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Fiwen9430

lesmisloony wrote:
YKYOWLMWhen you hear someone singing At the End of the Day on your hall and sneak over to their room. Right when the foreman comes in you leap into the doorway and sing at the top of your lungs in an over-the-top Cockney accent.

New friend made.


That is awesome Loony. Brings back memories of this summer holiday, when I heard my friend singing Empty Chairs at Empty Tables in the bath, and was really tempted to correct the two verses that were the wrong way round, but I thought that might freak him out a little bit.
miraclemile

Fiwen9430 wrote:
Brings back memories of this summer holiday, when I heard my friend singing Empty Chairs at Empty Tables in the bath, and was really tempted to correct the two verses that were the wrong way round, but I thought that might freak him out a little bit.


I couldn't have helped myself... Embarassed At prelim meeting for Les Mis SE last week, our MD, who freely admits that despite knowing all the songs, he gets very confused about who actually sings them, was talking about ECAET, and asked 'So... is this Marius?' I automatically nodded and said yes. The other teacher however, managed to (somehow!?) proclaim that no, it was Enjolras. (Dear oh dear oh dear...) and I, very loudly, went 'No. It's MARIUS!' I am no longer holding out any hope of getting a part other than chorus, but really, I just couldn't help myself. I just hope she was the one person on that side of the room who managed not to hear me... Neutral

Oh, and Loony, that is amazing.
lesmisloony

You wake up all miserable and sick today but then remember what day it is and feel a little better.

I'm wearing my LM t-shirt and bracelet today. And I let my iPod play something besides Tanz der Vampire and Mozart l'Op�ra Rock for the first time in months.

Happy birthday, show!
Eppie-Sue

aww, loony.

Very Happy

YKYOWLMWhen the box office staff knows your name and how to spell it. And when you get a personal greeting by the FOH people. It's a bit sad, really.
lesmisloony

^That is AWESOME, not sad. Then again... I'm a bit biased, or so they say.

YKYOWLMWhen you're watching Beauty and the Beast and all you can think is Lumi�re = Courfeyrac.
(And Lefou = Grantaire... kind of.)


ETA: another one.
YKYOWLMWhen your friends are making jokes about whores reserving bits of the street and saying this corner belongs to this whore and that corner belongs to the other...
...and you feel compelled to start singing in ridiculous character voices.
"Whatcha think yer at? Hangin' round me pitch! If yer new around here, girl, you've got a lot to learn!"
"Listen, you old bat! Crazy bloody witch! 'Least I give me customers some pleasure in return."
"I KNOW WOT YOU GIVE!! GIVE 'EM ALL THE POX!"...
...and when they can't get you to stop they roll their eyes and leave the room, so you carry on.

Seriously. I didn't stop until I'd gotten partway through Red and Black and I got distracted by the balloon boy story on yahoo headlines.


Maybe I terrified some friends, but if they didn't get it... they don't DESERVE my friendship. Yeah. And I still have those girls from the unexpected LM party who live a few doors over.
Brackynn

YKYOWLMW, following being in a production of it, you make a list of all the pairs of cast members who had relationships in an attempt to see if any plausible/hilarious fanfiction could be created from them.

In case anyone's interested, the list of "pairings" was:
Enjolras / Cosette
Lesgles / Fantine
Courfeyrac / some random whore
Bishop of Digne / trinket-buying crone

Anyone inspired? Laughing
Eppie-Sue

I'd say Courfeyrac/random whore is pretty canon Wink

YKYOWLMWhen (and this is really embarrassing) as you go and buy a ticket, the lady at the box office winks at you and goes: "So, how many times have you seen it now?" (and no, I'm not in their database because I always pay cash and get the tickets at the box office and all) - and even though SHE clearly recognises you, YOU don't remember ever talking to her before!

and. even worse:

YKYOWLMWhen the nice FOH guy hands you one of those "London Theatre Guide" maps and looks at you sternly, going: "There are other shows, too, you know!?"

*facepalm*
Madeleine

Eppie-Sue wrote:
and. even worse:

YKYOWLMWhen the nice FOH guy hands you one of those "London Theatre Guide" maps and looks at you sternly, going: "There are other shows, too, you know!?"

*facepalm*


Seriously? Is that the same nice FOH guy who shook our hands on the way in on Saturday? That guy is a legend.

