#michael ball

[mondschein14]

my obsession has reached the level of me rewatching the 2 1/2 hour musical just to look at the people sitting in the background

[operafantomet]

MY CHEMICAL RAOULMANCE (...hussarlicious...!)

Vale Ridout and Corps de Ballet, Hamburg

Steve Barton, West End

Hwang Gun Ha, Seoul

Jemal Felix, West End revival

Fred Silveira and ensemble, Sao Paulo

Joe Griffiths-Brown, West End revival

Jay Armstrong Johnson, Broadway

Joe Friffiths-Brown, West End revival

Michael Ball and Rebecca Caine, West End

Jeremy Taylor, West End

Jeremy Hays, Broadway

Alexander Lewis, World Tour

Greg Mills, Kyle Barisich, Carrington Vilmonth, Paul Schaefer and Jeremy Stolle, Broadway

[artfulacrostic]

some of my favorite moments from the 1995 10th Anniversary Concert of Les Miserables bc it's BARRICADE DAY and thus tis the season:

the convicts during Look Down all being Valjeans from different countries

the bishop M is baby faced and has an angelic voice

the clips from the fully staged show that they insert whenever there is too long of an instrumental/to explain things

colm wilkinson and philip quast's confrontation makes me want to chew on my laptop screen. so good. so crisp

baby cosette gets spooked by a balloon popping during castle on a cloud but barely flinches and keeps singing

the entire cast in the background of master of the house bopping back and forth in time. they are so here for it and it's amazing

philip quast's stars. he's so fucking good. i'm insane about him

michael maguire as enjolras's little happy dance when gavroche tells them that lamarque is dead

michael ball as marius somehow gives himself literally heart eyes whenever he talks about cosette. i can see them. it's so funny

during a heart full of love, colm wilkinson and philip quast are so invested in the background. they're leaning over to whisper to each other. they are besties

lea salonga as eponine delivers "i know this house i tell you, there's nothing here for you. just the old man and the girl, they live ordinary lives" like a GODDESS she is EVERYTHING

michael ball surreptitiously wiping his sweat on lea salonga's hair during her death scene. mans is dying a little

drink with me features anthony crivello as a fucking stellar grantaire, and after his verse, enj comes over and puts his hand on his shoulder to comfort him for a very long time. complete with a lingering touch on the arm and everything. fantastic exr crumbs 👍

the clips from the full show of the final battle are hilarious. completely different cast (though only obvious to insane people like us.)

highlights include one of les amis right on the middle of the barricade doing like. a backwards worm he's so into his death throes. he always has me losing my shit

empty chairs at empty tables includes the fucking cruel choice to have the entire les amis cast of actors line up on each side of michael ball and just a step behind so that they're in shadows, all staring sadly at him for the whole song. gives the impression of all the ghosts of marius's dead friends looking on from the afterlife and demanding answers. heart wrenching. THIS IS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A CONCERT, WHY ARE U DOING STAGING LIKE THIS

beggars at the feast has everyone in the background clapping/tapping along again. love seeing the thenardiers get their due appreciation

the 17 valjeans from other international productions enter after the finale and they all have their gavroches holding their country flags it's so fucking cute

and of course final encore with all the additional valjeans and the whole cast is fucking ACES

ANYWAY if ur looking for a production to watch that is good af this is the top of my list even though it isn't fully staged. it's sooooo. it's some good fucking food. happy barricade day!!

[rainsofcamelot]

REMEMBER WHEN MICHAEL BALL

[cometomecosette]

Some more rare pictures from the original London cast, 1985:

Michael Ball as Marius and Frances Ruffelle as Éponine

[motions1ckn3ss]

i bought tickets for the les mis arena world tour the moment they went on sale without knowing the cast and now they've announced the cast and i'm seeing alfie boe and michael ball and i love alfie boe but i can't STAND michael ball and i love killian donnelly and bradley jaden so it looks like i'm going to have to buy more tickets and go twice in the name of science

[could-be-calliope]

Shout out to the person in YouTube who did an absolutely stellar job painstaking editing the Jonas out of ABC cafe/red and black and replacing him with Michael Ball because that can't have been easy and it sounds absolutely seamless

[eurovisionart]

🇬🇧 Michael Ball - One Step Out of Time

[lilyvonk]

Long time no post- I have to admit I've been feeling pretty alienated from most social media platforms, more than used to be normal for me anyway. I do miss sharing my art with friends and the few people who stumble on it, so I scanned a few things I had laying around. Hope you're all holding up ok out there ❤️

[javertwenttoheaven]

I will forever be upset that the camera isn't moved just a little bit more to the left during TAC's Master of the House.

[vintageurovision]

British singer and actor Michael Ball performs during the dress rehearsal for the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest, in Malmö, Sweden on 9 May that year. He was placed second in the contest for the United Kingdom with 'One Step Out of Time'. [Photo: Peter Harding]

[mondschein14]

the 10th anniversary concert is all I can think about

[operafantomet]

RAOUL WITH DARK BOWTIE IN THE MANAGERS SCENES

Michael Ball, West End 1987-1988 (white waistcoat)

Steve Barton, West End 1986-1987 (white waistcoat)

John Riddle, Broadway 2023 (dark waistcoat)

Michael Cormick, West End 1988-1989 (white waistcoat)

Michael Ball, West End 1987-1988 (white waistcoat)

David Firth, West End 1986-1988 (white waistcoat)

Steve Barton, West End 1986-1987 (white waistcoat)

Jemal Felix, West End revival 2021-2022 (dark waistcoat)

Connor Carson, West End revival 2022-2023 (dark waistcoat)

[richardarmitagefanpage]

New interview with Richard for BBC Radio 2 about Obsession and Geneva.

[rainsofcamelot]

I LOVE IT when javert actors play him UNHINGED during the soliloquy!!!!!!

This man is having THE BIGGEST CRISIS OF HIS ENTIRE LIFE. HE IS ABOUT TO LITERALLY KILL HIMSELF. i need him to be unhinged!!!!!!

[cometomecosette]

A rare picture from the original London cast of Les Misérables, 1985:

Alun Armstrong as Thénardier, Michael Ball as Marius, Susan Jane Tanner as Mme. Thénardier