Amelie at the Ahmanson — Page 6

Oh, I wasn't saying Soo "should" do My Fair Lady in place of Amélie, RaisedOnMusicals! I, for one, cannot wait to see her in this role on Broadway this spring! I was just saying that I'd love her to take on Eliza Doolittle on Broadway sometime soon, later down the road

Someone PM me if you're interested in reading/critiquing a musical treatment that I plan to develop. It has similar notes as AMELIE, but I'm hoping to avoid that production's mistakes.

I saw this production twice in LA. I didn't love it the first time, but really enjoyed myself the second time. The score isn't great and neither is the book. There really isn't anything great about the show, except it's charm. Don't go in expecting the best thing ever and I guarantee you'll have a good time.

I think it's pretty safe to say that "Amelie" will not be playing for very long in NYC after it opens.

I saw it on closing weekend it was trying to be many things, but wasn't clear on what it was supposed to be. Needs a lot of work.

Well Playwrights and the Pels are both run under the not-for-profit umbrella, so that wouldn't have worked for commercial production. Though perhaps another developmental production would have been a good idea. Most of the criticisms seem to be about the score. Save hiring new writers, I'm not sure what else they could do at this late juncture.

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I was just looking on TICKETMASTER...Oof...

The ads are trying so hard to push HAMILTON re: PHILLIPA SOO... But man... Should she have stayed with THE GREAT COMET?? Why would she want to do AMELIE? THE GREAT COMET has great music, an incredible set and JOSH GROBAN... It's the SHOW OF THE YEAR!

I will say this much, the artwork is SO pretty and colorful...and very flattering to Phillipa's visage.

I watched the footage trailer that Playbill posted and the song that plays behind it is lovely. I probably will catch this with my 54 Below pianist. Girls' night out!

The fact that discount codes are being offered for a new show is not necessarliy predictive of how a show will do once it opens. My guess is that there will be plenty of discount codes available for Come From Away as well, a show with excellent word of mouth. (And by the way, word of mouth for Amelie was not "bad", as someone posted recently. Comments from those who saw it in LA were certainly mixed, and the reviews skewed positive for sure.) In any event, the marketing theory at this point is to try to build an advance with the codes, and then hope that the word of mouth and reviews are both excellent. If they are, the show can go on to become a hit.

If Natasha Pierre was a new show that she hadn't starred in before that she had been offered then I'm sure she would have gone with that. But with Amélie she can say she has played the female lead (yes Eliza was a lead) three times at the age of 26. How many other actors can say the same? That plus being the sole headliner of a Broadway show is a big deal at such a young age. Sure she would have almost definitely got a Tony nomination with Comet, but she still may with Amélie and either way it's very unlikely she would be winning against Midler, Ebersole etc. And it's not like she hasn't already been nominated. Another nomination probably means little in comparison to getting to take on new work, a new character and not go back to a role she was playing five years ago.

Well Natasha was a success off-Broadway so she can already say that. It'd be more like saying she starred in two back-to-back successes and then went back to the first one. All Broadway actors have flops, considering the recoupment rate of Broadway shows.

Well, Great Comet is so creative, and beautifully executed. There is simply nothing else like it. But, Amelie is based a move not millions of people remember or asked to put on Broadway. Like, Bullets Over Broadway, Bridges of Madison County and Honeymoon in Vegas. I don't think anyone cares about a 16 year old movie that is in people's distant memories. Even though it was well received. But, not a huge commercial success, unlike Groundhog Day, which is selling very well.

I think Ms. Soo wants to be similar to Ms. Menzel in terms of creating characters from scratch and doing new material. She is good in the part, but I did not enjoy the show overall. Maybe they will make positive changes before opening because every single website I go to, there is she is, urging me to buy tickets. If you look at Tickemaster, it's really not selling well at all.

Updated On: 2/10/17 at 06:08 PM

@Ado.. you have the right attitude for this show. The direction was workman like. But the show is a fun enough diversion. I still don't know why it is going to broadway. But you will have a pleasant evening.