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Amelie

Amélie is an extraordinary young woman who lives quietly in the world but loudly in her mind.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Romantic Comedy, Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 1990s, 1970s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Amélie is an extrordinary young woman who lives quietly in the world but loudly in her mind. She covertly improvises small but surprising acts of kindness that bring joy and mayhem. But when a chance at love comes her way, Amélie realizes that to find happiness she'll have to risk everything and say what's in her heart.

Be inspired by this imaginative dreamer who finds her voice, discovers the power of connection, and sees possibility around every corner.
REVIEWS:

"Amélie has bushels of imagination!"

 Newsday

"A tuneful love story with a sophisticated score!"

 Deadline

"Amélie abounds with heart!"

 The Telegraph

"Pure Joy! An unabashed crowd-pleaser."

 Entertainment Weekly

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 6F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Local Celebrity Cameo, Ensemble cast, Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Parts for Senior Actors, Expandable casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Multicultural casting, Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: AMÉLIE can be performed by a cast of thirteen actors.

  • YOUNG AMÉLIE POULAIN - 8 or 9; highly imaginative; sees her way through most difficulties; independent-minded in childhood and beyond.
    RAPHAEL POULAIN - Amélie's father, a clinical Army physical; orderly, sees the worst in things; finds his daughter incomprehensible.
    AMANDINE POULAIN - Amélie's mother, a neurotic teacher, sees eye to eye with her husband.
    FLUFFY POULAIN - a goldfish; Young Amélie's best friend.
    BELGIAN TOURIST
    AMÉLIE POULAIN - early 20s; still imaginative, still sees the best in things, still independent, but her independence might be growing into a more permanent state of isolation.
    BLIND BEGGAR - dyspeptic.
    SUZANNE SACRIPANT - owner of Two Windmills Café, one leg shorter than the other.
    GINA WELLS - waitress at Two Windmills; a young widow.
    GEORGETTE CORNUEL - hypochondriacal tobacconist at Two Windmills.
    PHILOMENE de NOIRPOIS - airline hostess, a habitué of Two Windmills, frequently away.
    HIPOLITO JEUNET - unpublished writer, habitué of Two Windmills.
    JOSEPH COTTARD - Gina's misogynistic ex-lover, a plumber, habitué of Two Windmills.
    LUCIEN VILLEPARISIS - a child-like employee of the local grocery.
    COLLIGNON - local grocer.
    NINO QUINCAMPOIX - a loner and artist; unconventional good looks; independent, private.
    COLLIGNON'S MOTHER
    COLLIGNON'S FATHER
    JULIEN DUFAYEL - elderly recluse with degenerative bone disease.
    BRETODEAU - middle-aged man with regrets.
    ELTON JOHN - super star.
    GARDEN GNOME - cast in plaster, knee-high, heavy.
    SYLVIE LEGRANDIN - sex shop worker.
    ADRIEN WELLS - Gina's dead husband.
    MYSTERIOUS MAN

    PARISIANS, PEDDLERS, CUSTOMERS ARE THE TWO WINDMILLS CAFÉ, CUSTOMERS AT THE SEX SHOP, NEWS ANCHORS, REPORTERS, etc.

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