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| Yakko |
Diffrent take on Bring Him HomeIs there anyway someone could sing it angerliy since Valjean hated Maruis? |
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| EponineBarker |
*thinks* I don't think so...I mean, the lyrics themselves sound a lot like a prayer, so I think if someone were to sing it angrily, the emotion would contradict the lyrics. | ||||
| Mistress |
You can always do it reluctantly, as if he's in a conflict about the boy. He can be a littel resistant/reluctant at the beginning and let it slowly descend to acceptance that Marius is going to end up being Cosette's guardian whether he likes it or not.
Apparantly that's why some people like Drew Sarich in the role (I'm going by a reiew posted on here some time ago where the person made very similar comments) and I think Paula said the same thing about Hugh Panaro's BBH from that last production he was in... |
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| Vanessa20 |
Could anyone describe exactly how they did it? Because not having seen them, I can't imagine it being done that way without the mood clashing with the lyrics and confusing the audience. |
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| Yakko |
Well it's on youtube. |
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| Rose Des Enfers |
It would have be done really carefully... as much as one wants to stay true to the book, I don't know how "he's like the son I might have known" can sound angry. | ||||
| Paula74 |
Hugh's Valjean definitely had strong undercurrents of anger and conflict which I liked. It made for a very human Valjean...Hugh said he wasn't going to play Valjean as a one-dimensional saint and he succeeded, in my opinion. But his anger towards Marius was all summed up in the scene when Eponine brings Valjean the letter...in the way he crumpled it, then smoothed it out. It wasn't hate for Marius as a person since he didn't know the young man at all...only hate for *anyone* who would take away what he loved most and disturb the peace he'd created for himself and Cosette. But, then, at the barricades, when he realizes which of the students is Marius, you could see the hate dissolving as he realized that Marius was a decent young man and not some jerk making advance on his adopted daughter. So, there's no hate in his "Bring Him Home." Pain and still a little conflict because he knows that, if God hears his plea and lets Marius live, Cosette is lost to him as a daughter...but not hate. |
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| Mistress |
Ah, thank-you for clearing that up  ...my mind was a bit fuzzy.
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| UKDeer42 |
I think that's a brilliant addition to it I love it as well when they bring depth to their parts and I wish they'd do this in every production of Les Miz. I really do detest the one dimensional stage characters. I'm always a fan of odd and unusual things where they add things that stray far from the norm, like in foreign movies everything's always more realistic and less black and white than in Hollywood. I can give you a few examples if you want.
But singing "Bring Him Home" in an anrgy way? I think it could be achieved but it would be more relevant if they just changed the lyrics of the song or else they be sung in a sarcastic way. You would get initial conflicts, like if he hated Marius why would he save him from the barracades, but you could smooth them out. You could have him sing it in a dismissive style with a darker instrumentation and then have him save Marius because he knows how much Cosette loves him - or something like that. I know this is a bit off topic but I was rambling across the internet and I found this weird amateur recording of Les Miz when they called it "Bring Me Home".  The album itself is awful (terrible vocals with a MIDI orchestration - I could only find it on iTunes) and I wouldn't even recommend listening to the 30 second samples but I was just very curious at that typo and if you could make the song seem selfish as well.
Then again the album also lists "Do You Hear The Peoples Sing?" so I don't think this is one to think about, really. |