{"id":11212,"date":"2019-12-10T16:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:56:18","slug":"amelie-the-musical-never-captures-the-right-tone-or-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2019\/12\/10\/amelie-the-musical-never-captures-the-right-tone-or-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Amelie the Musical Never Captures the Right Tone (or Tunes)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musical theatre composers always say the test for what songs make the final score is rigorous and specific: They have to serve the story. The story comes first and the music needs to help tell it, whether by driving plot or developing characters. If the best song you\u2019ve ever written doesn\u2019t serve a purpose in the story, or just doesn\u2019t fit the rest of the show, it needs to be cut. (That\u2019s how we got the Hamilton Mixtape.) (Also how we got the incredible song \u201cCome Down From That Tree\u201d which we only know from Audra McDonald\u2019s own recording of it because they wisely cut it from Once on this Island<\/em> because it didn\u2019t fit, even though it is a Best Song Ever.) I feel like most new musicals forget this test. Despite having so many productions in so many cities over the past four years, the London production of Amelie<\/em> is full, packed, of songs that don\u2019t pass the test. And the ones that do serve a purpose don\u2019t fit the rest of the show, as the inconsistent tone only becomes more and more chaotic as the night goes on. It\u2019s overall a poorly constructed show (funny since the actual physical construction\/set design is the strongest part) with a confused purpose.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember much about Amelie<\/em> the movie, except that of course it was beyond whimsical and is probably responsible for the onslaught of manic-pixie-dreamgirls in the culture, or at least pale brunettes whose main personality trait is \u2018quirky\u2019. (PSA: Quirky\/weird is not a personality.) A lot of my criticism of the ridiculous, messy story is likely taken straight from the movie. You might argue then that my problem is with the movie writers, not the creative team of the musical. And to that I\u2019d say, what is this, Pretty Woman<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a>? Your job in adapting a film for the stage is not to copy and paste, failing to fix what needs to be fixed in order to work onstage. Whether this jumbled story worked in the film is completely irrelevant for stage purposes. They may have nailed the proper whimsical, eccentric tone in the movie, but trying the same things to achieve the same things in a different medium is bonkers and has resulted in an almost incoherent musical, with no discernible tone, objective, meaning, or intention.<\/p>\n

With music by Daniel Messe (who wrote the music for the movie\u2026and that score is excellent\u2026so like\u2026ah) and Nathan Tysen, and a book by Craig Lucas (who wrote one of my faves The Light in the Piazza<\/em> which is also about a young girl who is, shall we say, not entirely there (so we were like\u2026is that the only character he likes to write about because that\u2019s problematic)), Amelie<\/em> tells of a young French girl who lives through her imagination after a childhood of seclusion because her parents forking sucked. (Her mom gets killed by a man who jumps off Notre Dame, but he ALSO FIRST SHOOTS HIMSELF? Why? To make sure? What an asshole.) She decides to do a nice thing that makes someone else happy, so then she decides to do more nice things for other people and try to break out of her shell and maybe one day live in the real world. It sounds adorable! Except the things she does FORKING SUCK. Amelie the character is GODDAMN ASSHOLE. Is she supposed to be adorable? Is the whimsy supposed to make up for her assholiness? To quote Chidi-Janet: It does not. Makes it way worse.<\/p>\n

The good deeds Amelie does include: finding a box under her floorboards and deciding to find its owner, which she does remarkably easily. To mark this occasion and her decision to do more good things, she\u2026no, she doesn\u2019t sing a song, her neighbor does, about being the old French man version of Samuel L. Jackson\u2019s Mr Glass character.<\/p>\n

Then, in the caf\u00e9 where she works, there\u2019s a really terrifying man stalking one of her coworkers because they went on a date a year ago. Instead of calling the police and filing for a restraining order, and maybe alerting the French version of the FBI that this is for sure<\/em> a future incel\/supremacist who is going to murder women, Amelie\u2026sets him up with her other friend. For this there is no excuse.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the mean old grocer who is mean to the boy who works for him because he\u2026loves figs? This kid gets a little song about figs. Amelie doesn\u2019t get a solo in the entirety of Act I. In Act II, she feeds the old man fig tart and it somehow makes him nice. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

At some point, she bumps into a man named Nino, who spends his time going through public photo booths, like the kind where you get a strip of 4 photos in black and white. He collects the discarded ones; it\u2019s his art. It\u2019s love at first sight and Amelie sings about how striking this unexpected feeling is\u2026no, Nino sings a song about the photo booth light. One day he loses his collection of photos, and Amelie finds it. Instead of returning it to him, she plays infuriating games with him and keeps his prized possession from him for literally weeks, but I guess he finds that adorable. I was fuming. Give people their shit back. One of the games she plays includes\u2026going to the sex shop where he works, disguising herself as a nun, and then running away scared when she realizes he\u2019s going to come out and see her?? WHAT DID SHE THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN? What is this white nonsense.<\/p>\n

Amid all of this is a weird and tacky obsession with the death of Princess Diana. It\u2019s in poor taste. I get that that\u2019s a big thing in the movie but man alive it felt gross. Amelie imagines a big mega funeral for herself, with Elton John performing\u2026and Act I ends with a HUGE rocking Elton John number that again, did not fit the show AT ALL.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to repeat that Elton John gets a big Act I number but in a musical named after her, Amelie does not have a solo in the entirety of the first act (except for a mini reprise). She doesn\u2019t even seem like the main character at any point. The tone of the show is inconsistent and even contradictory, just all over the place, with big ridiculous silly numbers performed by giant garden gnomes and Elton Johns along with offbeat, artsy introspective songs. I guess with the contrast of styles they wanted to capture some whimsy? But it just feels like nonsense. There\u2019s no magic. There\u2019s one or two great songs in Act II, one with Amelie at the piano, that shows how good this show could have been with more work, and more editing. Or any editing.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, along with the wonderful set design, the cast is doing a great job trying to keep this material afloat. Audrey Brisson\u2019s Amelie looks exactly right and gives a great performance. The show takes a memo from the John Doyle playbook and has the actors doubling as the orchestra, which is impressive, and everyone is pretty uniformly good to great. With the solid cast and design, the production<\/em> is definitely decent, but unlike the Guardian I can\u2019t get past the material.<\/p>\n

INFORMATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Amelie is playing at The Other Palace in London until February 1.<\/p>\n

This theatre has one of those horrible no-center-aisle situations so be sure to book seats on or near the aisles if you want to avoid being the last person out. Bathrooms are outside in the bar area but ALSO down in the secrets bowels of the building, accessed via a door directly at the bottom of the stage on the house left side. It took me several visits to learn about these secret and much better bathrooms down in the hallways between the main house and the studio that no one would usually get to explore. So now I like to sit on the house left\/stage right aisle.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of unnecessary smoking, and whatever herbal cigarettes they are using almost made me pass out. I get that \u2018it\u2019s Paris\u2019, but you\u2019ve shown that in myriad other ways. I dare anyone involved in theatre to defend well the use of cigarettes in a show. It\u2019s never really necessary and instead is a health hazard to all and I don\u2019t understand how it\u2019s legal.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a super loud gunshot that shocked the shirt out of me. There was a small sign with all the trigger warnings on the door to the theatre but the ticket takers were blocking it when we entered, so, great work.<\/p>\n

The first act ended at 20:43 and the show ended at 22:15. I felt every minute of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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