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does anyone have any audio for harry chandler as enjolras? asking for a friend :)

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hii! was wondering if you or anyone had a b00tleg of a les mis uk tour? specifically the 2021 one with steven hall grantaire?

I only have audio recordings, I know there is some footage of the whole show floating around but I’m yet to find it

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When I saw this guy on tour as enjolras i new he’d end up in the west end cast

NOW ITS HAPPENING

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I’M SO EXCITED!!!

This cast was truly amazing…

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hi les mis fans!

if you can, i urge you to reblog this

i'm collecting data about the fandom for my own personal interest and hope you guys are willing to participate in a short survey to help me :)

your email and other personal info will not be shared with me, it's anonymous

the survey should take just a few minutes to complete

responses close next tuesday

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EVEYONE GO VOTE FOR LES MIS!!!!

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Les Misérables London West End 2022-2023 Cast:

Jon Robyns as Jean Valjean:

I really loved Jon as JVJ, his performance was so dynamic and powerful. Probably one of the best JVJ’s in terms of acting ability - he was amazing throughout. The looks and head movements he gave towards Javert were hilarious: he was done with everything Javert was doing. When Javert entered the hospital the look was basically the definition of ‘dude! She’s dying! Not the time!’. He also had amazing vocals (not my favourite this year) but his bring him home was beautiful. The main part of his performance, like I previously said, was the acting.

David Thaxton as Javert:

Amazing Javert. His performance of Stars was just incredible. His acting performance throughout scenes was the perfect mix of intimidating and authority. His soliloquy was so well acted. He mixed speaking a singing with I adored. He also had a softness about him that ran along the sternness and it was confusingly good. His chemistry with Jon Robyns was perfect - they worked the best as a pair compared to other performances I’ve seen this year. Their fight scenes were great.

Ava Brennan as Fantine:

She had such beautiful rich low tone that maintained a youthfulness to it which was just incredible. Her acting was also really good although I think she could have explored the physicality of Fantine a bit more as some parts were very stationary with just facial expressions. But overall one of my favourite performances this year.

[does anyone know why the fantine dress has changed again???!!!!!]

Nathania Ong as Eponine:

The best vocals I’ve literally ever heard live in anything ever (and that’s saying something since I’ve heard Bradley Jaden’s Soliloquy which was mind shatteringly good). Her performance personified acting with intent. Everything she did had a purpose and it gave such a realistic refreshing dynamic performance. Her on my own was the best vocal performance of anyone this year no matter the role. My favourite thing was when she switch to a hopeful childlike tone on the word “happiness” in on my own, before switching immediately back to anger. She played such a dark Eponine who felt caught up in everything but still separate which adored so much.

Benjamin Karran as Marius (1st cover):

Beautiful low vocals, but I did think that his high notes needed some work in terms of darkening the sounds as they sometimes came across screechy. I loved his characterisation though, it was a wonderful blend of annoying and adorable which made enjolras’ frustration understandable. Overall he was a really easy to watch Marius.

Lulu-Mae Pears as Cosette:

Cosette personified. Pure and utter beauty, are the only ways to describe her performance. She had beautiful high notes with no effort or over done vibrato. Her character was so bouncy and energetic and youthful, and she made you just fall in love with cosette as a character. She had such a youthful personality without being overly innocent and was exactly how I envisioned cosette from reading the book. Probably the most enjoyable cosette I’ve seen in a long while.

Gerard Carey as Thènardier:

Pure raucous chaos throughout all his scenes. I’ve seen him multiple times performing with both casts this year and his master of the house with the new cast was just perfection: so much gusto and obnoxiousness. Just amazingly crazy character and vocals.

Josefina Gabrielle as Madame Thènardier:

She was so funny. Comedic timing was perfect and the way she played with her voice to add emphasis and accents on different phrases and words was just wonderful.

Jordan Shaw as Enjolras:

From clips I’ve seen of him, I didn’t go into the theatre expect me to like his performance; but it was probably my favourite all round performance of enjolras this year - high praise coming from some so obsessed with the character. Yes, there were times when his vocals weren’t my favourites but his voice blended so well with the ensembles and the way he acted was so clear and passionately beautiful. He had a wonderful idealistic sensitivity to him and because of that his vocal didn’t matter as they fit the character as whole so well. Would love to go and see him again!

Bart Lambert as Grantaire:

One sentence…

Depressed teletubbie got drunk and ate too much sugar…

Hilarious performance of grantaire with so much bouncy energy (I could totally see his R and Lulu-Mae’s cosette being friends). He was serious when he needed to be but when he didn’t he fully explored the light hearted side of R. There’s was a nice bond between him and Gavroche and he had a heartbreaking reaction to Gav’s death. Because I was close to the stage I could hear him whispering stuff like ‘he’s just a kid’ and ‘no no no’ while cradling gavroches body. He was also so careful when laying gav down and took so long to arrange his body with so much care. Unlike Steven Hall and Connor Jones his vocals were very sung and didn’t have as much grit to them, which I loved because it matched the playful energy he had. My only criticism is that he didn’t have the best chemistry with marius but that maybe due to Benjamin being on and having not had a chance to develop it yet.

Cameron Burt as Feuilly:

He had an absolutely wonderful performance and worked so well with Jordan Shaw as Enjolras. His vocals were also very strong: well pronounced and not over sung. I desperately need to see him on as Enjolras as he’s a cover for that role.

Overall opinion on whole cast:

The ensemble was wonderful: I do think they need a bit more time to properly gel seamlessly but overall they did work well together. It was a very level overall good performance with no one being significantly better than anyone else so it felt very complete. The stupid barricade still annoys me but I’m growing to like the new production more and more as I go to see it. I don’t think it will ever be as good as the previous one but when you have a good cast and know the show well it’s not the end of the world.

