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| Vanessa20 |
Another Eppybopper one. (How many of these are there? I hope I didn't cite this one already.)
I remember once reading a comment, I think on Youtube, where someone said something like "Eponine is so selfless! Even though she must feel very betrayed by Marius, she helps him find Cosette." Now why would she feel betrayed? He's never loved her, never been involved with her, and never would have been even if not for Cosette. Unless she's just so heartbroken that she gets irrational (and I'll admit, she's not the most rational person, heartbroken or not), I don't see any reason for her to feel betrayed. |
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| Starlene |
I was with my two friends talking about how we watched the TAC dvd with another of them - her first time seeing Les Mis, actually.
Me (to the one who wasn't there watching the dvd): "And then she kept talking about how much she disliked Enjolras' hair." My friend: "Who was Enjolras?" Me: "We watched it three days ago, I pointed Enjolras out ten times and now you can't remember?" My friend: "No, no, I'll remember! Just wait a sec... The one with the beard, huh?" Me: "That was Valjean!" My friend: "Not him! I mean that awesome bad guy with the beard. He was Enjolras, right?" Me: "That's Javert. He hasn't got a beard, he's got sideburns. It seems you really can't remember..." My friend: "I can! Wait a minute, I'll figure this out... Now I know! Enjolras was the mother of that little girl! Isn't that right?" I guess it can be a bit hard to remember all those silly French names...  At least I got a good laugh.
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| Elbow |
On Saturday evening, I could hear the man behind me describing the plot in great detail to the woman he was with. "Well, I'll give you a quick run down of what happens so you don't get lost, basically, there is a very poor lady whose name is Cosette, she works in a factory. She gets fired by the mayor of the town and soon realises that she doesn't have enough money to support her son, Gavroche." He then went on to tell her how Gavoche fought in the revolution (  ) and fell in love with a girl. I can only assume he was then referring to Marius falling in love with Cosette? Anyway, it was the most bizarre description of Les Miserables I had ever heard and I was sat there wondering just how he'd sat through Les Miserables at least once before and come out thinking that that was the story. Amazing. Full marks for creativity though.
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| akandael |
"Les Miserables: it's about this guy who steals a loaf of bread."
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| Inspector Javert |
This made me laugh out loud 
And not sure if this really belongs here, but I found this fml funny, http://www.fmylife.com/work/5892629 Comment #48
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| beyondthebarricade |
My mum, who thinks she knows quite a lot: "Rosalind James as Eponine is so ugly! No wonder Marius wouldn't like her! I mean, Nancy Sullivan is prettier!"
Um, Eponine isn't SUPPOSED to be pretty. |
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| Eppie-Sue |
So, on Thursday I had the lovely honour to sit behind someone who I have seen at the Queen's quite a few times in the past year and who only comes because of certain actors. And not only did she not know what "Marius's friend, the blond one" was called (not to mention showing her ignorance by referring to Grantaire as "the drunk"), but she also didn't remember that the lead was Valjean. And then the best part.
"You know they get a new actor for later when he is older." Friend who seemed to know Les Mis a bit, too: "Um, no." Her: "Oh yes!" (gets very proud that she knows) "You know how there are these convicts at the beginning." Friend: "Uhuh." Her: "That's a different person. The actor comes on stage later when he is older." Friend: "..." Her: *proud nod* "REALLY." She was very convinced. I facepalmed. She also started applause for Empty Chairs before the song was actually over, so I kicked her chair a bit. |
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| riverdawn |
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| l'ivrogne transfigur� |
Riight. "My name is Jean Valjean"..."Who am I? I'm Jean Valjean!" I can imagine she may be watching her favourite actors in that first bit, but really for the whole runaway cart/Who Am I? bit. And her favourite actors even sing his name... |
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| Quique |
Nothing is worse than overhearing someone carry on and on about Les Mis as if they're experts, but are actually so incredibly off, you almost turn around several times to tell them that they are VERY WRONG.
The worst was a woman in the row behind my sis and I at the final L.A. performance of the 3rd NT. Apparently we were going to watch the OBC and Randal Keith created the role in London and Broadway. Then she went on about how that tour was "direct from Broadway," as in it up and left its sit-down Broadway engagement house to tour the country. Oh, and Les Mis has had many, many tours. The last several she saw were identical to the previous one and the last one also starred Randal as Valjean. Um, that's cause IT WAS THE SAME TOUR. Durr. The way she spoke about it gave me the impression she thought national tours are just like rock/pop concerts, launching anew every couple of years to tour for a few months then disband until next time someone decides to bring the show out again. 
