#Gavroche the Musical

[pilferingapples]

I have seen Gavroche the Musical and maybe that's why I can't sleep

Spoilers under the cut though this is NOT a coherent review post , it's gonna be long and confusing like the musical itself HEYOOOOO and somehow have spoilers so. here we go

this show...is definitely a show

seriously all the songs are very "Musical! The Musical!!" you know?

The Thenardiers are running a welfare scheme

ignoring that this is genuinely straight up right wing propaganda about how welfare works, yeah ok they would run any grift but

their whole "fraudulent scheme" consists of trying to convince ...canon era social workers? Aid for Dependent Children? IDEK-- that they are Super Poor and have children to feed and they need help

And ?!? they ARE super poor! They DO have children to feed! Their welfare scheme is just applying for welfare that they definitely need

They do this by kicking Eponine and Azelma out so the Social Services People...of 1832...will only see the momes

which if anything means they are applying for less welfare than they are entitled to

but the song is in minor key and the Ts are transparently bad parents so this is supposed to be Evil somehow , and we're all supposed to cheer when the cops arrest them and then do not help the kids at all

It's hare to tell because the costuming in the version I saw was very haphazard but I think the cops?? were only posing as social workers? So they could arrest the Ts for a totally different crime? But we're still supposed to cheer when they arrest the parents because haha , they were poor and bad! Who do they think they are, asking for *checks notes* financial aid they are entirely entitled to have?

the cops are the good guys?? sort of?? they keep showing up to arrest the Ts and the show always frames it as a good thing

the revolutionaries...are also the good guys

I was very unclear on how the revolutionaries died but hilariously they ALL die, even Marius , because there's no Valjean in this

oh yeah, there's no Valjean, no onscreen Cosette, and no named Javert, though there are cop characters who could be Javert

there IS Mabeuf, and Eponine goes to him for info about Marius, but the show seems to think he's called "Father" Mabeuf for religious reasons, oh no

I was also unclear about what they were fighting for, which is an absolute trip when this was an uprising with an exceptionally clear and direct purpose ("MONARCHY BAD, REMOVE MONARCH BY FORCE IF NECESSARY")

I was VERY clear on the momes naming themselves Grizzly and Croissant

I am not gonna forget that possibly ever , my loved ones will gather round me and I'll murmur " but those names...are so bad...they aren't even easy to use in...a song" and Perish and my last thoughts will be of frigging Gavroche The Musical , a dire fate

Azelma and the momes live and go to America alone?? and have a great life?? does anyone remember what happened in the book. Does anyone remember what was happening in the US in this time period?? certainly THIS musical does not!

It is pretty directly stated that Grizzly and/or Croissant came back to Paris to tell his family's story--which, I gotta say, he has no way to know since most of it happened when he wasn't around and no one survived to tell him about it -- and became the tour guide in the first scene

but the tour guide in the first scene showed them the Gavroche statue

..that statue went up in 1904

This is Love Never Dies levels of Timelines Happening

Gavroche the Musical 2 is gonna be about Gavroche running an amusement park on coney island

ngl I'd watch that

I haven't covered HALF the things About the Show

I gotta apologize to action movies for making fun of "well THAT happened" dialogue because truly. It IS an emotion, and it's the one I'm feeling now.

[sasspresso]

I saw Les Misérables live recently right. I have literally never had a more emotionally moving experience in my life. I wept so hard I genuinely thought I would faint. ENJ AND R DIDN'T DIE HOLDING HANDS. Instead they set up a found family dynamic between Grantaire and Gavroche. Then they had Gavroche die. And then they had Grantaire weakly try to resuscitate him then give up and cry over his body. Then when Enjolras died Grantaire was the last one standing and he climbed to the top of the barricade and exposed his chest to be shot. I LOST IT. THEY ARE KILLING ME HERE.

Fun fact!! "Les Misérables" is not actually referring to the characters in the story, rather to the audience after watching this 3 hour long gut-wrenchingly beautiful musical play out /nsrs

[peggy24601]

here are my notes from last night's Les Mis performance on West End (mostly Grantaire related whoopsie)

i have way too much shit to say I still haven't processed my emotions so bear with me

Gavroche saying “Aye aye governor” to Javert right before Stars! This kid is d(￣◇￣)b💯ᵖᵉʳᶠᵉᶜᵗ

Grantaire staying carefully away from Enjolras during Red and Black… before slapping the ever living hell out of Enjolras’ butt??? Sir??? Where did that confidence come from??? 

Gavroche being Grantaire's son, and Enjolras trying to also be a figurehead for him (does he want to be included? Is he doubtful of R's capacity as a parent? You decide!) 

Everyone roasting Marius (even someone shouting “Shut up Marius”)! Beautiful! Applauded!!! 

