#+ production of les miserables

[nonbinarychaoticstupid]

i mentioned this in the tags of another post somewhere but there rly is something so theatre kid core insane in rehearsing les mis and learning how to build a barricade and playing the role of a student in the rebellion at the same time as an awful winter is descending on you and you have no real way of knowing how much money you're going to have left and the coronation of king charles, which will most likely be millions of pounds worth of money spent on watching another racist idiot put a hat on, seems to be a more important use of the government's expenses than feeding and heating the homes of the rest of the country. like idk i really would love to hear the people fucking sing. or something.

#sep texxt #just in case you forgot i'm a theatre kid #another important factor is that at this time i was slowly becoming more and more of an anarcho-communist #its like. pov you're 17 year old me channeling all your rage and leftism into singing fucking one day more in your secondary school + #+ production of les miserables #we could barely even afford to buy the stuff for my costume so i had to borrow like half of it from a friend #i do have some pictures of my costume somewhere actually i did look great #i was also the captain in lovely ladies #and part of the chain gang at the start #and i was in master of the house too as part of the chorus of the inn #so sorry to zaphod and enid who have had to hear me ramble about this for several months straight #and to mercy to whom my rebellion costume looked like that of a confederate soldier #building the barriade (which we did with bits of wooden furniture) was great but awful for my joints g-dbless #<- disabled

[to23623ken]

I don't like that Javert is not in the Epilogue. I don't like the "he's in hell, the Epilogue takes place in heaven so he can't be in the song" I hate it, I think in Les Mis there shouldn't be hell nor heaven, there should be just afterlife, that's so much beautiful to me. Also Javert not being in the Finale is such a missed opportunity to do a "silent" but really emotional moment between him and Valjean finding each other in paradise

#les mis #les miserables #javert #the production I was in actually included Javert in the epilogue #not only that but Valjean and Javert hugged #Javert was also in Valjean's death

[wanderinghedgehog]

Just watched a recording of a community theater production of Les Mis. It has taught me three things. Small theaters are great actually, the acting is best when people are having fun, and it’s kinda funny when they stage Javert’s suicide so that he falls from the back of the bridge instead of the front and they put a mattress behind the wall so the actor doesn’t die but when he falls the audience can hear very clearly the sound of him hitting the mattress.

#the orchestra was playing their reprise of stars and then WHAM #I think every production should do this #les mis #les miserables #musicals #community theater

[javertautismtruther]

Fucking wild that Les Mis announced a Concert World Tour and they DID NOT include France in the country listing

#manifesting an actual French production then #BringHerHome2023 #les mis #les miserables #les mis musical

[ruedesfillesducalvaire]

this is such a bizarre take on les misérables i love this

#a great rags to riches story #les misérables is all about how if you try your hardest you too can make your fortune in bead production despite your criminal past! #les mis #les mis 1978 #les miserables #les misérables #les mis reviews #sylvie's own nonsense

[thepiecesofcait]

Tis the season.

#I've had zero time to work on anything new #so please accept this tidied piece i drafted after my manic miserables month in 2020 #but have never gotten around to inking #Barricade Day #Les Miserables #Enjolras #TW Death #Cait Makes #Digital Art #i miss having time to draw #cant complain atm though as my time is being chewed up with DIRECTING A PRODUCTION OF LES MIS

[fruity-pontmercy]

Les Mis adaptations and apolitical appropriation

I think it's no secret on this blog that I love the original Les Mis 1980 concept album in French, and that I also love comparing different versions of the stage musical. I've noticed that Les Mis seems to get progressively more vaguely apolitical as time goes on, not only in the way it's viewed in our culture, but in the actual text as well.

It's natural for specifics to be lost in adaptation. It's easier to get people to care about 'the people vs. the king' in a relatively short musical rather than actually facing the audience with the absolute mess that were 19th century french politics (monarchist orleanists vs monarchist legitimists vs imperialist vs bonapartist democrats vs every flavour of republican imaginable). Still, I feel that as time goes on, as more revivals and adaptations of the stage musical come out, the more watered down its politics become. Like, Les Mis at it's core is just meant to be a fancily written, drawn out political essay, right?