It's one thing if she were some babbling moron but the conviction in her voice was almost too much to take considering how off she was. |
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| beyondthebarricade |
Suprisingly enough, I think I may have a fairly good idea of who you're talking about. If I'm right, she's quite an ardent fan of Antony? |
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| Eppie-Sue |
There is a reason why I didn't write more that this. It was just to indicate that people who come often can still be ignorant to these simple things, especially if they only go because of a certain performer. That's all. She's an example. | ||||
| beyondthebarricade |
I know, this isn't meant to be a personal attack or anything, but I've seen her online quite a few times. I get that you're quoting her conversation with her friend purely to show an example of some ignorant people who don't know as much as they think they do. | ||||
| Proud Dork |
I haven't been to MDN in forever, but this was worth coming back to share:
"Oh, that one guy was so hot, what was his name...Gavroche!" |
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| hyperactress23 |
My sister: "Les Mis? Isn't that the show you listen to where all the drunk guys attack the prostitutes and then the youngest prostitute whines because the only decent guy loves the rich girl instead of her so she starts stalking him? Oh and then at the end the rich girls crook father dies and the now-dead stalker chick comes and sings to him?" | ||||
| Pan |
�But you will live, �Ponine - dear God above! If I could stop your wounds with words of love��
� about freaking TIME, Marius�and then you kiss Eponine as she dies�and go back to pansy Cosette. I hate her and her perfect soprano voice and I hate you because you are stupid and Eponine is sexier and has more songs than BOTH OF YOU POO-PANTSES put together*. AHAHAHAHA *This may not be true, because I just remembered �Empty Chairs At Empty Tables� is sung by Marius. ---- you, Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy who is freaking poor and didn�t really care about the revolution because a) he was just in it for his friends and keeps referring to the revolutionaries as �they� not �we��also, WTF, if I had been Marius I would�ve seen my sole-survivorship-of-the-barricades as a SIGN to carry on the revolution, NOT RUN OFF WITH LOATHSOME COSETTE, YOU BASTARD, YOU DON�T DESERVE TO LIVE Browsing the internet, I typed Les Mis into tumblr and came across this. I'd like to think he was joking but...oh dear. They did also say 'Oh, Javert. How in hell you manage to be awesome and sexy-voiced while betraying The Protagonists (including my other love, Enjolras) is a mystery to me.' which redeemed them slightly from the horrible eppiebopping and mariushate. Although how in hell he is betraying them I have no idea, but at least they recognise the sexy. |
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| Eppie-Sue |
That is mildly disturbing. Especially because, apparently, this person knows The Brick. Eponine "is sexier", my dear Lord, what is the world coming to...?! Can't help but laugh at people who go into full rant mode and want to list why they hate a character (a fictional character. Repeat after me kids: They hate a fictional character.) and start off well with "a)" and then never find a "b)" to follow. Lovely, thanks for sharing. |
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| Proud Dork |
Well, this person will be glad to know that he kinda, y'know...doesn't? Not being existent and all...? How about this gem of a conversation, started by someone who does know what they're talking about: "Person A: Eponine's a crazy, manipulative stalker. I don't like how the musical glosses over that. Person B: Sounds like me, kind of =/ " Ahaha. No. I sincerely doubt that you waltz into handsome strangers' rooms to rant to them about your hunger-induced hallucinations, and then proceed follow them around an entire city, randomly popping up every now and then, acting bizarre altogether. If you did, you'd probably be arrested by now. |
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| Eppie-Sue |
Or not. Sounds like some "fans" I've seen at the stage door, actually. They didn't waltz into anyone's room, though. Yet. |
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| Pan |
more from the world of tumblr
for those of you gLee fans who may be wondering about the connection of the song Rachel's mom sings to her, it's a song from Les Miserables (the play Mr. Schu and NPH audition for). in the play, a prostitute has a baby and has to give it up for adoption (there's more to the story, but it's not very relevant to gLee) and that is most likely why the song says it all, because to a musical buff, they would know that story and to Rachel and her mother, it is a very relevant song and very touching. The musical is quite clear she turns to prostitution after Cosette, Fantine is not a whore from the beginning. How do people come to these conclusions, it boggles my mind.
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| Eppie-Sue |
"the best version EVER"
(yes, I googled "I dreamed a dream" and "Glee" just to piss myself off) |
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| Pan |
Eugh.
