#mr thenardier

[random-ikea-drawer]

ok so i love les miserables

AND I JUST GOT TO SEE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE NORTH AMERICA TOUR (more specifically Montreal! (yes i flew to an entirely different country to see it)) and i am incredibly attached to enjolras and grantaire so here are just things i saw that made my nails dig into my thighs <3 (not just enjoltaire)

oh my dear months old source of no big sad

this is 90% incoherent rambling (SPOILERS)

- Grantaire had long hair and a long coat i think that deserves its own point

- During Red and Black, Grantaire did the old “Don Juan” with the bottle right in Enjolras’ face (he was not impressed)

- In this same song, Enjolras got really close to R’s face during “don’t let the wine go to your brain”

- Again, in Red and Black, when they tossed Grantaire’s bottle to Enj, teasing him, Grantaire grabbed the bottle in a… way… when he was giving it back to him

- Same song 😭 Grantaire was bouncing on a guy’s lap during the first few verses

- In DYHTPS, Grantaire pulled Gavroche aside away from the students crowding Enjolras (this broke my heart, he clearly loves him and doesn’t want him to be in a war)

- “Glad to do a friend a favor” with a very suggestive hand gesture

- In the “dogs will bark flees will bite”, Grantaire pointed a finger at Enjolras, the former getting real close putting his weapon between them. They got REALLY close

- Gavroche pulled the middle finger at Javert lmao

-Eponine fucking died (i knew that already, seen every bootleg and version available, still hit hard)

- During Eponine’s death Gavroche ran onto the stage, closely followed by Grantaire being held onto by Enjolras

- Gavroche tried approaching Eponine (that’s his sister bro :()) but was stopped and held onto by Grantaire. When she died however, Grantaire quickly bent to hug Gavroche, man the grief was so clear with them both.

- After she died, everyone cleared to their positions but Enjolras and Grantaire, seemingly for Enjolras to try and comfort him, but decided against it quickly and pushed past him. Grantaire placed his hand on his chest in mock offense 😭

- When the attack was about to start, Grantaire mocked and toyed with tied up Javert. When Enjolras called for hold, Grantaire threw his arms around Javert with a “yep!” and cue the battle starting immediately when that happened

- During Grantaire’s verse during Drink With Me, it’s back to Enjolras and Grantaire being center stage. Enjolras approached him, held onto his arm and with the same hand moved up to brush R’s hair, which lead to him breaking off the contact and rushing to the other corner of the stage.

-He was followed by Gavroche, who hugged him from behind and then they both fell asleep next to each other :((

- Gavroche fucking died (i knew he did still heartbreaking) and was caught by Enj, who handed him to Grantaire

- During the Gavroche solo, Grantaire stood center stage looking to the crowd, not even flinching when the gun sounded, only turning around when Gavroche was already at the top of the barricade

- He tried shaking him awake :(( then set him down and stared at him :((

- That was until Marius fell, Enjolras rushing to check on him, making Grantaire rush to his side

- R grabbed onto Enj and they both held the back of each other’s necks,, from my angle it looked like their foreheads touched but idk if they would do that but MANNN

-Enjolras fucking died first (no wtf :(( )

- Grantaire fucking died last (BRO.)

- Everyone fucking died bro

- Except Marius and JVJ of course

- Mr Thenardier, instead of singing “This one’s a queer but what can you do”, sang “This one’s a queer, I’ll try it to!” and dipped a guy in the wedding 😭

- The “to love another person is to see the face of god” line always makes me emotional just :((

that’s it haha hopefully y’all enjoy the ramblings, ty for reading this far, i seriously recommend going to watch it if you can it’s truly the most amazing thing i’ve ever seen man 😭 may be biased but i’m serious

[moethh]

HEY @to23623ken!!!

by the way guys i am very normal about these two.