In a way I feel that the 1980 concept album almost tried to modernise it with its symbols of progress. Yes, through Enjolras' infamous disco segment (and other similar allusions to the ideals of social change), but perhaps most interestingly to me, through one short line that threw me off when I first heard it, because it seems so insignificant, but might actually be the most explicitly leftist line of all of Les Mis.

"Son coeur vibrait à gauche et il le proclama" (roughly "His heart beat to the left and he proclaimed it" i.e: he was a leftist) Feuilly says, while speaking of the now dead général Lamarque in Les Amis de L'ABC.

What's that? An actual mention of leftism??? in MY vaguely progressive yet apolitical musical??? More seriously, this mention of leftism, clashing with the rest of the musical due to it's seeming anachronism, is interesting not because it's actually more political than anything else in Les Mis, rather, because it's not scared to explicitly name what it's trying to do.

But we've come a long way from the Concept Album days, it's been 43 years, and Les Misérables is now one of the most famous and beloved musicals in the entire world. It's been revived and reimagined and adapted in a million ways, in different mediums, in different languages and countries, and it's clear that it's changed along with it's audience.

On top of pointing out a cool line in my favourite version of the musical, I wanted to write this post to reflect on the perception of the political message of this work. We as a Les Mis fandom on Tumblr are very political, I don't need to tell you that, however, I feel that because this very left leaning space has sprung out of a work we all love so much, we oftentimes forget to revisit it from a more objective point of view.

Les Misérables has a history of being misrepresented, this has been true since it's publication, since american confederate soldiers became entranced with their censored translation Lee's Miserables. However, with it's musical adaptation, this misinterpretation has been made not only more accessible but also easier. As much as I love musical theatre and I think it is at it's best an incredible art form able to communicate complex themes visulally by the masses for the masses, I think it'd be idealistic to ignore the fact that the people who can afford to go see musicals regularly are, usually, not the common folk. Broadway and the West End are industries which, like most, need money to keep them afloat, and are loved people of all political backgrounds (and unfortunately, often older conservatives) not just communists on tumblr. We've seen the way Les Miz UK's social media team constantly misses the mark regarding different social issues, and the way Cameron Makintosh has used the musical to propagate his transphobia, and most of us can agree that these actions are in complete antithesis with the message of Les Misérables as a novel.

But I must ask, how does Les Mis ,as a West End musical in it's current form, actually drive a leftist message, and how are we as a community helping if every time someone relating to the musical messes up if we just claim they "don't get it"?

I'm thinking in particular of incidents like last october, where Just Stop Oil crashed Les Mis at the West End. Whether you think it's good activism or not is not the question I think, this instance is interesting particularly because it shows that, outside of Les Misérables analysis circles and fandom spaces, it is not recognised as an inherently leftist, political or activist work, and instead of just saying they completely missed the point of the musical, I think it'd be interesting to take a step back and look at what the musical as it stands actually represents in our culture today.

I don't pretend to have all the answers, so I won't try to give one, but I do hope we can reflect on this a bit.

#this is my first time making a well thought out les Mis post in possibly like 2 years PLEASSEEE BE NICE #wrote this instead of listening to my Marxist Philosophy lecture so i hope it technically counts as productive procrastination #Btw in this i use Les Mis when reffering to the musical and Les Misérables when talking about the book (and Les Miz talking about the #west end musical so) #les mis #les miserables #les miz #les amis de l'abc #the brick #musical theatre #enjolras #litblr #meta analysis #media analysis

[comediesmusicales]

Concept art for the costumes of the 2024 Paris production of Les Misérables

#les misérables #les miserables #2024 Paris revival production

[mondschein14]

One of my favorite performances of Javert's Suicide by Christian Alexander Müller (from the 2004 Berlin production)

Also do you hear that electric guitar at 01:47? It reminds me of the Symphonic recording