I think I should pick one of those up. I did actually used to see lots of other shows until the 2008/9 cast started, and I don't seem to have seen anything but Les Mis since the 2009/10 cast started. As a theatre student, that isn't too good really. Rolling Eyes Embarassed
curlyhairedsoprano91

Brackynn wrote:

Bishop of Digne / trinket-buying crone

Anyone inspired? Laughing


oh absolutely.
aquirkofmatter

Eppie-Sue wrote:
YKYOWLMWhen (and this is really embarrassing) as you go and buy a ticket, the lady at the box office winks at you and goes: "So, how many times have you seen it now?" (and no, I'm not in their database because I always pay cash and get the tickets at the box office and all) - and even though SHE clearly recognises you, YOU don't remember ever talking to her before!

Um, you will be in their database because you've booked in advance - the only time they're unlikely to take name and stuff is last minute door sales, because it's too time consuming; at least, that's what we do at where I work, I'm not sure about the West End. But you've been in and booked for the future, so they'll definitely have your name on their system.
Sorry, computing student who works in a theatre...
Eppie-Sue

No, no, I know that. But they don't take your name for next day's tickets, so she didn't even open her database. It's still very embarrassing. ... xD
Quique

When you are very sick and pretend to be the ailing Fantine in her deathbed!
Fiwen9430

When 1 of the rock types you are studying in your university project is called a minette and the only thing you can think of is Patron-Minette.
Orestes Fasting

You almost burst out laughing in a crowded library while doing your computer science homework, because somehow you ended up with a table of values called Val[] and variables called i, j, k, and l. And had to write "Val[j] = ....." fifty billion times while analyzing the efficiency of the Quicksort algorithm.

I don't know why this made me want to laugh so hard. Maybe the unexpectedness?
lomohart

hahaha...your posts were so funny!

you know you are addicted to Les Mis if you can relate to most of the posts made in this thread.
Dental Concord | Dentists Concord
Yakko

When you try to sing Bring Him Home even though your a baritone...
Quique

^ You're a dude? Always thought you were a chick. Shocked

I don't know what I am (I think I'm a baritone but not sure) but I find it extremely difficult to sing the last half of BHH. I have a pretty good falsetto so those notes aren't a problem. It's the "If I die, let me die" portion. It kicks my ass.

And that's very strange because I can sing Valjean's entire finale intro perfectly. How can that be? Unless it's actually in a lower key in the finale.

Maybe it's psychological? I always approach the song with much trepidation and constantly tell myself "it's extremely high." Weird litltle brain I have. :S
l'ivrogne transfigur�

Quique wrote:
And that's very strange because I can sing Valjean's entire finale intro perfectly. How can that be? Unless it's actually in a lower key in the finale.


They're in the same key, but whereas BHH gets up to an A, in the middle section ('How soon they fly') and the last note, whereas the finale only ever reaches a Gsharp ('Let me be'). It basically misses out the higher parts which are the middle and end of BHH.
Yakko

Quique wrote:
^ You're a dude? Always thought you were a chick. Shocked

I don't know what I am (I think I'm a baritone but not sure) but I find it extremely difficult to sing the last half of BHH. I have a pretty good falsetto so those notes aren't a problem. It's the "If I die, let me die" portion. It kicks my ass.

And that's very strange because I can sing Valjean's entire finale intro perfectly. How can that be? Unless it's actually in a lower key in the finale.

Maybe it's psychological? I always approach the song with much trepidation and constantly tell myself "it's extremely high." Weird litltle brain I have. :S



What made you think I was a woman???
marlalp

Yakko wrote:
When you try to sing Bring Him Home even though your a baritone...

LOL, how about when you try to sing BHH (and Stars) even though you're a soprano?
Quique

Yakko wrote:
What made you think I was a woman???


