ILoveToSing2010
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My School Production of Les Mis photosThis is Canandaigua Academys production of Les Miserables. It opens tomorrow, and there is only a few pics from dress week which we are still in the process of. Last practice is tonight. Come see the show if you are in the Rochester New York Area!!! Ask questions for more details. note there is 2 casts so each part is played by two diffrent people.
Jean Valjean in Bring Him Home
Mademe T yelling at poor little cosette
End of One day More
Little Cosette Sing Castle on a Cloud
End of the Wedding
Empty Chairs at empty tables
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WickedToo
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Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. 
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Vanessa20
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Great pictures.
But (rant time)... why do so many School Edition productions have Eponine wear her effing overcoat in Act I?!
Do the production slides that MTI provides not show her without it or something? It makes her look less poor and waif-like than when she has "nothing but a blouse and a skirt cover[ing] her shivering, chilled nudity," but so many productions in the photos and Youtube clips I've seen have her wear it in both acts.
You don't suppose at this late date, you could persuade your two Eponines to only wear it in Act II, do you?  Once again, though, great pictures.
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ILoveToSing2010
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^ I did not know that about Eponine, and it would be too late. Show is tomorrow 
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Quique
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Nice costumes and lighting.
Eponine specifically wears the trenchcoat in act two in an effort to disguise herself as a boy so she could be near Marius at the barricade, and not be shooed away like Marius eventually does anyway.
It's true that the original coat design is sort of feminine looking. It almost wears like a dress. It doesn't help that many Eponines keep their long hair visible. Sutton Foster is the only actress I've seen in the role who bothered to tuck her hair under her cap during act two which helped make her appear a lot more boyish than most. It also helped make the overall stage picture of OMO more poignant as not only is she dwarfed by the set and her oversized men's coat, but her attempt at passing for a boy shows it was all premeditated carefully and takes what could easily be confused as some crush to something that warrants a dramatic moment such as OMO.
It's obvious to me that the director didn't bother to dig too deep and merely tried to copy what's seen in photos and video when I see a production with a trench coat-wearing act one Eponine! 
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Vanessa20
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| Quique wrote: | | It doesn't help that many Eponines keep their long hair visible. Sutton Foster is the only actress I've seen in the role who bothered to tuck her hair under her cap during act two which helped make her appear a lot more boyish than most. |
OT: Are you saying that you've seen Eponines who didn't tuck up their hair at all in Act II?  Granted, I don't suppose long hair on guys was terribly uncommon in the 1830s, but still. Every time I've seen the show (starting in 2001), she's tucked up her hair at the barricade and when delivering the letter, and only let it down for OMO (I suppose because we're hearing her inner self). Hasn't it always been that way?
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ILoveToSing2010
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It's obvious to me that the director didn't bother to dig too deep and merely tried to copy what's seen in photos and video when I see a production with a trench coat-wearing act one Eponine! [/color][/quote]
I really don't think it is a big deal, its not going to change the story. And she does tuck in her hair in Act 2, so we do show the diffrence.
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ILoveToSing2010
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| Quote: | | It's obvious to me that the director didn't bother to dig too deep and merely tried to copy what's seen in photos and video when I see a production with a trench coat-wearing act one Eponine! [/color] |
I really don't think it is a big deal, its not going to change the story. And she does tuck in her hair in Act 2, so we do show the diffrence.
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Quique
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Eh, I wouldn't say it's a big deal either. But it is a detail that affects the general perception of the character and it speaks volumes as to the ignorance of the designer/director.
Simply put...Eponine is not supposed to wear a trench coat in act one. There is no reason why she'd wear one. What, is she cold? Is she a cross dresser, emo, a pervert, a flasher? XD
It's easier to just keep the coat off for act one. What's the big deal in that?
Keeping it on for act one not only makes no sense, but you throw out the subtle impact that it could have when she is seen wearing it in act 2. I guess you will have to cut the lyric "hey little boy what's this I see? God! Eponine the things you do." cause Marius is responding directly to her barricade boy get-up. He wouldn't pay attention to it if it were her everyday form of dress.
Might as well have Fantine wear her whore clothes during IDAD, I guess. I mean, it really isn't a big deal after all. 
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~Masquerade Dancer~
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Great pictures! Best of luck for the show
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ILoveToSing2010
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Here are a some more from dress week and from the actual show.
Saturday Cast
Lovely Ladies
More Lovely Ladies
And Again
Fantine and Bamatbois
Cart Crash
Javert and Vajean in the confrontation
Mademe T and Little Cosette
Master of the House
Thenaridiers in The bargin
Javert in Stars
Gavroche
Eponine
Eponine and Mauris
ABC Cafe
Students
Combeferre
Cosette
Mauris and Cosette
Eponine, Mauris, and cosette
End of One day more
More to come!
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riverdawn
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I'm getting a lot of these as "broken" (no picture), but the ones that are up there are very nice!
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ILoveToSing2010
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Little People
She dies
Barricade
Drink with me
Bring Him home
Army officer
javert checking dead bodies
Turning Women
Empty Chairs at empty tables
Everyday
Wedding
Mademe T Stealing silver
All of the adults who helped make this show great
Vajean
Bishop
At the end of the day
Fight
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