[gracellie444]

helena bonham carter 🖤

[stabbyapologist]

Helena Bonham Carter in Conversations with Other Women

I have watched this movie like 3 times in the last 48 hours. ✨️🤌

[hotpinkboots]

WHERE ARE MY HELENA BONHAM CARTER CHARACTER REQUESTS HELLO??? GIRL KISSERS PLEASE RISE

[thekimspoblog]

Even if they never reprise their roles in Breaking Bad, I'm sure Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn will play opposite eachother in something again sooner or later, considering they seem to be besties IRL. I just hope it's some vaguely Thenardiers-esque married duo, because I mean give the people what they want.

[musical-failgirl-fight]

Round 1 Poll 10

Who is the most failgirl?

For Eponine:

She is one of Thee Miserables. The 2012 movie softens a lot of her rough edges, and the fandom often portrays her as Cool….but in the original musical she’s a weird wonky awkward abrasive little criminal. She’s latched all her desperate hopes for the future on the Idealized Fantasy Image she’s created in her head of Marius Pontmercy— who is not *actually* an idealized fantasy prince who will rescue her from poverty, but an awkward young dork. Imagine being so lonely that you sacrifice your life out of unrequited love for *Marius Pontmercy* of all people. Really pathetic. So sad

For Lovett:

You’re telling me she’s not the utmost girlfail? Lying to her crush about his wife being dead to date him, THEN getting killed by him in a big oven. She is so silly she is so stupid she’s done nothing wrong ever.

[heleeanthea]

Rules: put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for their favourite!

Omg, thank you sm @octarineblues for tagging me, I'm always happy to be allowed to talk about music, ha.

Alright, let's see what we'll get!

and about the tags: @abignopefromme, @lunalunaris, feel free to join the game if you want, as well as anyone who stumbles upon this post by chance.

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Oh god, these are so random actually! But I'd say that I'm pretty happy with them, even though randomizing "Master of the house" out of all Les mis songs and aaaaaall the versions of them is... well... I don't even like this song that much.

I am however happy that "Tonight I Feel Like Kafka" found its way onto the list as it is one of my favourite songs ever!

Aannnnddd we also have a competitor from Poland - Lordofon!!

[thatisntverycombefair]

eponine would have loved mr bingley from pride and prejudice

[henry-the-queer-artist]

scrubbit and bleacher = discount thenardiers??

[starsfromtoulon]

they really did say, "oh, yeah, Javert HATES books but he also spends any free time he has reading. also, this makes him sound full of himself."

[marleneoftheopera]

Holiday Audio/Video Gifts!

For the holiday season, here are some audio gifts from various shows and one Phantom video! The link to them is here and the info is below the cut:

Happy holidays and I hope you are all having time for some rest!

Audios

POTO

Jon Robyns, Paige Blankson, Joe Griffiths-Brown, Kelly Glyptis, Matt Harrop, Adam Linstead, Francesca Ellis, David Kristopher Brown, Maiya Hikasa August 22, 2023; London

Tim Howar, Harriet Jones, Nadim Naaman, Lara Martins, Nicholas Garrett, Arvid Larsen, John Ellis, Valerie Cutko, Kelsi Boyden March 19, 2023; Greece

Josh Piterman, Corinne Cowling (u/s), Danny Whitehead, Katy Hanna (u/s), Ross Dawes, Kris Manuel (u/s), Sophie Caton (u/s), Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware October 17, 2019; London ​Matinee.

Jeremy Stolle (u/s), Samantha Hill, Greg Mills (u/s), Michele McConnell, Richard Poole (u/s), Tim Jerome, Ellen Harvey, Christian Sebek, Kara Klein, Scott Mikita (u/s) March 9, 2013; Broadway Matinee performance.

John Owen-Jones, Deborah Dutcher, Matthew Cammelle, Bruce Montague, Charles Shirvell, Margaret Mary Kane (u/s), Janet Murphy, Jeremy Secomb, Lucy Middleton January 5, 2002; London

Love Never Dies

Tam Mutu, Celia Graham, David Thaxton, Daniel Dowling August 25, 2011; London Tam Mutu's last performance.