I have no clue, lol. You rarely talk about yourself so your gender was never clear. But why a chick? Hmm, maybe cause the majority of members that frequent the Les Mis forum are female? Heh.
AzelmaCombeferre9430

You know your're obsessed with Les Mis when...
1 When ever you see bread, you get temped to steal it.
2 You cried during Javert's Suicide
3 You are considering naming your first born daughter Cosette and your first born son Enjolras.
4 You constantly use the words "agog" and "aghast"
5 You give out a fangirlish SQUEE eveytime you see a red vest.
6 In History, when your teacher explains that empress Theodora (of Byzantine) was a prostitute, you and your friend yell out "OMG LIKE FANTINE!"
7 Everytime it rains, you start singing "A little Fall of Rain"
8 You read a 1463 page just because the musical is based on it. And loved it.
9 You are so frikkin happy that your school colors are red ("the blood of angry men") and black ("the dark of ages past")
10 When ever someone walks in late you say "Marius, you're late"
11 You are fictionally married to one of the characters (I'm Madame Combeferre)
12 You want to change your name to Patria Grantaire, because you think it will make Enjolras fall in love with you, even though everyone tells you he's not real and you are already fictionally married to Combeferre
13 When you went to that inn in New hampshire, you had to get your iPod out to listen Master of the House
14 You like stars. A lot
15 Whenever you're bored, you say "Who wants to build a barricade?"
16 On the band bus to the football games, you're constantly singing In My Life and heart Full of Love. Very Loudly and in very high soprano.
17 You've asked your parents countless times to go on a family vacation to London just to see it on stage.
18 Your mom saw it while she was pregnant with you...she hated it...but you ended up being born a month later as a child of the barricade.
19 Whenever something is happening tomorrow, you belt out "ONE DAY MORE!"
20 You heard "I dreamed a dream" before Susan Boyle stole it from Fantine.
21...And you've never even seen the musical.
Ricey

AzelmaCombeferre9430 wrote:
Everytime it rains, you start singing "A little Fall of Rain"

That sounds just like my friend (except i cant say On My Own, Castle, Cloud, I'm Here, Thats All I need To know (or anything simular) or In My Life because she will burst into song. The only time it fitted was when we were in a music lesson)

AzelmaCombeferre9430 wrote:
In History, when your teacher explains that empress Theodora (of Byzantine) was a prostitute, you and your friend yell out "OMG LIKE FANTINE!"


For me its everytime the word Reveloution gets metioned (this happens alot because we are learing about the industrial reveloution) and for me it was engish where I was reading about the term "Whores" and one person(who was quite stupid) was like "whats a whore?" and i said "its a lovely lady". Surprisingly they understood it when i said that...

AzelmaCombeferre9430 wrote:
Whenever something is happening tomorrow, you belt out "ONE DAY MORE!"


That reminds me of when we were in a libary and it was the day before we were going out to a party that we were looking forward to and someone said "One Day More" and my other friend joined in by saying "Another day, another destiny." and i joined in and we ended up singing in the middle of the libary (but everyone talks anyway).
I suppose im lucky that my friends happen to know Les Mis.
Quique

- When the into to "Lovely Ladies" begins to play in your head as you drive down a seedy, whorish part of downtown.

-When you want to regrow the tacky sideburns you had in high school--that caused much mocking and likening to THE KING--just because Javert sports them.

-When you wish to carry a night stick around with you.

-When you think of Javert every time you see a bridge.
aquirkofmatter

YKYOWLMW you have a unit which is abbreviated to ECAT and it's a very small class compared to the size of the lab we're in; there are lots of empty chairs at empty tables, and it's very distracting.
Muscialperformer92

You start to draw the characters in an cartoonish animestyle- like the ones in my signature

You see a huge gate to a house and thinks about Cosette and Rue Plumet. That happens all the time Wink I have often thought about climbing it just to be like Marius haha Wink

You walk alone in the night and suddenly feel an urge to sing "on my own"- that happens really often as well Wink
lesmisloony

YKYOWLMWhen you try to give passersby The Look that Cosette gave Marius just to make them fall in love with you. And to heartlessly exploit that.

Or when you're studying Ronsard in lit and you decide that this is the kind of thing Tholomy�s or, God forbid, Th�odule would say. If I get a second away from NaNo, I smell an oncoming fanfic.
looney-lovegood

YKYOWLM when you find it hilarious that your religion teacher calls all of the students at your school "lovely ladies", and turn red trying not to burst out laughing in the middle of an assembly when you realize this.
mezzo_soprano

You have a list of funny Les Mis stories, in the hope of someone actually caring to listen.
l'ivrogne transfigur�

When your roommate, who previously didn't know Les Mis, now knows all the tunes and is well on her way to knowing all the words...
What you own

mezzo_soprano wrote:
You have a list of funny Les Mis stories, in the hope of someone actually caring to listen.


When you would love to hear these funny Les Mies storys!


