#les miserable musical

[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.

[fiction-podcast-lover]

Didn't see this one yet so I made it

[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

[fiction-podcast-lover]

UURRRGG THE "A la volonté du peuple" NEW LYRICS ARE SO GOOD!!! Thank for sharing

OK A BREAKDOWN OF LES MISERABLES IN FRANCE

- they changed a lot of the lyrics (including my fav/funniest lyrics unfortunately) which was pretty interesting ; honestly i think it's a great thing bc it was last re-written in 1991 and they made the songs more textual, more like real talking and i think way more accessible for a lot of people (bc in france we have this habit of writing pretty words, with a lot of images and lyrical phrases but it's not always helping to understand the plot yknow)

- the new lyrics for do you hear the people sing/à la volonté du peuple are SO GOOD ! originally it says :

à la volonté du peuple/et à la santé du progrès/rempli ton cœur d'un vin rebelle/et à demain ami fidèle

(to the will of the people/and cheers to progress/fill your heart with a rebel wine/and see you tomorrow, faithful friend)

and now it's:

à la volonté du peuple/qui crie les mots de sa colère/le chant de ceux qui ne veulent plus/être les damnés de la terre

à la volonté du peuple/dont on étouffe jamais la voix/et dont le chant renaît toujours/et dont le chant renait déjà

(to the will of the people/screaming the words of its anger/the song of those who don't want to be/the damned on earth anymore

to the will of the people/which you can never choke the voice/and whose song always revive/and whose song's revive already)

and idk i think it's pretty freaking cool; but i'll do a big breakdown of the new lyrics of do you hear the people sing bc it's the song they changed the most and i think it's way better for our times and more hopeful and giving the will to fight

- the stage: honestly real cool and clever! it's a smaller stage, way smaller than the west end one if my memories are not mistaken, and we obvisouly don't have the rotating stage; but they played a lot with moving structures and transparent curtains to make special effect like buildings, rain, etc... and it's way real cool !

- idk who the sound guy was but props to him cause the sound was SO GOOD like it sounded so clean and like listening to an album, truly perfect on this aspect

- the actors were GREAT, you could see they rlly took the roles and made them their own (i think enjolras' actor loves his role bc ive seen some of his tiktok and he looks like he loves it a lot so that's cool af)

- also i bough this

which is a conversation with boublil and schonberg retracing the story of the musical so yay

Anyway i'll do another big post to tell y'all act by act what was happening !

[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

[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

[toffyrats]

[shiftythrifting]

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

Wethersfield, CT Savers.

[fiction-podcast-lover]

I'm working on smth

[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

[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".

: )

[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.

[ofrionstage]

This is a friendly reminder that someone in the 70s discovered asteroid number #24601 and named it Valjean

[cattoonxd]

Thinking about Les mis rn ily enjolras and id like to thank Aaron tveit and his wig for upsetting the trajectory of my life