Les Miserables

Christopher Jacobsen (u/s Jean Valjean), Stewart Clarke (Javert), Katie Hall (Fantine), Will Callan (Marius), Lulu-Mae Pears (Cosette), Amena El-Kindy (Eponine), Luke Kempner (Thenardier), Claire Machin (Madame Thenardier), Dejan Van der Flyert (Enjolras), Alex Shaw (Gavroche), Clohe Sullivan (Little Cosette), Tom Hext (Grantaire/Majordomo), Adam Pearce (Bishop/Claquesous), Ellie Ann Lowe (Factory Girl), Jordan Simon Pollard (u/s Foreman/Bujon), Matt Dempsey (Bamatabopis/Lesgles), Annabelle Aquino, Hazel Baldwin, Emily Olive Boyd, Ben Culleton, Matt Hayden, Sam Kipling, Anouk Van Lake, Harry Lake, Ben Oatley, Jonathan Stevens, Phoebe Williams, Ollie Wray September 28, 2023; London 15,000th show in London and the 5th show for the new company.

Sunset Boulevard

Nicole Scherzinger (Norma), Tom Francis (Joe Gillis), David Thaxton (Max von Mayerling), Grace Hodgett Young (Betty Shaefer), Ahmed Hamaad (Artie), Tyler Davis (Sheldrake), Charlotte Jaconelli (Johanna), Jon Tsouras (Cecil B. de Mille) September 28, 2023; London

Rebecca

Laureen Jones (I), Richard Carson (Maxim de Winter), Kara Lane (Mrs Danvers), Sara Harlington (Beatrice), Neil Moor (Giles), Piers Bate (Frank Crewley), David Breeds (Ben), Alex James Ward (Jack Favell), Shrley Jameson (Mrs Van Hopper), Nicholas Lumley (Colonel Julian) September 27, 2023; Off-West End

POTO Video

Ian Jon Bourg, Olivia Safe (u/s), Kyle Gonyea 2001; Hamburg, Germany VOB files. One of the most legendary Phantom's opposite one of the youngest Christine's!

[utterlyvertigo]

The Ballad of The Witches’ Road (Musical Theatre Version)

The Trial Chapter

Cassandra’s trial is after Agatha’s, and it takes place in a house with the interior of a classic Broadway/West End theatre.

Costumes

Agatha Harkness: Mrs Lovett, Sweeney Todd

Cassandra Mun: Jane Doe, Ride the Cyclone

Rio Vidal: Phantom of the Opera, Phantom of the Opera

Billy Maximoff: Jason Dean, Heathers

Lilia Calderu: Madame Thenardier, Les Miserables

Jennifer Kale: Cathrine of Aragon, Six

The Trial

Each member of the coven is given a script. On the cover, in Mrs Hart’s handwriting, is a piece of information about a different coven member, either a fact/secret, or how Mrs Hart perceived them. They have to figure out who the person that their script is talking about and return the script to that person.

After Mrs Hart is Alice, then Billy, then Cassandra, then Jen, then Rio, then Lilia and finally Agatha.

The trial is built upon trust, and what the coven are willing to be accountable for, what they’re willing to admit scares them or they like. It’s a test of trust for the coven.

The Ballad

When the scripts are being passed around, the coven needs to preform the Musical Theatre Version of The Ballad of The Witches Road. This performance involves tying Agatha to a stake and performing a legal trial. This is likely very traumatic for Agatha and Cassandra.

[anneangel]

I was rambling with my friend about how unfair I thought the way the 4 of the 5 Thenardier children died (with the exception of Azelma). And my friend was like: what five kids? And I was like: Azelma, Eponine, Gavroche and two other boys whose names we don't know, but who were sold to another woman so she could pretend they were Marius' grandfather's children (because the original children had died) and she wanted to keep earning the money he gave her to support the children and never mention that was related to he. She was later arrested and the children were left on the street, looked after by they older brother, Gavroche (who had no idea they were his brothers). I mean, Gavroche and Eponine died on the barricades, and the two boys were left alone without Gavroche, fighting with ducks over a piece of food that the rich throw into the river for the ducks, and this chapter takes place after the chapter death of Gavroche's, and the name of the chapter suggests that they go starve to death without their fatherly figure of care (Gavroche, not mr. Thenardier). my friend: What? Where did you see that? Me: I dont see. I read. Are you sure we read the same book??? Returning to my reason for venting, I get so angry every time I remember that people like Mr. Thenardier survive and even go to America to be a slave owner (with the money that MARIUS gave him thinking that his father had a life debt with this scoundrel). It makes me so angry that the best characters die, the bishop, Jean, Les Amis, while cruel characters live, like Mr. Thenardier and members of Patron-Minette. But this is the author showing that life isn't really fair.