When you find out your school is doing Les Mies you squee!
Lauraa

What you own wrote:
mezzo_soprano wrote:
You have a list of funny Les Mis stories, in the hope of someone actually caring to listen.


When you would love to hear these funny Les Mies storys!


So would I Very Happy
I always like Les Mis stories...

And What you own, can I just ask, why do you ALWAYS put Les Mies?
kemathenga

... when you spend half a day making screenshots from the TAC-DVD on your laptop.
... when you after doing that save all thee screenshots on a usb-stick and then haunt the local drugstore trying to print them out as posters although the printer stubbornly states they're not "up to quality" (too dark).
...when you watch the TAC-DVD every other day.
...when your mobile identifies on bluetooth with "Enjolras"
...when you take off two sets of the three-volumes edition of "LEs Miserables" so you and your daughter can read it at the same time.
...when you think "Would Enjolras have been proud of me?" every time you did something brave (for your standards).
...when you buy a small bottle of red wine at the christmas-market as a present for Grantaire.
...when you print out this thread for inspiration.
...when you wake up in the morning smiling because you finally found this forum.
Very Happy
lovesinging

kemathenga wrote:
...when you wake up in the morning smiling because you finally found this forum.
Very Happy


Aw Smile
kemathenga

I forgot one:
..when you spend all your birthday money you've been saving since summer to go with your daughter to London in January to see Les Mis on stage.

And from my DD's perspective:
..when you tell your parents and grandparents you don't need any presents for christmas and your fifteenth birthday four days later because all you want is tickets for Les Miserables and a flight to London (and you GEt it!)

Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
Elbow

You won't regret it. The current London cast are amazing, give or take a couple of performers. (Or just one.)
Eppie-Sue

Elbow wrote:
You won't regret it. The current London cast are amazing, give or take a couple of performers. (Or just one.)


Laughing Maybe they're going on the 17th Dec. Or the 30th.
Hm, I'm coming back to London on the 30th after Christmas at home. I might go...

YKYOWLM when the theatre manager greets you in the street before a performance. It's getting worrying.
kemathenga

And another one:
...when you envy all the people who are living in or near London!!!!

We're going on January 2nd. I've got the confirmation of the ticket office and the plane tickets in a safe and placed a bullterrier in front.
Laughing
lovesinging

kemathenga wrote:
I forgot one:
..when you spend all your birthday money you've been saving since summer to go with your daughter to London in January to see Les Mis on stage.


Adopt me? Angel
kemathenga

I would but I'd have to ask my son first. In case you're female I'm sure he'd object, he has three sisters already.
Wink
KeepDancingThrough

- You just sat and read this entire thread in one sitting Rolling Eyes

- It took all day, because you clicked every link and kept getting very distracted by Les Mis�rables related sites Razz

- You kept seeing things which described you perfectly, and almost clicked reply but then realised that they were posts made over a year ago and it wouldn't make sense xD

- The only time you got up (other than for food and toilet breaks :/ ) was to go and watch an hour long documentary about Susan Boyle *mutters darkly under breath* because the Les Mis london cast are performing One Day More with her at some point and you had to watch the whole thing in case you missed it...
And then you realised that in your excitment you'd got the date wrong and it's actually on tomorrow night Laughing

- And of course, you were listening to Les Mis�rables during all of this Cool
lovesinging

kemathenga wrote:
I would but I'd have to ask my son first. In case you're female I'm sure he'd object, he has three sisters already.
Wink


Ah, shame. Laughing
Eponines_Hat

YKYOWLM when you are seriously considering missing an awesome Christmas Party just to see Jonathan Williams as JVJ again...
Lein

... When you go to see the show 7 times in 4 weeks because it closes afterwards...
... When you see the show twice a day...
... When you're crying your eyes out at the last performance
... When you find your way blind to the theater (while I normally will get lost in a station)
... When you come up with a Les Mis quote everywhere
... When you still miss the show... 10 months after closing... I want to see it!
kemathenga

... when you are asked to participate in a poll by your local theatre and answer as follows:

1. What worries you most when thinking about the future?
- That the Musical "Les Miserables" by Boublil/Sch�nberg is currently played only in London.

2. What would you suggest to do to improve the future?
- See to it that "Les Miserables" is played on as many stages as possible, the book read and discussed everywhere.