#ALSO GUYS THIS YEAR THERE IS A GERMAN LES MIS PRODUCTION IN MUNICH #AHHH #les miserablés #les miserables #javert #javert's suicide

[someofitwastrue]

wait i love how everyone else is also freaking out about kyle adams as grantaire bc his performance is the reason why im back on les mis tumblr

#sorry if this is old news i just saw the newer(?) production last week and GOD!!!!!!! #had to debrief the bf afterwards and 99% of it was kyle adams as grantaire #gavroches death……. drink w me…….. THE FINAL BATTLE SCENE…. #i will think of u forever kyle adams grantaire #les mis #les miserables #grantaire #mine

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Les Miserables and The Fantastic Beasts Reunion in one night!!

Jean Valjean met Marius Pontmercy as Newton Scamander met Leta Lestrange!!

How many of you would have liked to be there?

So this happened tuesday night after the Cabaret show!!

Photographer Jenny Anderson

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#jean valjean #marius pontmercy #eddie redmayne #hugh jackman #leta lestrange #newton scamander #reunion #les miserables #fantastic beasts #cabaret #cabaret new production #cabaret nyc #eddie redmayne cabaret #broadway #august wilson theatre #the emcee #black and white #new photos #after show #olivier awards #winner #tony winner

[keepthyfaithandthylight]

Very disgruntled over one of my favorite musicals no longer being on netflix.

So, by default, here is a somewhat rushed, low effort etc. drawing of Enjolras.

#les miserables #les mis #ktfatl draws #Lucie draws #Lucie likes musicals #it’s always been a dream of mine to be in a production of this musical #enjolras #art #fanart

[wanderinghedgehog]

Watching another high school Les Mis and I ran into the oddest lyric change in Fantine’s Arrest. Y’all know Javert’s line “let him give a full description, let him answer to Javert.” Well this production switched “him” to “them” for some reason. Like I’m all for inclusivity, but this is not the character you want to showcase that with. This scene is literally a perfect example of the ways Fantine is at a disadvantage when it comes to conflicts with the law. She’s a poor sex worker in the early 19th century. Her side of the story was never going to be heeded. This is why the pronoun switch confuses me. It implies a certain level of impartiality on Javert’s part that simply is not present. He immediately takes Bamatabois‘s word and uses that to justify arresting Fantine. Javert wasn’t looking for just any well meaning witness to speak up, he defaulted to listening to the “respectable” man. His closed-mindedness is kinda the point.

#I honestly did not mean for this to turn into a mini essay #I really thought I could make a joke and move on #anyway no hate to this production #I’m rather enjoying the performances and this is a very small lyric change #les mis #les miserables #fantine’s arrest #rambling

[silver-dusted-scribbles]

okay so i’m looking for a specific version of "drink with me" and i'm hoping someone can help? i remember in grantaire's solo he sang "NOTHING at all" really forcefully/angrily, and then almost broke down a bit on "is your life just one more life." There might have been a Moment with him and enjolras after but ik that doesn't narrow it down much. literally anything y'all could offer to help find it would be amazing!

#look for all i know this could have been a production i saw live #or i'm just straight-up imagining it #but i’m gonna keep looking anyway #les mis #les miserables #les amis #grantaire #enjolras

[feuillant]

Les Mis — Polish production in Lodz, 17.VI.2023

At the barricade, just before "Drink With Me" Courfeyrac and Grantaire teach Gavroche to read.

#les mis #les miserables #grantaire #courfeyrac #gavroche #les mis pl #special moments from polish production

[thepiecesofcait]

Thinking about Amis meetings by candlelight and how unfamiliar I am with a light source coming from that direction.

High quality and detail shot below the cut!

Freckly Enjolras my beloved

Tumblr stop compress-blurring every picture I upload to heck challenge 2k24.

#Enjolras #Les Amis #Les Miserables #I cant get this eye right #but i am hoping to stop overthinking every almost finished drawing i have and just #post it anyway! #vest inspired by the floral fabric we found for our local production #cait makes #digital art #canon era