The run closed November 3, 2002
- Opened
- October 20, 2002
- Closed
- November 3, 2002
- Performances
- 17
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Music Box Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 347th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it9 named
Lewis Cleale
Sarah Litzsinger
Nora Mae Lyng
6 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- James Lapine
- Choreographer
- Jane Comfort
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Amour is a musical fantasy with an English book and lyrics by Jeremy Sams, music by Michel Legrand, and original French lyrics by Didier Van Cauwelaert, who also wrote the original French libretto. The musical is adapted from the 1943 short story Le Passe-Muraille by Marcel Aymé and set in Paris shortly after World War II. It centers on a shy, unassuming clerk who develops the ability to walk through walls, and who challenges himself to stick to his moral center and change others' lives, and his own, as a result.
An English-language production was mounted in 2002 on Broadway as Amour ; Alan Riding of the New York Times commented, ‘A musical comedy that does well in France is already something of an occasion. A French musical comedy that reaches Broadway – well,’ Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 372
- Additional notable plays were “Death-trap,” “Crucifer of Blood,’ James Earl Jones as “Paul Robeson,” “Players,” “The Water Engine,” “The Mighty Gents,” “13 Rue de l’Amour,” and revivals of “Once in a Lifetime,” “Man and Superman” and “The Inspector General.” A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860 1985 Blum, p. 439
- “Isle D’Amour” by a newcomer named Earl Carroll. Revue A Nostalgic Reprise of the Great Broadway Period Baral Robert Author 1st E, p. 55
- Amour, which opened at the Music Box in October, endeavored to seduce Broadway theatergoers with whimsy. Whimsy, however, is a very perishable comedic commodity. Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Singer Barry 1957 New Yo, p. 286
- “There’s an audition in New York. Le Passe Muraille [later renamed Amour] directed by James Lapine.” Boom! “Coming over from Paris with music by Michel Legrand!” I had just sung a bunch of Michel Legrand at The Carlyle. Here S To the Ladies Conversations With More of the Great Eddie Shapiro Oxford U, p. 198
- Schoenfeld wanted to be seen as a producer in his own right, but that was never his strength. He took the lead in producing Amour, a musical by Michel Legrand, in 2002, but it closed after just two weeks. Razzle Dazzle the Battle For Broadway Michael Riedel 2015 Simon Schuster Limited, p. 431
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Amour at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.