Is This Allowed? Amelie Quote Fake?

[Multimatt]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 4:43pm

I noticed this Instagram post by the Amelie Account. I've read the reviews and didn't recognize the quote and I realized the quote is either fake or not sourced correctly. I scanned all of the Huffington Post's review and it doesn't say that anywhere. Is a Broadway show allowed to fake quotes? I don't think so but I might be wrong.

 

Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/BSv6CSbjBzk/?taken-by=ameliebroadway&hl=en

 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 4:45pm

LOL wow. I perused almost every article related to Amélie from HuffPo, and literally none of them contain either of those two words. What the heck?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/review-amelie_us_58e17f62e4b0d804fbbb744c

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amelie-lonely-girl_us_58e30427e4b09deecf0e1993

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amelie-cornering-cute-on-broadway_us_58e3c579e4b09deecf0e1a83 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amelie-musical-phillipa-soo_us_5767fe30e4b0853f8bf1662e

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stage-door-the-play-that-goes-wrong-am%C3%A9lie_us_58e7cd82e4b00dd8e016eb57

[divarobbie2]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 4:49pm

It's probably pulled from this one, from Berkley (when Samantha Barks starred in it): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-stutzin/amelie-at-berkeley-rep-a_b_8135758.html

[Multimatt]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 4:59pm

I scanned the article and found the words Gorgeous and Vibrant but in completely separate paragraphs and both referred to different aspects of the show not the entire show as a whole. So the exact quote was never said and they're using it a quote from the wrong version. They must be so desperate to find quotes. LOL

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:00pm

Multimatt said: "I scanned the article and found the words Gorgeous and Vibrant but in completely separate paragraphs and both referred to different aspects of the show not the entire show as a whole. So the exact quote was never said and they're using it a quote from the wrong version. They must be so desperate to find quotes. LOL"

Not anything new. You must have never fact-checked other mixed review shows before.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:02pm

Often pull quotes come from earlier versions....and condensing two comments into one also happens.  

 

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:06pm

Also, critics raving about a show will go out of their way to provide a good pull quote, and they are equally mindful to not accidentally create one in a more negative review. So, that is why it is more common for them to have to cobble things together.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:12pm

Similarly, I remember seeing that a lot of The Glass Menagerie's pull-quotes came from old reviews of other productions, using quotes that praised the play itself, e.g a Frank Rich quote along the lines of "The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams' masterpiece" or something to that effect. Fair game because it's just quotes about the play, and the play itself is the same. 

Updated On: 4/25/17 at 05:12 PM

[PatrickDC]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 7:09pm

It's deceptive, in my opinion. The one set of quotation marks imply those two words were published just like that, not separately a couple paragraphs apart. 

Or maybe the producers found a guy named Huffington Post and asked him for a quote ala Merrick. LOL 

[Back Row]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 7:10pm

I did find the words "gorgeous" and "vibrant"  in a number of reviews of a recent video transfer of the original movie. Surely, they wouldn't reach that far.....would they?

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 10:14pm

Ouch. The comments on that Instagram post are rough. 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 10:17pm

^ Lol...I was just looking at that!

 

Also: what a terrible picture of  Soo!  She looks 50 years old!

[Big Apple2]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 10:33pm

GreasedLightning said: "Ouch. The comments on that Instagram post are rough. "

LOL. Looking at that picture, they also make it look like the reviewer gave the show 4 stars! 

Updated On: 4/25/17 at 10:33 PM