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Things That Happened During Performance: The Finale

marius-new-hat-and-coat:

And just like that, it’s all over… I’m happy to say that our performances went remarkably well! And knowing us, there were naturally continued hijinks, both onstage and off.

  • We had a spare Enjolras vest, so during “Drink With Me” on the last night, someone wore it on onstage. Cue a brief reenactment of the Spiderman meme. O N S T A G E.
  • AND THE DIRECTORS DIDN’T NOTICE.
  • Also during the last night, Marius actually slapped Thénardier at the wedding.
  • I accidentally kicked one of my shoes halfway across the stage during a dance sequence in “Lovely Ladies” but nbd
  • Several people (me included) were in tears during “Turning.” Side note, it’s really hard to sing when you’re crying.
  • Oh boy, the last night was emotional all around. Enjolras cried the last time she sang “Let others rise to take our place until the earth is free!”
  • Basically there was a lot of crying. Backstage, onstage, before performing, after performing…
  • The only time Valjean ever broke character was when Mme. Thénardier unexpectedly kissed him on the cheek during “The Bargain.”
  • During “The Beggars,” the students handed out pamphlets. Some of them said things like “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” or “Vive la France.” However, one of them simply said “Eat The Rich.”
  • Fantine naturally wanted to continue being part of the show after her death, so we dressed her as a dude and said she could be one of the students. Thus, we added in our own Bahorel, who I’m sad to say is not actually in the script.
  • During the Grantaire / Marius bit in “Red and Black,” Grantaire flung the tablecloth over Enjolras, who was too surprised to react right away.
  • Remember that post about Feuilly and Joly? Well, I noticed them hugging during “One Day More,” holding hands during “Drink With Me,” and saving each other from snipers in the first battle. Jeuilly is hands down the best ship in this production…
  • As a cast we came to the unanimous decision that Marius gives the best hugs.
  • Joly also played Montparnasse and BEGGED for a top hat, but had to settle for a bow tie, and was just a little bitter about it

It was an amazing ride! Thanks everyone for enjoying my silly behind-the-scenes tales. I’ll probably never have the chance to be in Les Mis again, but I’m glad I have such a big list of memories to remember it by!

DTC Les Mis

spacestationtrustfund:

Because I can’t shut up about this wonderful production. (And because @pilferingapples is a horrible enabler. :P)

I was watching the Dallas Theatre Centre’s 2014 production of Les Mis again today, and as always crying a lot over how brilliantly Liesl Tommy adapted the musical for the modern day.

The thing about Dallas Les Mis that hits home particularly perfectly for me is that every situation feels real. The abuse of the workers, the lovely ladies, the prisoners, the students, the children – it’s all the same stuff we see on the news. And the characters are all people I’ve seen before.

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MORE POSTS ABOUT DALLAS LES MIS PLEASE

pilferingapples:

spacestationtrustfund:

Okay, I want to talk more about casting choices, racism, and classism in theatre.

There’s this quote from an interview with Liesl Tommy, about Dallas Les Mis:

I thought about that Dallas audience, and I went down to do a couple of site visits, and I wondered, “How am I going to get this primarily white, fairly affluent Dallas audience to care about Les Miserables?”

Theatre has consistently been political, like any form of art. Art is a pushback against oppression, a way for marginalised individuals to express themselves, a way to speak out. Theatre, in of itself, is a political space.

And then you have Les Mis.

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YAAAY I am so willing to encourage all the LMD posts you feel like making!:D

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Have you read the Brick? Because i was looking for the scene that confirms that javert loves stars and constellations but i couldn’t find it. Could you find the passage that confirms it and perhaps upload a pic of it or is it really not in the original work of Les Mis by Vistor Hugo?

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stephantom:

esteliel:

He doesn’t care at all about stars in the Brick, it’s purely musical
invention. He has no interests except for the rare pinch of snuff and
some reading, which he forces himself to do although he hates it.

In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although he
hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could be
recognized by some emphasis in his speech.

As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, he
permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with
humanity.

The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the
terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry of
Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert routed
them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at sight.

(Les Misérables 1.5.5)

Here’s a passage that does connect Javert with stars in a way that probably inspired the song Stars, in that it is using the stars to symbolize “order and light.” It’s from 1.8.3, when Javert bursts in on Valjean at Fantine’s bedside, after Valjean revealed his true identity at court.

lawisnotmocked:

I’m going to have to confess that I haven’t yet read the Brick! ^^’
Could anyone else help us out here? Does Javert’s love for the stars come from the Brick or the musical?

Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael.

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Hugo also makes a point of saying that there were no stars visible in the sky the night Javert commits suicide; just as Valjean notes there are no visible stars the night before he gives himself up at Arras

Oh, hey, so guess what it says the night Valjean dies:

“The night was starless and extremely dark.
No doubt, in the gloom, some
immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul.“

THANKS FOR THAT, HUGO