+ the comments..oh dear. 'Is it wrong for me to say that I like this version better than Susan Boyle? ' 'Not a patch on Susan Boyle. ' Why did the woman have to sing IDAD, of all the millions of songs in the world. ...'This was originally an ABBA song right?' >.> |
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| xDaisyPetalx |
My friends mum rang me up when I offered to take three friends to see it:
'It's just, we're a bit worried as a French Opera is a bit heavy for girls your age, especially with all the murder'
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| High-baritonne |
Just wondering, why do you get pissed off by such a triviality like a beautiful rendition of a wonderful song? They fit the song wonderfully into the context of the episode, and it was a really nice take on the song. |
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| l'ivrogne transfigur� |
I think it's fairly obvious why she's pissed off - because she doesn't think it's a beautiful rendition of a wonderful song. Personally, I agree with that, but I also know a lot of people who do like it, so I'm not going to judge. But it seems a bit of a pointless question, really. |
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| Quique |
I'll say something similar to what I said when someone recently posted a very R&B-flavored rendition by Shanice: It was very well sung and it's interesting how they made it into a duo/duet/whatever. I just wish they hadn't based it off Susan Boyle's truncated version because it loses a lot of its beauty with the way they arranged it and those drums sound ridiculous in a song that's essentially a lament. But, hey, it was featured out of context in some T.V. show. I'd jump into the pit myself and set those drums on fire if they were officially added to the show's orch, lol. | ||||
| MSam |
I don't think it's a terrible rendition of the piece in terms of the vocals, but I don't appreciate how it's been souped up with the drums and the orchestral instrumentation sounds very synthesised. But hey, they're not trying to appeal to fans of Les Mis, they're trying to appeal to fans of Glee.
I didn't know they covered 'On My Own' too until about last week. Ugh.
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| Eppie-Sue |
Oh of course they are. And I'm sure it worked well in the show and all that, and I'm not criticising them for the rendition (although I think it sounds cheesy and poppy and like a second-rate ballad you'd hear from C�line Dion now). I pointed out a comment that said "the best version EVER". So the stupid thing is not the song. It's the comments. It is, obviously, a very "Glee fan!!!" thing to say and will come up at any cover version of any song out there that is being commented on by fans of whoever is doing the cover version. But I still think it's a stupid comment to say it's the best version ever, and I'm sure that's a logical reaction. | ||||
| Orestes Fasting |
Overheard in the Th��tre du Ch�telet in Paris:
"And I've heard the English call it Les Miz." "Why on earth would they want to do that?" "I don't know, they have this mania for shortening names. Next thing you know they'll be calling Jean Valjean Ja-Ja." (Okay, not outright stupid like most of the unfortunate utterances that end up on this thread, but definitely silly. )
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| lovesinging |
I think I love this. Definitely passing it on to my cast. |
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| hazellwood |
Oh my god, that is awesome. 
A friend: "Wait... so David Thaxton is Valjean? Didn't you say he was Marius?" Not totally ridiculous, but she came into the conversation I was having with a friend at the absolute wrong moment. No, David Thaxton is not Valjean, and no, he's not Marius. He's Enjolras, and there is a big difference. (Also, hi world. I'm new. )
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| Orestes Fasting |
The best thing about that conversation is that it was in French, and hearing French people pronounce "Les Miz" is almost (but not quite) as funny as hearing English people pronounce "Les Mis�rables." | ||||
| kemathenga |
They call him John Welljohn, don't they? And I guess the average french speaker takes as much time to say "les miserables" as the average english one to say "les mis". |
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| LovelyFantine |
Love this! Partially true I suppose
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| Bway2be |
This has probably been said before, but one of the annoying things I've heard is when people are like "Wait, I Dreamed a Dream? You mean that song Susan Boyle sang? It's from a musical?"
Though with the Glee cover now, I bet some people are convinced it's a duet....
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| Moci |
I heard a girl who was looking at the Glee soundtrack in HMV the other day telling their friend that Idina Menzel was Fantine in the original cast of 'Les Mis'. When she was in her early teens and bearing a startling resemblance to Patti LuPone I'm presuming. |
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| mezzo_soprano |
This was just my sister and I being dumb, but I think this imagined barricade convo deserves posting.
"Enjolras I have to go to the bathroom" "You should have went before we started this revolution" "But I didn't have to go before we were on the barricade" Its funnier if you read it in a really whiny voice, at ten at night, walking through the parking lot, after only speaking in les mis quotes at the supermarket. (We were bored.) |
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| kemathenga |
Music teacher introduces class to Les Mis: "there's this student called In-yoll-rass."
