Umbrellas Of Cherbourg Promo - Gielgud Theatre, London

"Without doubt one of the West End's most imaginatively staged shows"
(Tweet from Lyn Gardner, Guardian writer)
The innovative theatrical creative force KNEEHIGH return to the West End with their exciting new adaptation of cult French musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy. Featuring the beautiful songs of Michel Legrand including "Watch What Happens" and "I Will Wait for You", and directed by award-winning director Emma Rice, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is making the West End fall in love until the 21st May 2011.
Find out more and enjoy your journey around our website.
www.umbrellasofcherbourg.com
Filmed by Matthew Titterton, AdVision TV

[@TheSteambuff]

I really miss this,saw it 4 times best ever.

[@antoniomonteiro2856]

Tears came to my eyes watching this promo!

[@waltersammarucchi]

One of the best musical I have seen...but people want to see the Lion King and Aladdin ...I sell tickets for shows and I will never get over it...

[@TheSteambuff]

I agree saw it 4 times including the first night at Leicester and miss it,i have never visited a musical more than one time before.

[@Salmagundiii]

Brandeis did a nice production of this in, oh what was it, 2007? Not as polished of course but fun to watch. I think it was an older stage adaptation.

[@alfonsocortes7264]

Was the show ever recorded or preserved

[@charliecharliecharlieesing1058]

I can’t find the soundtrack for this show, is there one?!

[@kamaranaulo7658]

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg- Jacques Demy Soundrack list.

[@ah7910]

Farkin hell. Does everything need to be made into a musical? The high pitched female lead’s voice has pierced my poor eardrums. The addition of Meow Meow as narrator seems superfluous and I’m certain the audience would have a better time watching Meow Meow in a one-woman concert, than watching this very small-scale, amateur looking production. The film is brilliant because it is not ‘self knowing’. It’s not trying to be kitsch or camp. This production is trying to be everything, touching but ironic, sincere but subversive. Three great athletic male dancers makes the main cast look like very uncharismatic, plain vanilla boring English performers who lack the spirit needed for this very French story. The background singer whos voice is better than the main cast isn’t allowed to be cast as the lead, because she’s of a different race - that makes me laugh, as the main leads voice pales in comparison. The whole thing looks very anaemic. I’d rather support fringe productions who have something new to say.