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RyanJ	LM Parody I'm writing a one-act parody of Les Mis for a playwrighting competition and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Just something any of you thought was funny about the show, stuff like that. I'm not out to slander Les Mis or anything, don't get me wrong. Send me an IM my screenname is OneMoreDomino.
Kragey	I have a Les Mis webcomic I work on from time to time, so I'm stealing a few ideas from that: Eponine must have a really whiny voice and squeal "PITY ME!" randomly. Valjean should be played by a soprano and sing a parody of "Bring Him Home." Javert has an unrequited crush on Valjean like woah. Cosette has to be really sweet and helpful, but someone always misinterprets her actions and pelts her with rocks/rotten fruit/etcetera. Eponine drags "A Little Fall of Rain" for so long that Marius either: 1) drops her and leaves, or 2) tells her to just shut up and die already. One of the revolutionaries shoots Gavroche during a particularily obnoxious song. EDIT: Wow. That prompted me to look over some of the older ones, and I opened the second comic--which I finished right before joining MDN--and the name I found there cracked me up. (I'm easily amused.)
dramatic_mizfit	Kragey wrote: Javert has an unrequited crush on Valjean like woah. That phrasing cracks me up.
Kragey	dramatic_mizfit wrote: Kragey wrote: Javert has an unrequited crush on Valjean like woah. That phrasing cracks me up. We JUST got the cast list for Wizard of Oz today, and I immediately piped up, "THE WITCH HAS AN UNREQUITED LOVE FOR DOROTHY LIEK ZOAHMAHGAWD WOAH." Twas amusing.
RyanJ	LOL! man, i've just been inspired like whoa. thanks! (like whoa)
dramatic_mizfit	HAHA! I've started using that phrase. It's crazy man, like woah.
mizzie	Kragey wrote: I have a Les Mis webcomic I work on from time to time, so I'm stealing a few ideas from that: I want the link to this like woah!
Kragey	mizzie wrote: Kragey wrote: I have a Les Mis webcomic I work on from time to time, so I'm stealing a few ideas from that: I want the link to this like woah! I post it in my f-locked livejournal, but I'm thinking about maybe making a little geoshitties site for it. In the mean time, though...
mizzie	Kragey wrote: mizzie wrote: Kragey wrote: I have a Les Mis webcomic I work on from time to time, so I'm stealing a few ideas from that: I want the link to this like woah! I post it in my f-locked livejournal, but I'm thinking about maybe making a little geoshitties site for it. In the mean time, though... Oh, you must! That was adorable!
Casey05	LM Parody In Forbidden Broadway, they sent up the whole "revolving stage" thing by - at the end of one musical number - having all of the actors mime the revolving stage spinning them offstage. The funny part was Fantine (I think?) frantically trying to grab onto set pieces in an attempt to stay onstage. Depending on which scenes you want to include, here are some ideas: Rather than gunfire for the barricade scenes, you could have laser "phings" and "phangs". Even better, the students could be fighting with laser guns or lightsabers lol. Eponine could be played in drag by a man, with Marius being utterly repulsed by her advances.
Megan the Phantom Girlie	For the battle, I ask you to borrow some3thing from my Richard III play: Chaos erupts as the stage is flooded with people wielding any random weapons the actors can scrounge up- longpikes, swords, arrows, guns, toy laser guns, tasers, toy lightsabers, blasters, boards with nails through them, grenades, bowling balls, wooden spoons, duct tape, lassos, lawn chairs, cybernetic implants, chattering windup teeth, large books, steak knives, butter knives, rocks, finger armor, brass knuckles, boomboxes playing Enya music- the list could go on and on. Eventually a lot of the warriors end up in the aisles of the theater. It also had people riding hobbyhorses, but that's because it was Shakespeare. To get an idea of how this'll look, watch the Battle of the Newscasters in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which came out after I wrote my Richard play but fit the idea pretty well ("There were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed some guy with a trident!").
Kragey	Megan the Phantom Girlie wrote: boomboxes playing Enya[/i] Dude. Never underestimate the power that is Enya.
Eponine Poe	Cosette must be annoying, clingy, and cast of Jean Valjean like Lear's bad daughters do in 'King Lear'. XD Eponine should give long, angsty monologues about EVERYTHING, and constantly break into loud, fake sobs, until other cast members shove her offstage. Javert should be incredibly OCD-ish, and, as someone else says, have a huge crush on Valjean.
Eponine Poe	Oops, I forgot about Enjy! ^_^ We must not forget Enjy. Enjolras should be this crazy, maniacal, suicide-bomberish guy who always has a crazed look on his face and carries several rifles, a bayonet, a sword, and and a handful of grenades wherever he goes.
Kragey	Eponine Poe wrote: Oops, I forgot about Enjy! ^_^ We must not forget Enjy. Enjolras should be this crazy, maniacal, suicide-bomberish guy who always has a crazed look on his face and carries several rifles, a bayonet, a sword, and and a handful of grenades wherever he goes. Oh, dear God, that'd make my day! Especially if he went off on random tangents during his speeches.