Laughing
riverdawn

When you have fear of flying, and you manage to control it by putting on the complete symphonic recording and singing along with it in your head for half the flight home.
Orestes Fasting

- Your Paris->London Eurostar train is cancelled due to weather, and instead of being disappointed that there are no flights left out of De Gaulle, you are excited that you have to do it the old-fashioned way... to Calais and a ship across the sea!

- You are standing in the Calais train station wondering how the heck to get to the ferry since it's a long way and the shuttle's been cancelled due to near-blizzard conditions, and you consider just giving up on London and getting a regional train to Montreuil-sur-Mer.

- The proximity of Calais and Montreuil-sur-Mer gives you strange, half-baked fanfiction ideas for an AU where Valjean and Cosette go to England after all and are forced to pass through Montreuil on the way.
kemathenga

We heard about trouble with the Eurostar on the news. Glad you're okay. And isn't that what Les Mis does to your life: provide you with something positive in the most awkward moments? I separated two of my children fighting the other day and started them giggling by asking: "What's the substance of this brawl?"
Laughing
riverdawn

When you get an Amazon Kindle for your birthday, and the first book to go on it is The Brick.
beyondthebarricade

MlleTholomy�s wrote:
YKYOWLMW. . .

You find yourself timing your coughs to fit within the beats of DYHTPS.


I was scratching my neck to that beat! And now my right hand is sore as I was lugging The Brick all over school orientation.
kemathenga

... when you talk your husband in giving you a tiny silver locket for christmas and then put photos of Enjolras and Grantaire in it.
Laughing
lovesinging

kemathenga wrote:
... when you talk your husband in giving you a tiny silver locket for christmas and then put photos of Enjolras and Grantaire in it.
Laughing


Brilliant.

...when you completely reorganize your summer because you learn about a local theatre doing putting on a version of Les Mis this summer, and you'd do anything to audition.
Hallie

YKYOWLM when you found this website yesterday and have already read alot of the threads even if you havent commented, when you're constantly listening to the soundtrack (as I am now), when you wake up every morning with a Les Mis song playing in your head and then have to listen to said song and then end up listening to the whole soundtrack, when you get sad that none of your family or friends like it as much as you, therefore you cant gab to them about it and when you watch the Albert Hall 10th anniversary dvd every 3 days or so...Oh, I feel better for that : )

BTW, these posts are really funny, I can relate to so many of them!! lol Its good to know Im not alone!!

Xx (",) xX
Elbow

You know you are obsessed with Les Mis when you use "LOOK OUT THERE'S A RUNAWAY CART!" as a term to point when you think someone is overreacting. I might need to explain that a bit - In the show I always laugh at The Runaway Cart scene, because it seems like such an OTT reaction to have to a small wooden cart,and therefore if I think something isa bit over the top, then I seem to have gotten into the habit of saying "LOOK OUT, THERE'S A RUNAWAY CART!"

How very sad.
Quique

^ I like that. Might use it sometime.
Hallie

I forgot a couple....when you have a dream you didnt get to the theatre on time, the show starts, you find your seats and then your dad makes you get up and go out to get some programmes and you end up basically missing the first act (had that dream before I saw it for the first time lol) and when you actually dream that you're in the show. I was Eponine in my dream haha Oh and when you watch that Susan Boyle show just because you've been told that the Les Mis cast will be performing on it at some point (I sat through the whole show and do you know what, it was worth it hehe love that song!!)

Xx (",) xX
kemathenga

... when you realize that your budgies in their cage are just imitating the first bars of "Do you hear the people sing". HOW often did we actually watch the TAC-DVD? LOL
Ricey

when you have to watch music festival at your school and two people sing "On My Own" and you have to resist the urge to sing along and you get really annoyed when they get the lyrics wrong or forget them compleatly.
Stars

-When your very parents tell you to shut up and turn down your music when you're singing to LM songs.

-When you fight back, and you sing louder and blast your music

-When your father marches up to you, says he "doesn't care that it isn't death metal, you've been listening to that &%^#*@^#@#*^% music the entire week nonstop, and if you don't put your headphones on I'll smash the computer in".
Alexia Dark

When you have done the school edition with a sometimes abysmal rehearsal process, and still volunteer to help out with another school edition production in the summer.
Javert's Truncheon

When you have over 1000 posts on here.....
beyondthebarricade

YKWYOWLMW:

- You meet up with your cousin and her boyfriend and tell them about Les Mis, and they go "Ohh! I Dreamed a Dream" and they have to put up with a half and hour lecture on how Les Mis extends beyond Susan Boyle. (Frankly, there seem to be too many ANDs here)

- Your dad knows the melody to some songs like ALFOR/MotH although he has no interest whatsoever in any musicals and has in fact, fallen asleep during most of them.

