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GUYS!! I saw Les Mis! In Munich!!!
Let's recap!
The Cast:
Daniel Gutmann as Javert. He was incredible. Definitely my personal highlight. Everytime he sang his voice just ROARED. And he was menacing holy shit. Aggggggh I'm normal about him
Barbara Obermeier as Eponine. When I first heard her sing in Act 1, I knew she was gonna kill it in Act 2. And she did.
Merlin Farcel aka Enjolras. His voice was so perfect I LOVED all the high notes, BUT:
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The beard. Sorry, but in my world Enjolras doesn't have a beard. Plus, it makes him look like Peter Maffay
Madame Thenardier was PERFECT (I don't remember who played her that night😭) She was so funny and the audience really loved her.
The Music:
At first, I felt a bit underwhelmed by the orchestra. To be fair, I listened to the 10th anniversary recording SO much, that I really got used to that grand orchestra sound.
There was an electric guitar and at one point an electric bass when Javert sang, which I really loved.
During Master of the House/ Beggars at the Feast you could really see the orchestra bopping their heads and having fun and that made me very happy
I really loved the brass section, they really stood out (That French Hurn during On My Own????!)
The Costumes:
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I don't know why, but the Les Amis were wearing these caps all the time. I have never seen a production with them in it. Is this a historically accurate thing?? I didn't really like them, they looked very plastic/shiny and fell out of place
I cannot find a picture but in the beginning of Act 1 Valjean wore a pink vest and then a purple coat which both looked very cheap and which I both didn't like (maybe it was because of the light? The colors felt very unnatural)
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Eponine's outfit. At first I thought it didn't look shabby enough. But it looks so badass I'll let it pass
Why don't you let Enjolras wear his red vest??
What is Marius wearing? Goofy boy
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Big Mad Hatter vibes from Thenardier. I loved his and the Patron Minettes outifits, they looked very edgy
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This is perfect. Perfect. I only wished he had undone his hair for Javert's Suicide (he did, but only for the last 10 seconds)
The Stage:
The stage had a turning middle and stairs that could be moved around, similar like in Hamilton.
They did a cool transition with young Cosette walking up the stairs and old Cosette walking down
Also, they had some cool staging with buildings moving around for Stars. But I feel like there was almost a bit too much happening in the background for this song.
I don't know why they didn't have the Barricades turn and show Enjolras hang upside down. It's such a cool/tragic moment!
During the Barricade scenes, the stage sometimes felt a bit empty. I mean, there were always like 15 people standing around. Maybe the Barricades were to small/not high enough
Empty chairs at empty tables. Where were the empty chairs and empty tables??
In Everyday/A Heart Full of Love Reprise single leaves started falling down on the stage (Like Valjean entering the Fall/Winter of his life) I loved that.
Also, the parallel of Marius learning to walk again using a cane, and Valjean loosing his ability to walk using a cane. I never noticed this before!
There are SO many cool things about the staging I could talk about here. But I want to mention some other topics as well:
The "Spirit" of the Show:
There wasn't a single French flag to be seen. Some red ones, but no French flags.
In the trailer, the director said he wanted to create a more universal setting, speaking to everyone in the audience
I think that's a great sentiment but like. Everyone has French names. There were titles above the stage telling us the year and locations (Places in France) of the events. The title of the show is French.
So I think adding the flags (aka a bit more French nationalism?) would have seemed a lot more convincing for the cause of the students and the whole spirit of the show
But maybe this also has to do with the show being in German? I don't know and I'd really like to discuss it. Maybe someone here made a similar experience seeing it in another language
And last, but MOST importantly:
What about Valvert and Enjoltaire?
In the Confrontation, Javert and Valjean got really close to each other. And I mean fighting each other and then stopping just to sing directly into each other's faces.
Instead of running infront of the court in Who Am I, Valjean just goes to Javert and rips his shirt open? Okay, go off I guess
In Drink with Me, we have a platonic forehead touch between Enjolras and Grantaire. Sadly, that's all I noticed between them 😔
Also, the fact that Grantaire is supposed to be ugly/shabby/a drinker/a sceptic got totally lost, which really takes away from his character.
