#les misérables musical

[carrielion15]

people forget that in the book grantaire was a boxer, gymnast, and a dancer. i’m sorry WHAT

[ijlii]

[starsfromtoulon]

saw les mis on the west end. thénardier confirmed bisexual. big loss for the community. they let madame thénardier say fuck. nothing else interesting happened.

[breadvidence]

The most musically challenging moment in Les Misérables? Definitely the fake sip of water in “On Parole”. That’s why they cut it from the 2012 film, Jackman couldn’t manage it. Less clear why it’s absent from the Complete Symphonic Recording of ’88, unless Gary Morris simply mimed such a polite sippy that the mic didn’t pick it up.

[scarletblob]

Since it's ten years since the second Broadway revival of Les Misérables started previews, have this very ridiculous comparison of people tapping other people's faces with knives :D

((1) The Woman in White, West End production, David Burt as Count Fosco and Yvette Robinson as Marian. (2) Les Misérables, second Broadway revival, Ramin Karimloo as Valjean and Will Swenson as Javert.)

[pontmercysamis]

i saw the national tour of les misérables! and i have THOUGHTS

light spoiler warnings ahead!! ⚠️

-randy jeter and cameron loyal were SO GOOD as valjean and javert, bring him home was so so beautiful and javert’s soliloquy was one of the best i’ve ever heard

-matt crowle playing thenardier was also SO good, thenardiers tend to be a bit over the top for my liking but he was greattt and his dog eats dog was so haunting, him saying “you can be happy or you can be married” took me OUTT

-devin archer and haley dortch have BEAUTIFL voices and were another amazing highlight i couldn’t stop thinking about haley’s fantine, enjolras had a PRESENCE and he was haunting at the barricades, christopher james tamayo playing montparnasse was so slinky and even though he has such a small stage time i couldn’t keep my eyes off him

-I met jake david smith at the stage door !! his marius was the PERFECT blend of book accurate and musical accurate marius, he was silly and awkward at the same time and he was very kind after the show and i had a conversation with him! his empty chairs was of course beautiful but i thought he really stood out in a heart full of love and one day more

-the gun shots are VERY loud

-THE RUNAWAY CART SCENE WAS. INCREDIBLE. I WADNT EXPECTING THE CART OR THE BARRICADE IN LATER SCENES TO BE AS BIG AS THEY WERE

-speaking of the barricade, the final battle was. so good. the deaths of the les amis was. just so good. i think enjolras dying was the most beautiful and tragic thing ive ever seen in my life, (some light spolier) they gave him his spotlight at the top of the barricade and then he just. fell. weightless. and they had enjolras die first and grantaire die last, symbolizing how he was the last to commit to the republic and the parallels were just so good, r reaching out for r and running up the barricade was so. i’m speechless

-another really good scene was javert’s soliloquy, as aforementioned cameron loyal was AMAZING, but the staging of it was also incredible and everyone gasped and cooed and it was just impossible to look away from the stage, the bridge moving in and out was so symbolic and the whole scene was just incredible

-during red and black grantaire checked out enjolras’ ass after the bottle toss bit and it was hilarious

-i really like the book allusions !! the staging for éponine death !! it gives her back some of her book ending with her taking a bullet for marius and i thought it was a nice tidbit, or at the thenardiers inn they had the sergeant de waterloo sign, and kyle adams as grantaire addlibbed a “you’re new here!” to marius

overall, the show was absolutely beautiful and absolutely worth the wait, everyone was phenomenal and seeing it live was an experience that i’ll think about for the rest of my life

[avalaryx]

he only interrupted him like a gazillion times

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[bam-bo0zle]

hello again valvert tumblr

[ruedesfillesducalvaire]

has. has this been done

[touloserrrr]

[nortism]

there’s an alternate universe out there in which the thénardiers are the Serious Villians in the les mis musical and javert is played purely for laughs and i want to live there tbh

[ijlii]

Bring him home 🥹

[breadvidence]

I'm sorry! It's because he goes grₐₐₐaaaAAAᵃᵃᵃAAAaaaₐₐₐaaaAAAᵃᵃᵃce.

[meet-the-thenardiers]

The people who were introduced to Les Misérables through the musicals and just started reading the novel for the first time be like:

"God, why is there so much lore about The Bishop?"

"Oh, so Fantine was actually blonde after all"

"Why do all of Fantine's friends seem to be complete jerks?"

"I HATE YOU, FÉLIX THOLOMYÈS"

"Geez, so Cosette spent five years with the Thénardiers. And the last time Fantine saw her she was just two-years-old"

"What do you mean Éponine has a younger sister? And was Gavroche her brother this whole time?"

"WHY IS THERE SO MUCH THINGS ABOUT WATERLOO?"

"WAIT, NOW THERE ARE FIVE THÉNARDIERS KIDS? AND THEY "RENTED" TWO OF THEM?"