so, i’m in a production of les mis: school edition with my local community theatre (playing jean provauire/jehan) we open 2 weeks from today. here are some of my favorite stories/random things from rehearsal (so far!)
– my friend (playing cosette) is a lesbian. my other friend (playing marius) is gay. “a heart full of love” is pretty funny because they have NO chemistry aT ALL
– during the wedding scene, my friend said that marius and cosette aren’t good together because “he’s a lesbian, she’s gay” and now everyone says that
– we didn’t have choreography for the wedding scene so everyone did fortnite dances
– the barricade boys (myself included) stood in a circle t-posing during one of the battles
– our Javert has a very unique voice. its very low and he doesn’t enunciate that well so it kinda sounds like he has a cold all the time. (when i first saw him in a production of little shop I thought it was an accent) the cast likes to sing the entirety of “one day more” in this voice a lot
– one time marius came on late during “red and black” he said he was backstage but someone misheard him and said “you came from cosette’s hoT TUB????”
– this is now a cast joke
– out of the barricade boys, there are only three actual boys. enjolras is played by a girl who’s 5’9
– my friend and I made up a subplot where our characters are gay lovers and die holding hands on the barricade
– my friend (same friend who I’m gay lovers with) and I both have a crush on the girl playing cosette
– we both lowkey wanted to be Marius
– one time the whole cast started singing “sincerely me” and our music director said “THIS IS LES MIS, YOU SING LES MIS”
– we don’t have the set yet, and we won’t till the day before the show. this is very fun during the barricade scenes
– we also don’t have props (other than chairs and music stands) during “master of the house” i’m supposed to fall asleep on a table, but i had to use a music stand which promptly collapsed when i put my head on it.
– our Valjean has a crush on fantine and eVERYBODY knows about it. she doesn’t like him back which makes things kinda awkward
– also: cosette hates Valjean and she tries not to touch him during their scenes together, which… complicates things
– at least half the cast is gay
– everyone lowkey thinks our marius sucks and doesn’t sing with emotion. during “empty chairs at empty tables” i was backstage bitching about him with at least a third of the cast
i’ll update y’all as the show gets closer! more shenanigans are sure to come
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