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Post by kimbahorel on Oct 17, 2018 19:39:49 GMT
YEAH. Why doesn't Marius just GO AROUND the gate Rue Plumet, I say. Exactly! And have you noticed that once a character walks off the stage nobody acknowledges they're still there any more? Why doesn't Jean Valjean just stand in the wings until Javert gets bored of not being able to find him? Why does JVJ never notice that Thenardier and the students were convicts with him? Why does no one realise Fantine comes back from the dead and fights on the barricade? Or Enjolras is a server at Marius' wedding. Why does no one realise people singing/talking to themselves? |
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Post by talkstageytome on Oct 18, 2018 0:01:19 GMT
Also, little Cosette is in the show for what, 5 mins? And she's called 'Cosette' plenty of times. And then when she grows up the first you see of her she's following her dad around and she's referred to by name pretty sharpish too. I just don't see how it's confusing for audiences who are paying attention, or how it trivialises the story at all. Both actresses are playing Cosette. That's literally all there is to it?
It's not like the Little Cosette and Little Eponines have EVER been cast to be exact feature by feature match-up twins of their older counter parts anyway.
It's seems pretty obvious to me that it doesn't bother most people on this board, audiences aren't boycotting the show and it's been cast inclusively for years across continents. It's unlikely to change so the solution to your issue might have to be 'live with it'.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2018 9:04:12 GMT
Posts removed. Try to make a point without personal insults, please.
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Post by ali973 on Oct 19, 2018 9:29:36 GMT
YEAH. Why doesn't Marius just GO AROUND the gate Rue Plumet, I say. Flashback to 1992 when my mom turned to my sister and made that. exact. same. comment. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Oct 19, 2018 14:23:42 GMT
Haha! My dad actually said this to me in 1995.
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Post by daisy24601 on Oct 19, 2018 19:27:14 GMT
My bro said that the first time we saw it. We have hilarious relatives!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2018 21:34:46 GMT
I just found a pro-shot of the Madrid production from 2011 and it feels like Christmas!
The brilliant Gerónimo Rauch as Valjean. Don't know who plays Javert here but it is the alternate.
I've seen most if this cast live at some point. Love Guido Balzaretti as Marius and Lydia Fairen as Eponine (I also saw them as Gabe in Next to Normal and Wednesday in Addams Family). And Eva Diago is the funniest Mme Thenardier I've ever seen.
Enjoy, even if it's not in English.
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Post by David J on Oct 27, 2018 21:47:22 GMT
I just found a pro-shot of the Madrid production from 2011 and it feels like Christmas! The brilliant Gerónimo Rauch as Valjean. Don't know who plays Javert here but it is the alternate. I've seen most if this cast live at some point. Love Guido Balzaretti as Marius and Lydia Fairen as Eponine (I also saw them as Gabe in Next to Normal and Wednesday in Addams Family). And Eva Diago is the funniest Mme Thenardier I've ever seen. Enjoy, even if it's not in English. It is unfortunate though that it had to catch the one time Enjorlas was unable to fly the flag in time. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 9:05:08 GMT
The brilliant Gerónimo Rauch as Valjean. Don't know who plays Javert here but it is the alternate. I've seen most if this cast live at some point. Love Guido Balzaretti as Marius and Lydia Fairen as Eponine (I also saw them as Gabe in Next to Normal and Wednesday in Addams Family). And Eva Diago is the funniest Mme Thenardier I've ever seen. Enjoy, even if it's not in English.
Javert in the video is David Ordinas.
This production, and the subsequent Spanish tour, is the perfect example of how much richer the score sounds when sung by more mature voices. I don't know the exact ages of the cast, but they were not drama school graduates. The last time I saw this production was in Barcelona in 2014, and it was definitely the strongest cast/performance of Les Mis I have ever seen.
Daniel Diges (Enjolras in the video) is now playing Valjean in Mexico (having also done it in Portuguese in Brazil).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 11:29:41 GMT
The brilliant Gerónimo Rauch as Valjean. Don't know who plays Javert here but it is the alternate. I've seen most if this cast live at some point. Love Guido Balzaretti as Marius and Lydia Fairen as Eponine (I also saw them as Gabe in Next to Normal and Wednesday in Addams Family). And Eva Diago is the funniest Mme Thenardier I've ever seen. Enjoy, even if it's not in English.
Javert in the video is David Ordinas.
