#notes on les mis

[deadgayturtles]

okay some notes from les mis arena tour last night!! 20 may melb/aus

i was so far back it was a little hard to see so the notes are not as great and also anything i alr said on saturday i didn’t type up again xx

- was supposed to be alfie & michael on today, but bradley and killian ended up going on (ngl, i was a little distraught bc i bought today’s tickets just to see alfie and michael, i’m already seeing bradley and killian twice 😭 but i get that shit happens…)

- bradley was significantly less disheveled today?

- rachelle ann go is back as fantine! she is phenomenal. probably the strongest and most elegant fantine i’ve ever seen, she’s angry in parts of at the end of the day and lovely ladies that i feel are usually played as frightened or nervous, but rachelle’s fantine is fierce and defensive? and i LOVE it

- ^ the fact that she keeps her head high for so long/through so much makes it really devastating at the end of lovely ladies, and every time she sings about cosette too — the contrast of her being so soft and vulnerable when just seconds ago she was standing her ground is amazing!! gosh did my heart break during her death

- i also never knew how much i liked the at the end of the day sequence till today? something about it… or maybe i just really like rachelle

- the confrontation was really good today & the way killian sings to fantine is so loving and soft 😭

- my god does bradley just look like a crazed man in these scenes (i’m obsessed)

- when valjean frees javert at the barricades, there is a moment where they are like inches away from each other and ngl i was like are they gonna kiss or… (and valjean says go very softly and i may have been converted to the valvert agenda)

- another thing i’m obsessed with is the set design for this production!!! one thing i couldn’t see from the side the other day is that the wood of the barricade that hangs from the top (it goes up and down throughout) forms the shape of a roof during the intro of the thernardiers, overall it’s all just very clever… at the very end of the musical the colours of the french flag sweep across the audience also, very nice

- the children today were amazing! so adorable and gosh they can sing, cosette has a very sweet voice and gav was so spunky!

- in building a baricade enj has very serious reactions to wtv the other amis say but when grantaire says let’s give them a screwing they’ll never forget enjolras turns his head to him and smiles/smirks at him with like a head nod and his arm stretched out toward r, and r has this like slightly bashful moment???

- when gavroche reveals javert’s identity at the barricades, everyone celebrates gav esp enj and r, and blink and you’ll miss it enj hugs gav then motions gav to go over to grantaire, it was very parents and their son and i will never get over it

- today’s drink with me: marius tries to confront grantaire but enj stops him then goes to r, honestly i was way too far away to tell how enj was feeling about it but he sort of puts his hands on r’s shoulders and is violently shrugged off by him, at this point enj looks very at a loss of what to do and gav starts coming over.

- grantaire turns to look at enj and it’s kind of angry but also desperate? very melancholic anyways and they just stare at each other for awhile before r collapses into enj’s arms (i’m not even exaggerating he collapsed into his arms) and enj kinda just holds r for a bit before once again being violently pushed away (honestly poor e lol he’s just trying his best)

- r turns to go and gav runs to give him a big hug

- enj is just standing where r left him and staring at r go, grantaire does look back at him once before finally leaving with gav

- enj stands there until one of the amis come to collect him :<