Amelie Today

I've written several times here about the new musical, Amelie, which I saw in a pre-Broadway tryout at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and quite enjoyed.  I posted the video of a song from the show the other week, and though it was nice enough, it was intentionally a pop-arrangement that they did for wider distribution and didn't really give a sensibility of the tone of the show.  I came across another video which does a better job at that, though you still don't a sense of the full staging much since it was done fairly barebones on the Today show.

But it's the star Philliipa Soo (who won a Tony Award for Hamilton -- and is terrific in this show) along with the cast doing a medley of two songs.  So, you get the proper wistful arrangement, and at least a sense of the staging with the cast.

By the way, in a Media Alert, she is scheduled to be a guest tonight on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, so my guess is that she'll perform a song there, as well.  Unless, that is, she says, "Since Bob Elisberg had a video of me tonight on his website, I don't have to sing this evening and you can just go there to watch it."  (My guess though is that she'll sing, "Time is Hard for Dreamers," a verse of which she sings here.  Most of the video is taken up by the larger-cast number, "Tour de France.")