#les miserable musical

[fiction-podcast-lover]

Didn't see this one yet so I made it

[lalarose216]

Anne Hathaway said she was seen as too young to play Fantine, but Fantine was most likely even younger than her. She was an orphan who grew up on the streets and was taken by the first guy who wanted her, even though he was an overweight, balding idiot. Why? Because she wanted nothing more than to be loved, and would accept it from anyone and give herself to anyone, which is typical of teenage girls. It’s perfectly reasonable to think Fantine was a teen mother.

It honestly would be so heartbreaking to see a teenage girl dying, singing to her estranged daughter, “Cosette, it’s turned so cold . . . Cosette, it’s past your bedtime . . .”

But that’s exactly the story of Fantine, and it’s the story of so many people in her situation. People would look down on her because she had a shaved head, because she was a prostitute, because she was missing her two front teeth, but when you see how young she was, all of that just becomes heartbreaking, that that’s what her story has become, that she has lost so much so early in her life.

She’s a little girl who’s been through hell, and on top of that, she has her own little girl who she’s worried sick about.

[chaos369]

Saw les mis in Philly and Enjolras did not drape over the barricade. He wasn't even the last to die

[tobbogan-13]

just saw les mis and it was SO GOOD!!!!!!!

shout out thenardiers and valjean yall ate

[lalarose216]

I don’t get the Éponine one

WOKE les misérables be like: Jean Vaxjean JavHRT Montreuil-sur-Marriage Equality THEYnardier GAYroche Jehan Pronouns EnjolrAsian American Éponine Les Amis de L'GBT Marijuana Pontmercy

[trashpidgeon48]

Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

[its-ahnist-wurk]

Who up feeling their shame like inside them like a knife

[toffyrats]

[shiftythrifting]

I'm still actively shopping but I had to submit this immediately.

Wethersfield, CT Savers.

[musicalmoritz]

I will never understand how some ppl have such little imagination that they can’t even suspend their disbelief long enough to watch a musical without asking why the characters are singing

[johnadamsbignaturals]

the end of les mis is so fucking good. like, yeah we just turned this whole ending around from a feeling of tragedy and profound loss to one of hope, interconnectedness, and an understanding that the bounds of human love and the innate bonds in the rich tapestry that our lives are woven together into exceed even death. that loss will not stop the future, because the memories of those who dreamed of change will always live on. and this all is achieved in like 20 seconds before credits roll.

[fiction-podcast-lover]

I'm working on smth

[isl0e]

ok, little rant about a use of a leitmotif in les mis that i think has slipped under most people's radars!

so you the know the police leitmotif? the "tell me quickly what's the story/who saw what and why and where/let him give a full description/let him answer to javert!" tune that appears whenever somebody gets arrested?

now turn your ear to javert's suicide, specifically the "i am reaching but i fall/and the stars are black and cold" part. it took me a while to notice, but this whole section of the song is just a snippet of the arrest leitmotif:

but he never completes it. the snippet repeats and repeats. try as he might, he finds himself unable to sing the same old song of Justice and Law and Righteousness and Order. he's like a jammed cassette player spitting out the same second of music over and over and over and over again, unable to follow his old ways, but unable to let them go. he's stuck, but he will keep throwing himself against the walls of the cage.

javert is desperately trying to run on his old tracks of thought, but, as vicky h puts it, he experiences "the derailment of a soul, the shattering of an integrity irresistibly propelled in a straight line and dashed against God".

: )

[nopeemi]

based on the hungarian les mis production with szaszák zsolt as enjolras i saw last weekend, specifically inspired by the begginning of one day more where each character stood under harsch spotlight and i wanted to scream

[bam-bo0zle]

Drawing by me, thank you @thegreatgaygay for the idea

original below cut:

[caitlin-snow-leopard]

Things Theatre Kids Are Uncomfortably Knowledgeable about

The consorts of King Henry VIII

The American Revolution

The June Uprising of 1832

The Newsboy Strike of 1899

Presidential assassinations

Attempted Presidential assassinations

The Barrow Gang