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This afternoon’s performance will be the last chance Broadway audiences have to see Amélie, a sweetheart of a musical that left most critics, and most tickets, unmoved following its opening last month at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The show, with a score by Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen and book by Craig Lucas, closes…

Amélie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's good-natured 2001 film, was produced for an estimated $10.7 million and has grossed $132 million to date. That’s not bad for a sentimental fantasy about a painfully shy young woman – the film made an indie star of Audrey Tautou – who is inspired after the death of Princess Diana to spread…

Dates and theaters have been set for Amélie, A New Musical, with Hamilton star and Tony nominee Philipa Soo in the title role. Following its 2015 world premiere at the Berkeley Rep, the show will now begin a pre-Broadway run December 4 at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre, where it will run through January 15. It will…

Here’s one of the odder, if more enlightened, Broadway promotions we’ve seen: Anyone paying full price for a pair of orchestra or front-mezzanine seats (that’s $278 the pair, for non-premium seating) to the upcoming revival of The Heidi Chronicles, starring Elisabeth Moss, will be offered a one-year membership to the…