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Saw Les Mis in London for the first time since 2019. Still not loving the new design but after years without Les Mis I’ll take it lol.

David Thaxton’s Javert is truly unhinged in the end and I love it. Jon Robyns was struggling a bit with the score and upted down on the ”took my flight”, which was disappointing. Really enjoyed Nathania Ong’s Eponine. Other than that the cast didn’t leave a strong impression.

Thenadier saying ”i bet he likes kids” after the ”this one’s a queer” line really made me go ”woosh”, didn’t go well with the audience either based on the sound they made.

All in all, it’s still Les Mis so I did enjoy it and cried in the end lol

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If anyone has any good recommendations for research papers/academic analysis’ of the les mis novel, please let me me know. I need them as part of my academic research. They can be in either French or English.

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Victor Hugo sexyperson bracket: FINAL ROUND

Esmeralda v. Enjolras

Who will win?

You decide!!!

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Please don’t tag things as Les Mis just because they have the actors from the movie in them, that is spam.

I’ve never tagged les mis in things just because they have the actors in them except this one time. I only did it because Aaron - despite being in the film - is also we’ll know in the musical theatre fandom and some people appreciate knowing what the old cast of the les mis film (who still work in musical theatre) are doing. This is the only post I’ve tagged les mis in that could be considered a separate topic, I did it because I was excited as a fan of les mis about something someone who has played one of my favourite roles is doing. I’m sorry if I upset you!

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Hey Tumblr! Hope you’re all well. I found this image on Pinterest but have been unable to find the artist.

I’m pretty sure this is meant to be Enjolras from Les Miserables, if this helps. Anyone recognize this work and could point me to the artist?

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aaron tveit saw that he isn't on my spotify wrapped for the first time in 4 years and immediately announced his return to moulin rouge to get my attention back

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OKAY, HOW DO I GET TO AMERICA - I NEED TO SEE HIM IN THIS ROLE!!!!

Also what is his thing about roles that heavily feature France: les mis, moulin rouge, catch me if you can etc!

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eponine: a little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now :)

marius: it’s not the fucking rain I’m worried about eponine

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Les Mis fandom stock photo survey results

I'mma be real with you, I expected about 100 people to do this quiz. At the time of writing, we're over 1,000. Uquiz was not designed to do interesting things with the data, and this quiz wasn't designed rigorously, so I'm pulling this data from 24 hours' worth because already doing this was tedious.

I put the quiz together because I talk about race in fanart in my thesis, and wanted some way to depict this without using real fanart, so went on a stock photo depository and chose ones I thought reflected the most common fan headcanons. I essentially wanted a "86% of fans polled could understand these shorthands through the chosen stock photos!"

Thoughts: 

The Great Ginger Mix-up was obviously far and away the biggest factor of this poll. As it was the second option on the poll, most people guessed “Feuilly” instead of Marius too early. Some people mentioned in the notes that, had they taken a better look at the stock photo comparison in the tumblr post before starting, that would have influenced their instinctual answer. But also. I get it. Marius should not have been ginger. Message very much recieved.

The second biggest influence was the spelling errors on “Jean Valjean”. Partially my own fault, I wasn’t sure how to ensure people would write “Jean Valjean” instead of “Jean”, “Valjean”, "24601", “Fauchelevent” or some other answer to be clever. (There were quite a few “Valjohns”, which did surprise me.) About 30% of participants got this fundamentally correct but with a spelling error, so I adjusted the results to fix that.

The next most common error on this same question was to fill the third gap with either “Fantine” or “Catherine” or “the feeling of parenthood” so. Too clever for this poll, sorry!

After about 5 hours, people started taking the poll saying that they very much had never watched / read Les Mis, and were doing the poll just to do it. Which was not super helpful for the results on the lower end. ^^ 

As people noted, these stock images reflected a 2014-ish era of Les Mis fandom, not necessarily the current one. This was on purpose - my thesis deals with how fan depictions of Les Amis have changed between 2012 - 2022, with these focusing on the early years, though it was interesting to note that so many people commented that these were recognisably 2013/4.

Racialisation: the characters most often confused for one another were Bossuet, Bahorel and Combeferre, characters who are most often depicted as Black or mixed-race in fandom. (Below being results from a previous study).

Joly was recognisable as an East Asian man by more people in the upper percentiles than those in the lower. I have no idea why this is. Perhaps newer fans are more unfamiliar with 2014 era fanart and are confused by his being the only East Asian? (And, yes, as people in the notes did point out, yes, it is racist for the only East Asian person to be a doctor, and disabled, and commonly asexual.)

Who Are Those Old Men? Quite a few people assumed the only middle-aged man would be Valjean, not Javert. The only result that did actually surprise me - though as many people pointed out, depictions of Javert change drastically whether you’re in the Amis vs. Valvert side of the fandom. And, as in the above chart, yes, he is often racialised as having brown skin in fanworks (though this was one of the few stock photos I could find of someone with long hair too).

Women! There were 3 female characters, and they got mistaken for each other. Interestingly, Jehan most often got mistaken for Cosette.

Feuilly was the least likely to be guessed correctly (someone in the tags posited that he is the least cared-about Amis, I also think it comes from his having the least 'set' headcanon).

Almost nobody guessed Enjolras wrong. He is most recognisable as a blond-haired, light-skinned man wearing red.

Thank you to everyone who participated, I hope it was a blast from the past, and some of you got something out of it.