This production, and the subsequent Spanish tour, is the perfect example of how much richer the score sounds when sung by more mature voices. I don't know the exact ages of the cast, but they were not drama school graduates. The last time I saw this production was in Barcelona in 2014, and it was definitely the strongest cast/performance of Les Mis I have ever seen.
Daniel Diges (Enjolras in the video) is now playing Valjean in Mexico (having also done it in Portuguese in Brazil).
Thanks, I had no idea who that was! I saw Ignasi Vidal twice and he was sensational. I loved the cast too. It was supposed to tour again but got canceled for some reason. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 12:08:38 GMT
Javert in the video is David Ordinas.
This production, and the subsequent Spanish tour, is the perfect example of how much richer the score sounds when sung by more mature voices. I don't know the exact ages of the cast, but they were not drama school graduates. The last time I saw this production was in Barcelona in 2014, and it was definitely the strongest cast/performance of Les Mis I have ever seen.
Daniel Diges (Enjolras in the video) is now playing Valjean in Mexico (having also done it in Portuguese in Brazil).
Thanks, I had no idea who that was! I saw Ignasi Vidal twice and he was sensational. I loved the cast too. It was supposed to tour again but got canceled for some reason.
I saw Ignasi Vidal, and agree he was sensational (he also does the singing voice of the Beast in the Spanish version of the new Beauty and the Beast film).
Yes, I think the plan was to bring the show back to Madrid (to the Teatro Coliseum) from September 2015, with a few weeks first in Malaga and Barcelona in the July and August (I had tickets for Barcelona). But they announced in the May that it was cancelled. I think it was a problem with the Coliseum in Madrid (disagreement between the theatre's previous owners/city council), so there was no point in remounting the production for just a few weeks in each Malaga and Barcelona, as Madrid was the main run.
Stage Entertainment later bought the Coliseum and reopened it with Mamma Mia, and sadly there has been no more talk of Les Mis returning.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 12:54:45 GMT
I had tickets too! I'm sure it will return some day tho.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 15:46:34 GMT
I had tickets too! I'm sure it will return some day tho. Hopefully. The 2010 Madrid production (and I'm guessing Spanish tour) used the set from the 25th Anniversary UK Tour. I don't know if this is the same set that is going to be used again for the upcoming UK tour, but if so, it will be a few years before it's available again for Spain. |
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Post by daisy24601 on Dec 14, 2018 10:59:24 GMT
No word yet on where this is moving to? The Queens is going dark from possibly as early as March.
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Post by daisy24601 on Dec 14, 2018 16:22:27 GMT
Ah apparently they've told the staff as early as March, but no later than July.
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Post by kimbahorel on Dec 14, 2018 16:35:54 GMT
I assume its at the end of the June at the last booking day. Because that woukd be annoying to book the last shows and find they have been cancelled.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 2, 2019 18:07:52 GMT
The Obamas’ take on Les Mis!
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Post by justafan on Jan 8, 2019 13:03:37 GMT
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Post by Being Alive on Jan 8, 2019 13:20:18 GMT
Exactly what I wanted to happen. Time to get a new version in to the West End.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2019 13:27:39 GMT
Technically though it isn’t closing, it’s moving to the Gielgud for four months  the link title is quite misleading. |
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Post by latefortheoverture on Jan 8, 2019 13:32:29 GMT
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Post by latefortheoverture on Jan 8, 2019 13:36:51 GMT
Really do not know how to take this....
Do I see the original one last time or so I wait and see the new version; really torn and will probs end up seeing both!
I do think it’s such a shame, after it shuts at the Gielgud that will be the end of that production forever... (?!?!?)
Still think it’s a rather ballsy move from CamMack. Do we know if they’ll be a break in performance yet?
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Post by zak97 on Jan 8, 2019 13:38:35 GMT
Wanted to see the current cast anyway, so even more of an incentive to book now. I do like the new production, just a shame the old will disappear.
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Post by duncan on Jan 8, 2019 14:06:28 GMT
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Post by scarpia on Jan 8, 2019 14:13:31 GMT
Very sad if it's true that they're unnecessarily scrapping the original production. I've seen both, and while I enjoyed the newer one, it's not as good as the original. Laurence Connor is not a director on par with Trevor Nunn or John Caird, and the level of detail in it is not as good. Trevor Nunn was right when he said that the best bits of the newer one are all stolen from the original. This to me seems to be all about cost-cutting.
Woe betide Cameron if he even thinks about replacing Hal Prince's unsurpassable Phantom with the mess that was the restaged tour...
If you haven't seen the original production, go and see it before it's too late.
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the link title is quite misleading.
