthacrevellari6355]

I'm crying happy tears.

[@Sam-mu4pc]

she is perfect for this role

[@greenteaabee]

im in love with this

[@giovanna4540]

this musical is so underrated!

[@michmontiel488]

Yeah. Phillipa Soo Is the best actress AND singer in world. I love her ♥️

[@mayme4743]

I cant keep watching this 3 minute video where is the full one??

[@yeet8627]

This musical is so underrated

[@neilagangitlog]

I LOOOOVEEE AMELIEEEEE

[@evanhansen724]

0 dislikes Happy noises

[@pickledunicornnugget]

1 sh*tface disliked it 😤

[@evanhansen724]

>:c

[@hiffahyphae6707]

Now it has 5 >:(

[@evanhansen724]

>:c

[@junnosstar]

6 dislikes >:((

[@luciacz3498]

Does anyone know if this musical is still available? I would love to watch this after corona!

[@MM-cp4fu]

I am sorry, they stopped it in 2017, but I would recommend “Little Shop of Horrors” off Broadway. It has Jonathan Groff in it (another Hamilton actor lol) it started in 2019 and they are doing it after coronavirus. Sorry again!

[@eveanna617]

@@MM-cp4fu uhh i don't think Jonathan Groff is in it anymore if I remember correctly, he was replaced with Gideon Glick and then Jeremy Jordan right before Corona hit

[@MM-cp4fu]

Eveanna Oh sry. 😭 kinda wanted to see it with him.

[@junnosstar]

Idk if this is correct but there is a UK tour going on after covid, not sure if this is true tho!

[@aimee2718]

@@eveanna617 Jeremy Jordan is from newsies, right?

[@Mitreme]

Was so sad to see this musical not last. I wanted to see it so bad!

[@potato.pancake]

AHHHHH THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN OUT FOR T W O M O N T H S AND I DIDNT KNOW

[@andhadia]

omg its fricking *philipa soo*

[@stephanieperez392]

Phillipa soo you are so pretty 🤩

[@hollisrut.8759]

This is such a different role than both Natasha and Eliza and yet she play this more childish role wonderfully.

[@josjoererg]

What do I have to do to trade voices with Philippa Soo?

[@humanperson3733]

I would sell my soul to the devil but he's really hard to get hold of

[@namaste_tv]

beautiful song. love from completly stranger❤

[@yourfriendlyneighbour3485]

Its was cute tho💕 I wish I saw it tbh I want to see every Philippa Soo 🌞

[@amelier1715]

Love this Truly it’s great Still hate my name though

[@cymarie_]

Amelie R. Oh heh

[@Probablylani]

Why do musicals with French people seem to never have a French accent? This reminds me of how the Les Mis movie used British accents. It kind of kills me on the inside.

[@JustinCase99999]

Why would French people speak english to begin with? French people speak french to one another you know. Your logic is the same as in those old world war 2 movies where germans speak to one another in english with a german accent. Ridiculous. There's no accent when everybody speaks the same language. In Hamlet, do the actors have a Danish accent? Or an Italian accent in Romeo and Juliet?

[@10Vernonplace]

That would make sense, but I think it would be too hard for the actors and some audience wouldn't understand what they were saying.

[@JustinCase99999]

@@10Vernonplace It would not make more sense than them speaking english with no accent.

[@zoe1482]

Justin Case yes so then it would make sense for them to speak english w “no accent” so why do they make everyone in les mis sound british ?

[@zoe1482]

Raesang Dalu not being a pedant lol just commenting about how it makes no sense 😂

[@ameliegifford1477]

That moment when your name is Amelie

[@Paigeturner7]

Amelie Gifford daughter of A and D by any chance?

[@amelier1715]

Hi Amélie it’s nice to meet you! I’m Amélie :)

[@elisar.5782]

0:44 there is Nino on the train ! I never noticied this

[@rapunzabelle]

How about you pull the whole musical out of the vault?

[@flvwerss7411]

oh the things i would do for this to be turned into a movie like hamilton was

[@caramelastic]

angelica, ELIZA *AND PEGGY*

[@deez_baals]

I bet everyone is just here Pippa and don't actually care about this musical (Its good watch some slime tutorials on it)

[@neilagangitlog]

I LOOOVEEE AMELIEEE

[@barbara2.087]

No I actually fell in love with this show. It’s so incredibly underrated

[@neilagangitlog]

Have u peeps heard of the UK cast recording? It's frikin cool!

[@barbara2.087]

Neil Espinosa I didn’t know there was a UK cast recording! I’ll listen to it! :)

[@allenn.3909]

As much as I agree it's an amazing show, please stop using “slime tutorials”, that's the name given by people who repost videos from the people who filmed them who explicitly mention they don't want their videos being publicly posted... Not that anyone seems to care about the people who film them anyways

[@dominantshxrk4649]

👏

[@andpeggy5693]

Could someone please tell me what this musical's about?

[@angelikajoy5673]

it’s based of the movie with the same name. to put it simply, amelie leaves her troubled household and becomes an anonymous do-gooder

[@andpeggy5693]

@@angelikajoy5673 thank you !

[@ninakonijn436]

@@angelikajoy5673 actually the movie is called 'le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain'

[@staticzero18]

Wait is this musical adapted from the movie called Amèlie?

[@shannonhardy9237]

yes!!

[@jericho8972]

sees this video me: is that phillipa???

[@watchadoinboi3245]

first time hear her voice: "voice sounds familiar.." me read comment: OH MY GOD ITS HER

[@absolutelynot524]

where's the pro shot I'd sell my cousin

[@usraa5111]

how come this only ran for a month

[@etmashorts]

Anybody else think that the chorus sounds similar to the Ouran High school Club theme? I might be imagining it.

[@ntshikeng]

Yes~~ I too hear what you are hearing😅

[@ambarzoe14]

PIPPA PIPPA

[@ashley7305]

I'm getting some strong Throughly Modern Millie vibes here....

[@basicallyimhannah13]

uhm who disliked?

[@20Grosh]

She really cooks an egg with a spoon, huh

[@wendykurniawan1515]

Ah yes eliza hamilton in a new musical

[@lizm2991]

Release a pro shot. I'm begging you.

[@kweichert]

i love philippa AND this song but i always cringe at the very obviously anglicized 'sacre-coeur.' I figure there's probably a good reason behind it, but it's jarring every time.

[@Starburst514]

I think you could say that for a lot of the show :// I love it but some parts just...I don't know felt like they were still in the first draft phase

[@allenn.3909]

Totally recommend UK Tour cast. They can actually pronounce the French words and also more French vibes since it's done in Europe

[@ryanslade8073]

It never made sense to me that she had an American accent

[@junnosstar]

You should listen to the UK cast recording, they have French accents :D (if you haven't already)

[@ryanslade8073]

@@junnosstar I know, its brilliant!

[@reallynicekid]

I am sorry I can see why it did not get another run. It did not get nominated for any Tonys and the score seems very unoriginal. She is stunning and has a gorgeous voice but I found myself spacing out, couldn't follow the lyrics at all. Absolutely nothing unique or to make your ears listen

[@laserbuddha]

I wish they could done something a little bit more interesting with her hair. That hair cut just don't work for her and it's not a good representation of the movie.

[@Jesse-rw5ov]

She cook an egg with a spoon

[@gdjustdoit1]

She’s awful. No better than some girl from a community theater. She’s creepy looking, too.

[@kiandiab6732]

I don't like this at all

[@thatssofetch3481]

Not many did to be honest. Didn’t last long.