![]() Her upbringing has left her with a fear of human connection, but when she discovers a box of keepsakes in her garret belonging to a previous occupant, she resolves to find him and reunite him with his treasures. Her bereaved, distant father Raphael builds a shrine to his wife with a garden gnome at its centre and makes a poor job of raising his lonely little daughter, until she escapes to find work as a waitress in a Parisian café full of eccentric bohemians. Her mother Andamine disappears from the picture early on thanks, with sad topical irony, to an unfortunate incident at Notre Dame involving the suicide of a Canadian tourist. The paranoid couple even put pay to her pet goldfish Fluffy. Young Amélie is brought up by eccentric, neurotic parents who confine her at home, wrongly believing that her health is delicate. The creators of the musical, Craig Lucas (book), Daniel Messé (music) and Nathan Tysen (lyrics with Messé) have reworked the material with the Watermill cast since its 2017 Broadway run, restoring the much-loved delicate whimsicality of the film.ĭirector Michael Fentiman marshals a superb team to realise a collective vision of the French capital that manages to go beyond cliché to tell a story that combines uncertainty and misunderstanding with joy and connection. Indeed, the cathedral features in a key scene in this love letter to late 20th century Paris just as it did in the film. With poignant synchronicity, the musical adaptation of Amélie has its UK premiere during a week when the world watched in horror as Notre Dame burned.
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