- You write all over your friends' Facebook walls when you found out Killian Donnelly was on as Valjean instead of just putting it as a status as you want to make sure that there's no way they'll miss that.

- Your friend (who absolutely hates Les Mis because of how much you talk about it to her) is making you a charm bracelet with Les Mis characters on them just to shut you up.

Uh-oh.
l'ivrogne transfigur�

Javert's Truncheon wrote:
When you have over 1000 posts on here.....


Yeah, over a period of 2 and a quarter years.

Also, when you automatically think 'Why is Jeff e-mailing me?' when you get an e-mail from 'Nicholson J.' from college reception...
riverdawn

When you've seen the show on Thursday and on Saturday, and you've got a ticket for next week - but when you find you have to go to the British Library to do more research, you start seriously considering going again today.... Embarassed


Also, when you've spent half your weekend hitting the "refresh" button on this forum in the hopes that someone will have actually posted detailed reviews of Killian's performance (*hint**hint*)... Razz
Javert's Truncheon

riverdawn wrote:
When you've seen the show on Thursday and on Saturday, and you've got a ticket for next week - but when you find you have to go to the British Library to do more research, you start seriously considering going again today.... Embarassed


Also, when you've spent half your weekend hitting the "refresh" button on this forum in the hopes that someone will have actually posted detailed reviews of Killian's performance (*hint**hint*)... Razz


Who is Killian ? I have noticed his name mentioned on a couple of previous posts. Perhaps I am showing my ignorance here. I haven't seen the London show in a little while and am not on first name terms, as it were. Good is he? Interesting.
Eppie-Sue

Javert's Truncheon wrote:
Who is Killian ? I have noticed his name mentioned on a couple of previous posts. Perhaps I am showing my ignorance here. I haven't seen the London show in a little while and am not on first name terms, as it were. Good is he? Interesting.


Oh. On a couple of previous posts? Like, I don't know...

beyondthebarricade wrote:
- You write all over your friends' Facebook walls when you found out [Killian Donnelly was on as Valjean] instead of just putting it as a status as you want to make sure that there's no way they'll miss that.


Too self-explanatory?!
Javert's Truncheon

Eppie-Sue wrote:
Javert's Truncheon wrote:
Who is Killian ? I have noticed his name mentioned on a couple of previous posts. Perhaps I am showing my ignorance here. I haven't seen the London show in a little while and am not on first name terms, as it were. Good is he? Interesting.


Oh. On a couple of previous posts? Like, I don't know...

beyondthebarricade wrote:
- You write all over your friends' Facebook walls when you found out [Killian Donnelly was on as Valjean] instead of just putting it as a status as you want to make sure that there's no way they'll miss that.


Too self-explanatory?!


Sorry. Didn't understand that reply.
MlleTholomy�s

Javert's Truncheon wrote:
riverdawn wrote:
When you've seen the show on Thursday and on Saturday, and you've got a ticket for next week - but when you find you have to go to the British Library to do more research, you start seriously considering going again today.... Embarassed


Also, when you've spent half your weekend hitting the "refresh" button on this forum in the hopes that someone will have actually posted detailed reviews of Killian's performance (*hint**hint*)... Razz


Who is Killian ? I have noticed his name mentioned on a couple of previous posts. Perhaps I am showing my ignorance here. I haven't seen the London show in a little while and am not on first name terms, as it were. Good is he? Interesting.


Killian Donnelly? He's one of the main understudies, if you'll forgive my ignorance of theatre terms.
Javert's Truncheon

MlleTholomy�s wrote:
Javert's Truncheon wrote:
riverdawn wrote:
When you've seen the show on Thursday and on Saturday, and you've got a ticket for next week - but when you find you have to go to the British Library to do more research, you start seriously considering going again today.... Embarassed


Also, when you've spent half your weekend hitting the "refresh" button on this forum in the hopes that someone will have actually posted detailed reviews of Killian's performance (*hint**hint*)... Razz


Who is Killian ? I have noticed his name mentioned on a couple of previous posts. Perhaps I am showing my ignorance here. I haven't seen the London show in a little while and am not on first name terms, as it were. Good is he? Interesting.


