Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company to Stage UK Premiere of AMOUR

The Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company is delighted to present "AMOUR" with performances on Tuesday 23 June at 7.30pm, Friday 26 June at 7.30pm, Saturday 27 June at 2.00pm and Sunday 28 June at 7.30pm. Michel Legrand will be attending the opening performance on Tuesday 23rd June, 7.30pm at the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, Royal Academy of Music.

This wonderful fantasy musical has an English book by Jeremy Sams, music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Didier Van Cauwelaert, who wrote the original French libretto.

Specially reworked by Jeremy Sams for the Musical Theatre Company, the production is directed by Hannah Chissick, with co direction and choreography by Matthew Cole and Musical Supervision from David White. It features graduating students from the Musical Theatre Company and Royal Academy Orchestra.

Set in post war Paris, the plot centres around a shy civil servant, Dusoleil, who lives alone and works in a soul destroying office job under a tyrannical boss, his hardworking attitude is unpopular with his co-workers and to pass the lonely hours he fantasises about Isabelle, the beautiful wife of the prosecutor-general. Magically acquiring the ability to walk through walls, Dusoleil becomes a 'Robin Hood' figure, stealing from the rich to give to the poor and, gaining confidence as Passepartout, he is able to woo Isabelle. Eventually caught he is put on trial and, facing the prosecutor, Isabelle saves the day by revealing the prosecutor general's secret past as a Nazi. Isabelle and Dusoleil finally spend a romantic night together. However their romance is short lived when Dusoleil mistakenly takes tablets prescribed by the doctor, thinking they are aspirin, they remove his magical powers and he becomes stuck, mid leap, in a wall.