Cosette rushing to help Éponine off the floor after Thénardier slaps her.. Then holding her hands as they stare in each other's eyes **lesbians intensifies**

Grantaire being drunk af during One Day More, but taking a step to be seen by Enjolras, then Enjolras giving him a smile and a pat on the shoulder before going in front of him!!! I can't!!! 🥺

Grantaire trying to help but also keeping himself clearly separated from the rest of the boys during Here Upon These Stones

Gavroche being a little shit™

GAVROCHE EXPOSING JAVERT, GRANTAIRE GIVING HIM HIS BOTTLE SO HE CAN PUT THE KID ON A TABLE AND GAVROCHE DOWNING IT'S CONTENT AND R JUST RUFFLING HIS HAT

Gavroche and Grantaire being the first ones to find Éponine and Marius in A Little Fall of Rain, and Grantaire holding him the whole time

Enjolras going to comfort Marius when Éponine dies and Grantaire keeping him from doing it so Gavroche can go instead

Gavroche giving Marius Éponine's hat 😭😭

Enjolras trying to go and comfort Grantaire during his existential crisis in Drink with Me, but him running away from Enjolras before Gavroche practically tackles him in a back hug on the wall!!! 

Everyone looking at Grantaire when Gavroche rushes over the barricade

Enjolras running to catch Gavroche when he's shot then giving him to Grantaire and looking absolutely destroyed

Grantaire yelling “You bastards” during the barricade call

Even after the final battle begins, Grantaire still stays back, he's not ready to start fighting yet. But then he sees Enjolras and he be running to be shot too

Grantaire’s actor's sleeve got caught on a piece of the set so his arms were in the most awkward position for the Bring Him Home reprise

Enjolras being brought out in a cart, Javert blessing Gavroche’s dead body before signaling to a police man to put him on a cart with Enjolras

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables! Enjolras and Grantaire being next to each other, then face to face, THEY'RE NARRATIVE FOILS

Valjean saying “must-a” in an almost Italian accent in Who Am I reprise…  twice

May I present M. Thénardier “I wish I would've married your sister” and his wife “I wish you were dead”

Enjolras and Grantaire holding Gavroche between them at the end of the show, Enjolras was accepted as a figurehead and Grantaire gets his man they're in paradise I'm not sobbing you are

[whocaresaboutyourlonelysoul]

can someone tell me why in every official recent production of les miserables in drink with me, enjolras always gets brushed off by grantaire. it's always the same blocking EVEN KYLE ADAMS AND DEVIN ARCHER.

i've seen so many older bootlegs and they used to all be slightly unique and then they all began to have the exact same blocking- enjolras goes to comfort grantaire, grantaire pushes him off, goes off to the side, gavroche goes to comfort him. why is that?? i miss the uniqueness of that specific moment :(

[thekinglemingle]

Please help me Tumblr.

What's the deal with Gavroche?

Why can he break the fourth wall? My wife says it's "because he's the narrator" but I feel you can't introduce a narrator in the second act and Paris/Look Down and Stars aren't really enough fourth wall breaks to count as a narrator. So why does the musical include this?

[gay-rad-desert]

Bossuet and Gavroche hanging out

My @drinkwithme-exchange gift for @calamansi-calamari !! I hope you like it :)

[thepiecesofcait]

The Death of Gavroche

[thatisntverycombefair]

Les mis characters as stock images I found on Pinterest part 2

valvert

javert

Marius confessing his love to the girl he's only seen from afar

the thenardiers and javert

javert's fursona

bishop Charles Myriel to the officers

jehan straight up jorkin it

gavroche closing up his bureau for the day

specifically drew sarich javert

fantine trying to find the money to give to the thenardiers

[chrysalismandtea]

i did it again!!!!!!!!!! i got too emotionally attached to a fanfic and now that i finished it i’m an empty shell of a person!!!!!!!!!!

also, to everyone that recommended world ain’t ready: you’re officially on my favourite-people-in-the-world list, and i didn’t even have one before now anyway THANK YOU

[pilferingapples]

(realizing before I post this that I prob. need to clarify here that I'm talking about Gavroche the Musical and not anything else)

I'm sorry I just can't get over how the Thenardier's ONLY Evil Scheme we see them pull onstage is "attempting to apply for welfare, which they definitely need, but they're tacky and mean so they shouldn't have it"

we're sooort ooof informed about other crimes but this is the only one that happens where the audience can see it , the proof of how evil they are

trying to get money for poor families with dependent children...as a poor family with dependent children

it's just such an utterly Reaganite take on The Evils of Welfare

"what if this money goes to bad poor people?? what if the children of bad tacky people have food?? WHAT THEN. "

plot outlines by Javert I swear

[littlesongbirb]

My long distance friend and I are talking about getting matching Les Mis quote tattoos

What do yall think about this idea? (Their favourite character is Enjolras and mine is Gavroche)

[pedalingsu]

protective Grantaire

*cw below; blood/violence

They are ‘23-24 South Korean production casts

[ueinra]

LES MIS CAST WON THIS TREND NO DOUBT.

I love how it’s always Javert out of all the characters lol There's another one for him with Valjean too.

[whocaresaboutyourlonelysoul]

VIOLENTLY reenacting gavroches death and kyle adam's grantaires reaction in a public park in the dead of night... don't look at me like that lady

[nortism]

les mis but gavroche interjects after every single song to make snarky little comments about whoever’s singing like he does at the end of stars