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daydreams about the beautiful
Isabelle. Isabelle is kept locked away by her controlling husband, the prosecutor-general with an unsavory past. When Dusoleil miraculously gains the ability to walk through walls, he begins to steal from the rich and give to the poor. He also gains the self-confidence to woo Isabelle, who is intrigued by the news stories about Passepartout, a mysterious criminal who can walk through walls.
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In Paris after World War II, a shy, unassuming "invisible" civil servant, Dusoleil, lives alone and works in a dreary office under a tyrannical boss. His lazy co-workers are unhappy because
Dusoleil is a hard worker who finishes his work early. To pass the time, he writes letters to his mother and
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from May 2 to June 8, 2019, with direction from Hannah
Chissick, choreography by Matt Cole, musical direction by Jordan Li-Smith and designed by Adrian Gee. The production starred Gary Tushaw as Dusoleil, Anna O'Byrne as Isabelle and Alasdair Harvey as the Prosecutor, alongside Elissa Churchill,
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wrote: "The lyrics are mostly pedestrian and uninvolving, and they make the already stock characters even more one-dimensional." He does note that "...while there is a lot to admire in this musical, it's too much of a chamber operetta to compete with the likes of 'Hairspray' and 'La Boheme'."
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Dusoleil's life, as well as
Isabelle's and the other characters, takes a rich and, for a while, romantic turn. As Dusoleil admits to being Passepartout, he is put on trial in front of the prosecutor. Before the trial progresses, Isabelle reveals her husband's secret—that he was a
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collaborator. Dusoleil is pardoned and he spends one romantic night with
Isabelle. When he takes pills that the doctor has given him, mistaking them for aspirin, he loses his magic power. He becomes stuck mid-leap in a wall, and his memory is carried on in story and song.
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reviewer, however, wrote: "Broadway's Music Box
Theatre may have found its most ideal tenant in quite a while. The delightful little jewel box of a musical, Amour, ...deserves a lengthy stay there, where it may enchant audiences for a long time to come." Cary Wong in
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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.
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394:"Monsieur Passepartout" – Newsvendor, Painter, Whore, Madeleine and Policemen
313:"henchmen" hired by the prosecutor to keep the people of Montmartre in check
734:"Theater Review: A French Milquetoast's Talent Lights the Fuse of Mischief"
205:. The show closed after 17 performances and 31 previews. The cast included
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a self-proclaimed "ordinary guy" who discovers he can walk through walls
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