Megan the Phantom Girlie	[ Quote: quote]Eponine Poe wrote: Oops, I forgot about Enjy! ^_^ We must not forget Enjy. Enjolras should be this crazy, maniacal, suicide-bomberish guy who always has a crazed look on his face and carries several rifles, a bayonet, a sword, and and a handful of grenades wherever he goes. Oh, dear God, that'd make my day! Especially if he went off on random tangents during his speeches.[/quote] He must also be of unspecified orientation and make obtuse comments about Grantaire's "package".
Kragey	Megan the Phantom Girlie wrote: He must also be of unspecified orientation and make obtuse comments about Grantaire's "package". I've yet to see a production of Les Mis were at least one of the revolutionaries didn't come off as a flaming homosexual. It's usually Joly, though.
nicnikniki	Kragey wrote: I've yet to see a production of Les Mis were at least one of the revolutionaries didn't come off as a flaming homosexual. It's usually Joly, though. *Pisses self laughing* Oh how immature of me.
Kragey	nicnikniki wrote: Kragey wrote: I've yet to see a production of Les Mis were at least one of the revolutionaries didn't come off as a flaming homosexual. It's usually Joly, though. *Pisses self laughing* Oh how immature of me. See, that's the funny part: they're never just "a bit feminine," they're always total queens running around on stage or molesting the other men. (Not that I don't enjoy that sort of thing, but really! Let's show some decorum!)
kiya18	A spoof of "Red and Black" would provide the perfect opportunity to mock Enjolras, Marius or whichever revolutionary you chose. There's so much in there that's spoof-able.
Mr_X	Aw man...I was Joly...
Kragey	Mr_X wrote: Aw man...I was Joly... Erm, so what? A good 50% of the Les Mis fangirls imagine barricade lurve. I, of course, am innocent of that crime. I prefer barricade orgies.
Orestes Fasting	Kragey wrote: Mr_X wrote: Aw man...I was Joly... Erm, so what? A good 50% of the Les Mis fangirls imagine barricade lurve. I, of course, am innocent of that crime. I prefer barricade orgies. 50%? No, no, the percentage is much higher than that. Especially among the fangirls who've read the book, because at that point you don't need much imagination at all to make Joly flamingly gay.
Kragey	Orestes Fasting wrote: Kragey wrote: Mr_X wrote: Aw man...I was Joly... Erm, so what? A good 50% of the Les Mis fangirls imagine barricade lurve. I, of course, am innocent of that crime. I prefer barricade orgies. 50%? No, no, the percentage is much higher than that. Especially among the fangirls who've read the book, because at that point you don't need much imagination at all to make Joly flamingly gay. Or Prouvaire. He's so stereotypically gay it's not even funny.
Orestes Fasting	Kragey wrote: Orestes Fasting wrote: Kragey wrote: Mr_X wrote: Aw man...I was Joly... Erm, so what? A good 50% of the Les Mis fangirls imagine barricade lurve. I, of course, am innocent of that crime. I prefer barricade orgies. 50%? No, no, the percentage is much higher than that. Especially among the fangirls who've read the book, because at that point you don't need much imagination at all to make Joly flamingly gay. Or Prouvaire. He's so stereotypically gay it's not even funny. Or Grantaire, or Bossuet. (Or Enjolras, who's so deep in the closet he can see Narnia.) Les Amis are the Ambiguously Gay Duo times five.
Kragey	Orestes Fasting wrote: Kragey wrote: Orestes Fasting wrote: Kragey wrote: Mr_X wrote: Aw man...I was Joly... Erm, so what? A good 50% of the Les Mis fangirls imagine barricade lurve. I, of course, am innocent of that crime. I prefer barricade orgies. 50%? No, no, the percentage is much higher than that. Especially among the fangirls who've read the book, because at that point you don't need much imagination at all to make Joly flamingly gay. Or Prouvaire. He's so stereotypically gay it's not even funny. Or Grantaire, or Bossuet. (Or Enjolras, who's so deep in the closet he can see Narnia.) Les Amis are the Ambiguously Gay Duo times five. I really don't like Narnia, but that line cracked me up. And, um AGD kinda ROCKS. Oh, man. We seriously need to have gay barricade boy babies together.
DarthRevan00m9	You should have Michael Jackson randomly chasing Gavroche around the stage. Lol.
Ulla Dance Again!	I once tried parodying Les Mis... like combining it with Pirates of the Caribbean... it was pretty good... I think I had the character of Norrington be Javert, Jack Sparrow was Valjean, Elizabeth was Cosette, Anna Maria (the girl pirate on Jack's ship) was Eponine, etc... I don't know where all the songs I had written for it went off to.. but they were pretty good.
The Very Angry Woman	Kragey wrote: Megan the Phantom Girlie wrote: He must also be of unspecified orientation and make obtuse comments about Grantaire's "package". I've yet to see a production of Les Mis were at least one of the revolutionaries didn't come off as a flaming homosexual. It's usually Joly, though. Well, Jay Cranford WAS in the tour for an awfully long time...
Kragey	The Very Angry Woman wrote: Kragey wrote: Megan the Phantom Girlie wrote: He must also be of unspecified orientation and make obtuse comments about Grantaire's "package". I've yet to see a production of Les Mis were at least one of the revolutionaries didn't come off as a flaming homosexual. It's usually Joly, though. Well, Jay Cranford WAS in the tour for an awfully long time... This is true...but I have to admit, I liked him.

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