And that at a school specializing in languages, I do Latin, English and French there for foreign languages. |
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| Roseinmisery |
This just made my day...
I was watching the TAC when my Mum comes in and starts watching too. Me: That's Lea Salonga, she plays Eponine. Don't you just love her costume? Mum: Is she the one from Glee? Me: No, that's Lea Michele. Mum: Oh. (After a pause) so why is she wearing a beard? |
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| Vanessa20 |
 
What was she thinking? Did she mistake the shadow on Lea's face from her mic for a beard? Or did she see Colm and think he was Lea? WTF? |
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| Roseinmisery |
It was the shadows on Lea's face in OMO. My Mum makes me laugh. | ||||
| Bway2be |
I have another one!
I was talking about Les Mis with my mom and a friend and my dad comes in and says, "What? Mes Liz?" (he's seen the show, btw. He just misheard...badly!) |
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| lovesinging |
I just had to say this somewhere that people would understand it:
People in my Les Mis cast keep going on about how exciting it is to reenacting the French Revolution. Reallyyyy? |
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| PureDiamondLight |
ooooooooooooooohhh dear.
btw, I just got an application form for WestEndToYou's 3-day Les Mis course this august. Is anyone here planning to go? Does anyone know anymore about it? I think it sounds fabulous, but the info given is slightly vague, and I was wondering if any of the spectacularly well-informed people here knew any more. Thanks! 
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| Javvyshomegirl73 |
- My sister and I were watching the TAC and the bishop comes on and she says "What with the hair!?"
- I was showing my best friend Philip Quast and she said "Wow..he's gay"... We don't talk much anymore. - My best friend thought Fantine was Javert's girlfriend I laughed hard. - When my brother and I are at the mall we were sitting on the second floor stairs and he said "Wanna play 24601?" I was like WHAT? and he had to exsplain to me it's like tag, but I'm Javert and he is Jean Valjean, and we chase eatchother throughout the mall yelling at each other...LOL...The faces we got were priceless! |
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| kemathenga |
That's a brilliant idea. We could do that in our choir hall at boring rehearsals, my daughter an I. We'd sing in duet (she knowing the TAC by heart, anyway) and grab some chairs. It'd be awesome!! Thanks for the tip.
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| Roseinmisery |
I love the idea of 24601! I bet I could play it with my sister. The only problem is she is ALWAYS Javert. I can't really blame her as she has a very low alto voice and does sing the part surprisingly well, but still... | ||||
| hazellwood |
Poster 1: It's called Les Miserables, and it's about this guy named Valjean who steals candlesticks, I think from a priest. But then he's blessed or something, so he doesn't steal anymore? And then he rescues this girl named Cossette and they go live together in Paris.
Poster 2: Does Cossette have a love interest? Poster 1: Yeah, I think his name is Marquis. I don't really know anything about it. I swear on all that is sacred I am not making this up. I saw it on a discussion forum somewhere. I tried searching for it, but I haven't found it again. Probably not word for word, but I know that "Marius" was spelled 'Marquis' and that 'Cosette' was spelled "Cossette". |
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| Javvyshomegirl73 |
LOL! No problem.
Oh yes and then one time my mom said "So Javert is gay?" and I was like "NO!" and ever since then she mocks him and says "Stop it, Jean Valjean not allowed! But I love the purse!" |
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| Orestes Fasting |
Er, gay is not an insult... | ||||
| Javvyshomegirl73 |
I know...LOL Like the topic "The silliest thing" LOL
Oh and then my favorite - Wait...so Javert stole the loaf of bread? Courtasy of my friend LOL! |
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| l'ivrogne transfigur� |
On Wednesday evening I got student ticket in the D/C, and so I was sitting in the middle of lots of other people which I haven't done for ages, and I'd forgotten what amusing things people come out with.
The two women I was sitting next to were discussing the show - I think one had seen it before, or at least knew the music, and the other didn't seem to know anything. She asked who the guy in the corner who kept drinking was. "You know, the one who says 'Let me breathe brandy, and I'll blow them away!' " The other replied that it must be one of the gang. "The swings?" "Yeah." So they tried to work out who was playing the role, decided it was between Thomas and Greg, noticed that Thomas wasn't a swing, so they settled on Greg... as Grantaire, God help me. |
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| Javvyshomegirl73 |
Omigosh hhahahaahhaahahhahahahhahhahhahaha!!!! My sister has a hard time saying Enjolras so she says "EN-SHUL-RA" I'm like....no Its "EnJA like JAHvert Olra" Hahhahahaha!! |
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| PureDiamondLight |
ohhh dear. It even rhymes, for goodness sake - it's not that hard to remember!!
and did she think "Swing" was the name of the ABC amis? That really would be painful.
