Hello Listeners! We are back with a new Movie Musical episode, and it’s about to get WEIRD. This week we are discovering the magic of a musical comprised fully of recitative.....The Umbrellas of Cherbourg! Join us as we butcher the French language, discuss the plot, and if this movie musical worked as a whole without the use of songs. Also, BONUS CHALLENGE for listeners: say “parapluie” five times fast with correct French pronunciation. Let us know in the comments if you succeeded!  Music Danielle Licari dubbing Genevieve, José Bartel for Guy, Christiane Legrand as Mme. Emery Music by Michel Legrand, libretto by Jacques Demy Released by 20th Century Fox  Show Notes This music set to ice skating by Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, it’s just divine. Composer Michel Legrand performing the theme song “I Will Wait for You” in English in the 1970s. Legrand, again, conducting the Brussels Philharmonic playing the theme music. A brief video essay explaining the French New Wave of the late-50s/early-60s, which undoubtedly had influence on this and many other films of the same time period A show clip of “Umbrellas’” stage production in the West End in 2011, with creative staging and ensemble involvement