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Superstar83

LM in Paris?

I'm planning to visit Paris in September for my birthday, and I'm hoping that I can see LM while I'm there. But is it actually on in Paris right now, and if so, which theatre? Anyone know of any websites that might help me out with this? I've tried Google but I can't find anything that helps.
icedblue11

LM last ran in Paris in 1991-92, at the Mogador Theatre, it hasn't been staged since... Though, you can still buy the recordings of the 1991 Cast and the 1980 Concept Album Smile
Pounce

From what I've heard, the French aren't crazy about musical theater. Or at least not Broadway type musicals. You'd think the French would eat up Les Miz. Confused
Superstar83

icedblue11 wrote:
LM last ran in Paris in 1991-92, at the Mogador Theatre, it hasn't been staged since... Though, you can still buy the recordings of the 1991 Cast and the 1980 Concept Album Smile
I thought it might not be showing. Oh well, thanks. Maybe I can at least come back with some funky merchandise. Smile
Fantine

Superstar83 wrote:
icedblue11 wrote:
LM last ran in Paris in 1991-92, at the Mogador Theatre, it hasn't been staged since... Though, you can still buy the recordings of the 1991 Cast and the 1980 Concept Album Smile
I thought it might not be showing. Oh well, thanks. Maybe I can at least come back with some funky merchandise. Smile


Well there are many Les Miserables related things that you will find. A boat named 'Gavroche' for example Smile Then you could try to find the Rue Plumet...
http://www.v1.paris.fr/CARTO/Nomenclature/7542.nom.html
Moci

Or you could try to trace Javert's journey.

http://freespace.virgin.net/david.bean/lesmis/javsuc.htm
Fantine

Or find the place where they supposedly recorded Javert's suicide in the 1998 film...

Sheez... So many things I could do!! Wink

Well, having been to Montreuil Sur Mer just for... Well, you know... Must count as one of the craziest things in this area of the fandom Wink
The Very Angry Woman

Fantine wrote:
Or find the place where they supposedly recorded Javert's suicide in the 1998 film...


Wasn't that somewhere in Prague?
eponine5

Pounce wrote:
From what I've heard, the French aren't crazy about musical theater. Or at least not Broadway type musicals. You'd think the French would eat up Les Miz. Confused


One would think so, but it must be a little strange if you think about it. I mean, what would it be like if another country suddenly wrote this amazingly successful musical in another language all about 'Jane Eyre' or something like that?
The Very Angry Woman

eponine5 wrote:
One would think so, but it must be a little strange if you think about it. I mean, what would it be like if another country suddenly wrote this amazingly successful musical in another language all about 'Jane Eyre' or something like that?


Yeah, but "another country" didn't write Les Miz. Boublil and Sch�nberg both lived in France at the time. It just happened to debut outside France, with a mainly UK-based creative team, if that's what you're getting at.
Fantine

The Very Angry Woman wrote:
Fantine wrote:
Or find the place where they supposedly recorded Javert's suicide in the 1998 film...


Wasn't that somewhere in Prague?


Yes.
olly

Moci wrote:
Or you could try to trace Javert's journey.

http://freespace.virgin.net/david.bean/lesmis/javsuc.htm


That bridge wouldn't kill you if you jumped off it. I suppose one might catch hypothermia, however, the sheer height of the bridge is nowhere near enough to create enough momentum for one to kill oneself. Again, you may get dragged by the river, but as it's a river you'd just, most likely, get washed up on the side of the river.

My friend a couple of weeks ago in London was drunk, and thought it funny to jump off Hammersmith Bridge. It wasn't scary; it was funny - he wasn't hurt. But the idiot got arrested. The only one of our friends to have. The point is that jumping off a bridge like the one in the photo would not have killed Javert, surely.

Just a small technicality.
Orestes Fasting

olly wrote:
Moci wrote:
Or you could try to trace Javert's journey.

http://freespace.virgin.net/david.bean/lesmis/javsuc.htm


That bridge wouldn't kill you if you jumped off it. I suppose one might catch hypothermia, however, the sheer height of the bridge is nowhere near enough to create enough momentum for one to kill oneself. Again, you may get dragged by the river, but as it's a river you'd just, most likely, get washed up on the side of the river.

My friend a couple of weeks ago in London was drunk, and thought it funny to jump off Hammersmith Bridge. It wasn't scary; it was funny - he wasn't hurt. But the idiot got arrested. The only one of our friends to have. The point is that jumping off a bridge like the one in the photo would not have killed Javert, surely.

Just a small technicality.


Take a look at the text, though:

"Between the Pont Notre Dame and the Pont-au-Change, on the one hand, and the Quai de la M�gisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs, the Seine forms a sort of pool traversed by a swift current. It is a place feared by boatmen. Nothing is more dangerous than that current, aggravated in those days by the piles of the bridges, which have since been done away with. The current speeds up formidably, swelling in waves which seem to be trying to sweep the bridges away. A man falling into the river at this point, even a strong swimmer, does not emerge."

It wasn't the height that did him in. It was the rapids, which no longer exist.
Fantine

Aye.
Pounce

The Very Angry Woman wrote:
eponine5 wrote:
One would think so, but it must be a little strange if you think about it. I mean, what would it be like if another country suddenly wrote this amazingly successful musical in another language all about 'Jane Eyre' or something like that?


Yeah, but "another country" didn't write Les Miz. Boublil and Sch�nberg both lived in France at the time. It just happened to debut outside France, with a mainly UK-based creative team, if that's what you're getting at.

I think it "technically" debuted in Paris in 1980 and closed after a short run. It was moved to London and reworked as well as translated. I believe the major change was to expand the role of Jean Valjean. At least that is what I had heard.
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