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Les Miserables (pg. 2)
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| LeopoldStotch |
i did read the book.
i have heard the play is awesome.
unfortunately, the production crew that did it when it stopped at new orleans (forgot who it was. i think it was an amateur travelling group.) were very poor actors. i guess i let the poor acting get the best of me, and did not really listen to the dialogue between the characters , and try to follow the plot from the beginning to end.
have you ever been to a play, where the acting is so horrible that you cannot concentrate on the flow of the play, therefore you get lost during the middle of an act ?
but i will try to catch it the next time it comes around. |
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| D-res |
[music]
Welcome, M'sieur, sit yourself down and meet the best Inn keeper in town.
As for the rest, all of them crooks, rooking the guests and cooking the books.
Seldom do you see honest men like me, a gent of good intent who's content to be.
Master of the house, doling out the charm, ready with a handshake and an open palm, tells a saucy tale, makes a little stir. Customers appreciate a bonviveur!
Glad to do my friends a favour, doesn't cost me to be nice, but nothing gets you nothing, everything has got a little price!
Master of the house, keeper of the zoo, ready to relieve them of a sou, or two,
watering the wine, making up the weight, picking up their knick knacks when they can't see straight.
Everybody loves a landlord, everybody's bosom friend,
I do whatever pleases. Jesus! Don't I bleed'em in the end!
MASTER OF THE HOUSE, QUICK TO CATCH YER EYE, NEVER WANTS A PASSER BY TO PASS HIM BY.
SERVANT TO THE POOR, BUTLER TO THE GREAT, COMFORTER, PHILOSOPHER AND LIFE-LONG MATE!
EVERYBODY'S BOON COMPANION, EVERYBODY'S CHAPERONE,
BUT LOCK UP YOUR VALISES, JESUS! WON'T I SKIN YER TO THE BONE!
...... etc etc
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| washout |
only read the book.
never saw the play.
just saw the 95/98 film thouth with quigon, claire, and uma.
completely bypassed the thenardier subplots among others.
im rich bitch. |
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| occrider |
| Meh, I've only heard so-so from everyone I know who's seen it. The producers is still one of the best musicals I've ever seen followed closely by the phantom of the opera (which just became the longest running musical). Mebot if you want something REALLY good, Spamalot is coming to DC in the summer. Definetely catch that. |
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| dj_inferno |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mebot
I went to go see Les Miserables at the National Theater in Washington DC on Saturday. |
ZOMG, j/k. I saw it there also on a previous date. I thought it was great. I went in not having any idea of what it was about. I really liked the music. |
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| Mebot |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Mebot if you want something REALLY good, Spamalot is coming to DC in the summer. Definetely catch that. |
Will do. I will be checking Wolf Trap to see what their lineup for the summer is as well. |
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| fitom tiel |
Also, The Merchant of Venice  |
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| [ groovypants ] |
The 4 part mini series Les Mis¨¦rables with G¨¦rard Depardieu as Jean Valjean and John Malkovich [well suited although his French seemed a bit iffy] as Jevert was pretty good!
I've yet to see the musical or stage play but definitely want to go. |
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| eROs.au |
| wtf is Les Miserables |
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| dj_inferno |
| quote: | Originally posted by eROs.au
wtf is Les Miserables |
It's an emo play about being miserable. |
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| MrSquirrel |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
and FFS people, it's a musical... not a play. :p |
Which means it is utter garbage by association :p
God I hate musicals....cool scenery but blah....if I wanted to listen to singing I would go see opera, this bust into song anytime some random non-important thing happens just s not my style.
Example:
(Hero kicks the desk on accident, breaks into song)
Oh, My God!
I stubbed my toe.
It really hurts.
(chorus)
Does it hurt?
Hero:
Yes it really really hurts!
Etc etc...
Andrew Lloyd Webber does know how to get butts in the seats though. Thank goodness Phantom pushed that pos Cats off of the recordbook finally. Phantom btw has sold out nearly every performance in NY since it opened in 1989.
It will never catch The Mousetrap for longest running show though. That show has been running in London with no breaks for 50 years. They have replaced the entire set between the final show on a Sunday evening and the first show on Tuesday evening 3 times over that span (Monday being the traditional off day).
Les Miserables has to be one of the most drawn out books in history....I got to page 1100 before I could no longer stand having it go off on yet another 50 page tangent on the merits of which type of flowers Napoleon put in his bathwater. I think it is the only book I have ever begun and stopped that far through.
MrS
p.s. Oh ya...I was never here. |
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