Killian Donnelly? He's one of the main understudies, if you'll forgive my ignorance of theatre terms.


Many thanks
beyondthebarricade

MlleTholomy�s wrote:
Javert's Truncheon wrote:
riverdawn wrote:
When you've seen the show on Thursday and on Saturday, and you've got a ticket for next week - but when you find you have to go to the British Library to do more research, you start seriously considering going again today.... Embarassed


Also, when you've spent half your weekend hitting the "refresh" button on this forum in the hopes that someone will have actually posted detailed reviews of Killian's performance (*hint**hint*)... Razz


Who is Killian ? I have noticed his name mentioned on a couple of previous posts. Perhaps I am showing my ignorance here. I haven't seen the London show in a little while and am not on first name terms, as it were. Good is he? Interesting.


Killian Donnelly? He's one of the main understudies, if you'll forgive my ignorance of theatre terms.


Well technically, he's a swing, which means he understudies many different parts and plays them when the actors of those parts have to go cover for the principals who aren't performing. But he's second understudy Enjolras and Javert.
Eppie-Sue

YKYOWLM when you can't stay away from MdN to save your life.
riverdawn

Quote:

YKYOWLM when you can't stay away from MdN to save your life.


Well, I for one think it's nice to have you back. Smile
beyondthebarricade

riverdawn wrote:
Quote:

YKYOWLM when you can't stay away from MdN to save your life.


Well, I for one think it's nice to have you back. Smile


Very Happy Are you coming back permently, or just to inform us when something extraordinary happens? And if it's the former....reviews?
Eppie-Sue

Um, I don't know. It's not that big of a deal, sorry, didn't want it to become any kind of topic... I don't really give it that much thought. Whenever I feel like posting, I'll probably post.

Anyway.

YKYOWLM when you don't have to show a ticket anymore to get into the Queen's.
Alexia Dark

YKYOWLM when you agree to let your friend record you singing every single part in One Day More, and then post it on youtube.

Yeah, it happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPrlLHN5wA
riverdawn

Alexia - that's hilarious. And kind of awesome.

I like how you did different "voices" for each part.
The sound editing on this is pretty good as well. Smile
riverdawn

YKYOWLM when you watch a television show that has nothing to do with Les Mis, and you find yourself casting the actors in that show into various Les Mis roles...
lovesinging

riverdawn wrote:
YKYOWLM when you watch a television show that has nothing to do with Les Mis, and you find yourself casting the actors in that show into various Les Mis roles...


So very true.
MlleTholomy�s

YKYOWLMW you see a "Captain Az�ma" in a book, and although it's supposed to be a srs bsns moment, you can't take him seriously because all you think is Azelma.
Paula74

When you have a very vivid dream that you're in a dougnut shop and there's a flat screen TV near the tables. A video of the Walnut Street production (with a few minor set/costume changes and a few of the ensemble in different roles) is playing on the screen and there's an enormous TV Guide on the counter. According to the guide - which is easily the size of a phonebook - it's one of THREE performances on video. The other two being the original Broadway cast and the TAC. The guide also notes that the original Broadway video will not be aired because "market research shows that only 47% of Mizzie fans will watch it."

You wake up - during the Runaway Cart scene - furious and wanting to prove that the market research was wrong.
operafantomet

...you think it's utterly awesome that Les Mis cast members post nerdy Les-Mis-Paris-holiday pictures in their Facebook... Laughing
lovesinging

operafantomet wrote:
...you think it's utterly awesome that Les Mis cast members post nerdy Les-Mis-Paris-holiday pictures in their Facebook... Laughing


*wishes she could see*
Eppie-Sue

... I don't think it's particularly fair to the cast members to talk about facebook profiles here, actually.
lovesinging

Eppie-Sue wrote:
... I don't think it's particularly fair to the cast members to talk about facebook profiles here, actually.


Which is why I didn't ask who it was, etc.
operafantomet

lovesinging wrote:
Eppie-Sue wrote:
... I don't think it's particularly fair to the cast members to talk about facebook profiles here, actually.


Which is why I didn't ask who it was, etc.