Conclusion:
All the actors were good, some of them were FANTASTIC. I'd watch it again just for the guy playing Javert, if I could. God, he was SO GOOD
The music was all it should be, maybe a bit too reserved (but again, this might be because I am so used to the 10th anniversary concert)
I really loved some costumes and I also really disliked some
The staging was great, some choices confused me (flags, barricades etc.)
Would I watch it again?
Absolutely!
To be clear, some of the things here might sound more negative than I actually mean. It's just that I have watched SO many different productions online, that I fixated on all the great performances and how I think they should be done. Of course everyone has different opinions here.
Okay thanks for reading if you made it here. Have a great day!
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The University of Pennsylvania has installed a sculpture of a Black female figure at its main entrance. "Brick House," created by prominent Black artist Simone Leigh, has been unveiled as the U.S. welcomes its first Black female vice president elect and as college campuses across the country hear calls to become more inclusive.
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“Its enthralling presence of Black beauty with artistic references to the African diaspora will draw the attention of everyone walking or driving past one of the most traveled corners in West Philadelphia,” Penn president Amy Gutmann said of the piece now sitting at the 34th and Walnut Streets gateway to the College Green.
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Penn's edition was the second of its kind by Leigh and was gifted to the university by New York City alumni couple Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman. “It’s sweet poetry that this work is being installed within a week of this country electing its first female vice president and its first vice president of color," Glenn said.
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“It was a celebration of black womanhood that we hadn’t really heard,” Leigh told the New York Times in 2018. In a Penn statement, she added, “Brick House is not a portrait. It brings disparate forms together in a way that collapses time. I would describe this way of building sculpture as ‘critical fabulation.’”
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"Brick House" will be an important addition to Penn’s iconography, said Joann Mitchell, senior vice president for institutional affairs and chief diversity officer. “In some ways, it’s a path breaking move for campus and one that will both add a really powerful and prominent statement about the commitment to inclusion but also be one that hopefully sparks a lot of conversations.”
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NATO launches Air Defender 23, the largest aerial exercise in its history
In the multinational exercise Air Defender 23, 25 nations come together to train in joint air operations in the skies of Europe.
Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 12/06/2023 - 12:00 in Military
From June 12 to 23, up to 10,000 participants from 25 nations, along with 250 aircraft, will participate in Air Defender 23, NATO's largest air training exercise in European airspace, under the leadership of the German Air Force.
Air Defender 23 aims to demonstrate the unity of its members in the face of potential threats, namely from Russia.
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The following nations are participating: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. Aircraft from partner nations will be parked at various locations in Germany during the exercise.
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About 10,000 military personnel are participating in the exercise. Among the 250 aircraft involved are 23 different types of aircraft. About 100 of these aircraft come from 42 federal states of the United States and are being deployed in Europe. The U.S. National Air Guard supplies most of them.
The three main hubs during Air Defender 23 are Schleswig/Hohn, Wunstorf and Lechfeld. The exercises will be carried out mainly in three aerial spaces over Germany. Exercise areas are based on areas that have been used by the German Air Force for routine training for decades. However, they have been expanded to the Air Defender 23 and are partially connected by corridors.
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Flight altitudes during Air Defender in the three training areas range from 2,500 to 15,000 meters or more. No mission is usually flown below that. Refueling usually occurs at altitudes ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 meters. Jet fighter training flights take place at altitudes of 2,500 or 3,000 meters, depending on the activated airspace.
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Low-level flights by jets and transport aircraft are planned in a part of the eastern air exercise area known as Fight 1. This training area extends to the north of Brandenburg, parts of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Baltic Sea. The airspace is reserved for these low-level flights for three hours in a row every day from June 12 to 22. In addition, sporadic low-level flights will take place in the military training areas of Baumholder and Grafenwoehr.
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The exercise was projected in 2018, in part in response to the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, although it does not specifically target anyone, explained General Ingo Gerhartz, head of the German Air Force, during the presentation of the exercise.
NATO is determined to defend “every centimeter” of its territory, but “no flight will be sent, for example, to Kaliningrad,” the Russian enclave bordering Poland and Lithuania, members of NATO, assured General Gerhartz. "We are a defensive alliance and this is how this exercise is planned," emphasized the general.