[hotpinkboots]

hi im gay which helena bonham carter characters do you right for?

Hi I'm gay too here's a list of HBC characters I write for:

-Mrs. Lovett -Red Harrington -Bellatrix Lestrange -Madame Thénardier -Iracebeth (Red Queen) -Emily (Corpse Bride) -Marla Singer -Rose Weil -Miss Havisham -Susan Ivey -Joan Potter -Clair Spivet -Morgan le Fay -Mrs. Bucket -Julia Hoffman -Fairy Godmother

More coming soon, lovey 💜

[genderfeel]

need to gush about stewart clarke’s javert among other things from our multiple showings of lm these last couple of weeks

clarke is honestly up there for me with terrence mann in terms of my fav javerts….. he honestly kind of looked like him with his dead eyed stare and eyeliner. serving corpse

he was sooooo robotic during every fucking scene he was in apart from the finale but still had this soft emotion during stars. dude had literally no thoughts behind those eyes just staring off into middle distance while fantine is weeping. had 0 reaction to gavroche, thenardier, literally anyone.

single notable reaction pre-alleyway scene was clarke seeing valjean walk into the barricade and just. staring at him. like the entire time while gunfire is going on man is barely ducking or reacting he’s just staring at this dude. impeccable. made funnier by grantaire sitting between them

related sidenote was that i LOVED this grantaire. not someone i typically focus on while watching but tom hext is so so fun, loved his energy and thousand yard stares in equal measure. also fat grantaire based. i’m shocked people don’t go on and on about this dude bc he was also so fun to watch in the ensemble

katie hall was absolutely the best fantine i’ve seen, cried both times. she plays it nice and angry at times with the appropriate amount of acting. wonderful voice. same of the eponine, wonderful talents and spot on casting

i will relegate this to a brief note bc i don’t want to complain endlessly about it but mannnnn this valjean suckeddd. played it way way too angry (did not help that his eyebrows ((naturally??)) are super arched. super arai manga jvj vibes but irl). great voice but no good acting choices or really any at all. i got the distinct impression all this dude knew about the character was the show itself and didn’t really “get” valjean. left me extremely unemotional even in the last bits which is wild

side note to that: i did cry at the beginning of the finale but only bc i remembered nick cartell’s performance and was thinking about that instead. for those unfamiliar he walks with a prisoner’s limp which drives me fucking insane

side side note: the only good thing this valjean did was pause while reading marius’ letter at the word “love” in like an incredulous way. then at the end he crunched the letter up into a ball. extremely in character for the brick and could bring a more interesting depth that the musical lacks but terrible and aggro for no reason in the context of this performance

okay back to javert. his suicide? insane. wonderful acting choices playing it pretty tormented until near the end he was cracking his voice HARD which was just so painful every time. not overly angry at all. also particular more to our first time seeing him—this man was absolutely dribbling spit during some sections. like hanging from his mouth like a dog. you truly cannot do it better than this. it really made the best of what i would call a flawed but potentially good adaptation of javert derailed in a way where i’m sure mr clarke Gets javert and reads derailed like his character bible

i liked the way clarke ran around and writhed around on the ground. dedication.

goes without saying but i imagine clarke’s performance would be even better if he were paired with a more competent valjean. but what can you do 😔

baffled that they took away javert’s costume change during one day more. i have to assume someone thought people were too stupid to realize it’s javert in his little baker boy cap. a loss to us all

why did gavroche have the coconut head haircut

claire made me see this godforsaken show three times. i don’t even want to talk about the understudy javert we had to sit through i want to simply forget

he (they hate each other so much)