And why I didn't mention names or even which production.
Inspector Javert

- When you write a major paper and presentation about the culture of France just so you can mention Les Miserables once Laughing
beyondthebarricade

YKYOWLMW

during a music class in school, your teacher says that you will be studying Les Mis 3 years later, and he plays One Day More as a preview of what you'd be learning. He says "See in ODM all the characters appear and sing their own melodies." Then your hand shoots up and says "No Eponine Enjolras Marius and Cosette use Fantine's IDAD melody! And Javert's personal melody is Stars but he sings the Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven melody!" And when he plays a recording of IDAD saying "This is Lea Salonga," you shout back "No this is definitely Ruthie Henshall! This is during the Les Mis TAC. Lea was Eponine, and she only played Fantine in the B'way revival in 2006, and AFAIK, there hasn't been any recordings of that."

I think he hates me.
Eppie-Sue

This is really embarrassing.

YKYOWLM when...
...you're thinking about getting a ticket to watch Alice In Wonderland in the cinema, and the first thing that comes to your mind regarding buying it in advance is: "Oh, but you never know who might be on!"

Yeah. Trust me, I know.
Orestes Fasting

Eppie-Sue wrote:
This is really embarrassing.

YKYOWLM when...
...you're thinking about getting a ticket to watch Alice In Wonderland in the cinema, and the first thing that comes to your mind regarding buying it in advance is: "Oh, but you never know who might be on!"

Yeah. Trust me, I know.


That's why you go on a Sunday! Laughing
mm10

When you suddenly realize that the next bank holiday is a Wednesday and you wonder if you could manage London in a day to do a matinee
Eppie-Sue

Orestes Fasting wrote:
Eppie-Sue wrote:
This is really embarrassing.

YKYOWLM when...
...you're thinking about getting a ticket to watch Alice In Wonderland in the cinema, and the first thing that comes to your mind regarding buying it in advance is: "Oh, but you never know who might be on!"

Yeah. Trust me, I know.


That's why you go on a Sunday! Laughing

No, no. You misunderstood. It was: "Oh, but you never know might be on IN THE MOVIE."
riverdawn

When you knew you were going to be in England for five weeks, and you promised yourself you were only going to get three tickets: one to see the regular cast, one to see MarkJolras, one to see AntonyMarius...

And yet somehow in that time period you *actually* found yourself as an audience member at the Queen's about seven times. Embarassed

Well, at least I got to see both Jonathan and Simon on as Valjean on performances that weren't amongst the three ones I had originally planned, so that's practically an excuse.... right?
riverdawn

YKYOWLM when you write a facebook status about something important happening tomorrow, and your non-Mizzie friends already know that the appropriate response is "One day more!"
Narcissist

...you try to write your name (which starts with a 'B') but end up accidentally writing "Barricade" instead

...you slept with your head to the north and your feet to the south for years but now sleep the opposite way because of Joly.
Mezzo-Soprano-Mizzie

When you get a word search in science and the first thing you do is start looking for Les Mis characters. (I found Joly!)
BrOaDwAy BaBy 1993

lesmisloony wrote:


-you actually consider buying the 98 movie or a copy of 'Cosette,' just because it's LM related and going cheap on eBay... and then you decide that you should punish yourself (Arthur Dimmesdale-style) for even letting such a throught cross your mind.



Personally, I loved 'Cosette.' It was good. Nowhere near The Brick, but good.
PureDiamondLight

YKYOWLM when you return from London having see the show for a second time and, being an artist, promptly spend hours drawing this picture:

http://purediamondlight.deviantart.com/art/Until-the-Earth-is-Free-161668595

using the teeny tiny pictures from the promotional leaflet as a guide.
riverdawn

Ooh, that's very pretty!
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KatyRoseLand

PureDiamondLight wrote:
YKYOWLM when you return from London having see the show for a second time and, being an artist, promptly spend hours drawing this picture:

http://purediamondlight.deviantart.com/art/Until-the-Earth-is-Free-161668595

using the teeny tiny pictures from the promotional leaflet as a guide.


That's amazing! And so are all your other pictures, you're very talented!

YKYOWLM when you think you see the words "Brick Reference" in a Powerpoint presentation someone's giving at work, and you get quite disproportionately excited. Then you read it properly. "Block Reference". Oh.
lovesinging

PureDiamondLight wrote:
YKYOWLM when you return from London having see the show for a second time and, being an artist, promptly spend hours drawing this picture:

http://purediamondlight.deviantart.com/art/Until-the-Earth-is-Free-161668595

using the teeny tiny pictures from the promotional leaflet as a guide.


That picture is so much win. You even included the hug! Epic.
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