LONDON — Standing in a makeshift Paris metro station at London’s Criterion theater, actress Audrey Brisson performs a heartwarming song during a rehearsal for the musical “Amelie.”
It has been over a year since the production was on the stage in London, and as England takes the next step out of lockdown, the musical, based on the hit 2001 French film, will be one of the first to open in the capital’s West End.
“It feels wonderful, it feels heartwarming, it feels exciting, exhilarating. It feels like coming back home,” Brisson, who plays the title role, told Reuters. “I’ve missed storytelling. I have missed seeing in the eyes of the audience that glimmer of forgetting reality …
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