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However, these maneuvers will also aim to send a message, in particular to Russia, as the United States Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann explained to the press: “I would be very surprised if a world leader did not notice what he shows in terms of the spirit of this alliance, which means the strength of this alliance, and this includes Mr. Putin,” the Russian president, she argued.
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The exercise will involve operational and tactical training, mainly in Germany, but also in the Czech Republic, Estonia and Latvia. The exercise aims to "complete the permanent presence of the United States in Europe" and provide training "on a larger scale than is normally performed on the continent," said General Michael Loh, director of the U.S. National Air Guard. "It is about establishing what it means to face a great power in the context of competition between great powers". There are no plans at this stage to make "Air Defender" a regular exercise, Gutmann said. But, she added, "we don't want this exercise to be the last".
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A Day of Two Anniversaries: 75th Berlin Airlift/60th “Ich bin ein Berliner” Speech
On a sunny June evening, the John-F.-Kennedy-Platz in front of Berlin’s Schöneberg City Hall set the scene for a celebration of two significant anniversaries in Germany’s post-war history.
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Photograph: Scene in front of the Schöneberg City Hall, June 24, 2023. Photo: Edith Haimberger. Public domain.
After 5 p.m., guests trickled into the VIP area to be served water and Bouvet sparkling wine. Locals had gathered in greater numbers, standing and sitting in the square. A small wedding party drifted by from the registry office at the far side of the City Hall. And the US Air Forces in Europe Jazz-Band from Ramstein began playing jazz and swing music.
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Mayor Kai Wegner took the stage next. [Two or three people booed. So perhaps he was being ironical when he said “Vielen Dank für die freundliche Begrüßung” (’Thank you very much for the friendly welcome.’).]
Wegner himself is too young to have been an eyewitness. Yet his father joined the almost 500,000 people who gathered before the City Hall to hear President John F. Kennedy on June 26, 1963. It was a troubled time, but Kennedy’s words inspired.
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Photograph: Scene in front of the Schöneberg City Hall, June 24, 2023. Trees belonging to the Rudolph-Wilde-Park. Photo: Edith Haimberger. Public domain.
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MIREILLE TORJMAN                                                                      CASE NO.:     TBD
1143 Wrightswynde Ct                                                                                                          
Wesley Chapel, FL 33543
 
Plaintiff
           
V.
 
Amy Gutmann, Chair Bioethics Committee
Office of President Univ of Penn
1 College Hall Room 100
Phila, PA 19104
and in HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY,
 
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500 Fifth Street Suite K529
Washington, DC 20418
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500 Fifth Street 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20418
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Diane E. Griffin Chair, National Academy of Science         
Committee Science Technology Intelligence Professionals
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The University of Pennsylvania has installed a sculpture of a Black female figure at its main entrance. "Brick House," created by prominent Black artist Simone Leigh, has been unveiled as the U.S. welcomes its first Black female vice president elect and as college campuses across the country hear calls to become more inclusive.
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“Its enthralling presence of Black beauty with artistic references to the African diaspora will draw the attention of everyone walking or driving past one of the most traveled corners in West Philadelphia,” Penn president Amy Gutmann said of the piece now sitting at the 34th and Walnut Streets gateway to the College Green.
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Penn's edition was the second of its kind by Leigh and was gifted to the university by New York City alumni couple Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman. “It’s sweet poetry that this work is being installed within a week of this country electing its first female vice president and its first vice president of color," Glenn said.
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“It was a celebration of black womanhood that we hadn’t really heard,” Leigh told the New York Times in 2018. In a Penn statement, she added, “Brick House is not a portrait. It brings disparate forms together in a way that collapses time. I would describe this way of building sculpture as ‘critical fabulation.’”
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"Brick House" will be an important addition to Penn’s iconography, said Joann Mitchell, senior vice president for institutional affairs and chief diversity officer. “In some ways, it’s a path breaking move for campus and one that will both add a really powerful and prominent statement about the commitment to inclusion but also be one that hopefully sparks a lot of conversations.”
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