I haven't seen Les Mis since I was 13. I was awfully impressed with the rotating stage. He's walking! But he stays in the middle of the stage!
Or a scrappy sixth man in the NBA.
He's walking! But he stays in the middle of the stage!
Making the Red Queen a man was a bit of a stretch, I thought.
Is this the Signature production? I didn't even notice the young Eponine.
I was awfully impressed with the rotating stage. He's walking! But he stays in the middle of the stage!
So true, so awesome. And yet Les Mis was one of the shows (along with Miss Saigon) that my set design teacher bemoaned led to people walking out of the theater "humming the set changes."
I was a little Les Mis freak in 8th grade. Saw it twice, knew all the songs, learned 'em on the piano. It came back to great effect twice: in college, I got angry at a friend who I was visiting in Boston, and chased him through the streets singing "Who Am I?" Also I once performed selections on the accordion in a drag competition.
Yes, it's the Signature production. (An experimental production to prove you can do it without a rotating stage or big theater.)
An experimental production to prove you can do it without a rotating stage or big theater.
I was surprised how well it worked in such intimate surroundings. I had seen it in London sometime in the early '90s and hadn't thought much of it. But this production I liked, particularly the middle sections, from about "Stars" to the death of Javert. Perhaps Nunn was wrong to make it such a big show.
I saw Les Miserables is London back in the late 80's and the tickets we got were literally about eight miles high and looking directly down on the performers' heads. So, it was hard to tell who was talking/singing at any given moment because you couldn't see anyone's face.
The rotating stage was cool, but our great altitude meant we could see behind the barricades, and there was this guy nonchalantly sweeping up and stuff while all the passion and fury in front was going on. So, not a great moment in theatre-going for me, though interesting. And at least it wasn't Cats.
This looks like a good production.
I had no idea what this post was referring to until I read the comments. The photo linked in 9 is pretty amazing.
And I can't find any video but there's a Kids in the Hall sketch that employs the song "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" to good affect.
Low's "In Metal" is kind of like Mazzy Star's "Fade Into Me", but not in that it makes good use of slide guitar.
"Fade Into You." Rhymes with "strange you never knew." Right?
God, you're right. I hang my head, ashamed.
But it doesn't rhyme with "Strange you left me".
Ned as always sees the heart of the matter.
I love her flat singing in that song. It's hard to do well.
This song reminds me a lot of Mazzy Star.