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| Proud Dork |
One of my friends recently started watching Shoujo Cosette (I was unable to get her to read the book or see/listen to the musical for her first version, but I digress.)
Anyway, she started giggling the moment Montparnasse showed up on screen, and proceeded to say, "He's totally Oscar Wilde! ...only evil. And heterosexual." |
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| Roseinmisery |
That's fantastic! I've just started watching Shoujo cosette and I can't wait 'til Patron-Minette shows up. It sounds like they portray him pretty well. It annoys me when he's just "the guy with a knife". I've got one from yesterday when my sister and I managed to acquire kazoos from the comedy show we went to. We played the whole of Fantine's death and the confrontation the kazoo and it sounded hilarious. Red and Black sounds even better! I'm hoping I can rally enough people together to do ODM. |
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| Javvyshomegirl73 |
Epic win!! Hhahahaha!!! I was at a library teen read a thon last night and I brought my "Brick" and a sweet Librarian stoped in front of me dumbfounded and said "Unabridged...Hugo?" and I chuckled and said "Yep..I am like Obbsessed with it" she sat next to me and we talked about it for 20 minutes! It was so awesome, she we was telling me who was real in the book and we talked about that, it was awesome! |
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| Canadian Drama Geek |
My friend, after watching the show, decided to take a crack at reading the book. I thought she was making admirable progress, until she stopped me in the hallway of our school demanding to know why they cut Patria out of the musical, because she was such a wonderful love interest for Enjolras.
... I honestly didn't know what to say. |
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| Madame Enjolras |
Shoujo Cosette's Montparnasse is actually really good. *nods* Unfortunately I haven't found any English version of what he says...
Oh wow. That's actually kinda funny.
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| Javvyshomegirl73 |
Yeah...WHAT WAS WITH PATRIA!! hhahahahahhahahaahaha!!! |
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| PureDiamondLight |
*speechless* several minutes later... *bursts out laughing* that's hilarious. Unbelieveable, but hilarious. |
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| Roseinmisery |
I agree. Poor old Patria, she was Enjy's mistress after all. |
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| mxnsunflower8 |
My mom once thought that Philip Quast was Russell Crowe and that Michael Ball was David Hasselhoff
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| Paula74 |
I met a woman today at the post office who, after commenting on my Les Miz key-chain, absolutely insisted she saw the original Broadway cast...er...with Michael Crawford as Jean Valjean.
I couldn't convince her otherwise. |
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| hazellwood |
Oh. Oh, wow.
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| Vanessa20 |
Just thought I'd add one after reading today's New York Times article about Nick Jonas. It's nothing new, but just the fact that it was in the New York Times made me want to mention it.
After describing how some girl at the stage door on Saturday screamed "I want to die in your arms!" when Nick came out, the article explains:
Hopefully, by "finally answers the affections," the writer just meant "finally shows her some tenderness so that she dies happy," not "finally returns her love too late," a la the misconception of Lesmisloony's 11-year-old self and those people on Youtube. |
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| Paula74 |
Well...such a thought DID cross my mind VERY briefly the first time I saw the original US tour. However, I was about fourteen, it was a VERY fleeting thought, and I sure as hell didn't say it...let alone scream it...to anyone at the stage door!
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| Dona Quixote |
This was literally printed in the local newspaper of my community. They were announcing the local auditions for the School Edition. I was fit to be tied after reading this:
That is COMPLETELY ridiculous. I don't mind a few mixups, but the fact that they published this absolutely astonished me. |
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| Gargamel |
That's quite funny actually...
Almost none of the things written here are true...
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| MajorTordoArthur |
Wow. This deserves an applause
How can anyone possibly print that? ._. |
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| Javvyshomegirl73 |
Oh my god...How can anyone mess up THAT BAD! hahahhahaha!! Jeez, AT LEAST READ the Premise before you go and make a thing outta it! Hahahaha...The only thing I can see right is Javert chaseing Valjean... But even then I am SURE they somehow messed that one up.. |
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| Satirist |
Hello, all!
I was talking to this guy about how I was going to go see In the Heights and he asks me, "What about that French band you're always talking about?" "What French band?" "You know, the miserables ones." And then Satirist's brain exploded and she proceeded to go into a very long rant/explanation that Les Mis�rables was not a rock band. Sigh. |