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| mezzo_soprano |
There is a VROOOOOOM on a VROOM. Vroom being the best sound I could think of for a dust buster. |
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| lesmisloony |
Pretty accurate, I'd say. |
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| Catherine |
YKYOWTLM when...
Your Grandma and Grandad come round, and she says she doesn't want to see Les Mis because theres no good songs in it. You make her watch Master of the House and One Day More on the TAC. She is now converted. When you find out that same Grandad has the first volume of The Brick. You demand to borrow it. |
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| Tenalto |
YKYOWTLM when...
You're ridiculously pleased with your high school colors (red and black). Edit: Just remembered this. When you have a dream about Montparnasse following you around -- and you're not even particularly attached to his character. |
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| lesmisloony |
YKYOWLMW...
You see the words "video" and "hugs" in a sentence and think it says something about Victor Hugo.  I need help.
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| mezzo_soprano |
Yes you do!!!!!
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| Fantine |
YKYOWLSW:
You participate in a heartrate/reaction time experiment at your University. You get primed with some words and you read 'Onvoorbereid' and you immediately think about the Dutch One Day More where Eponine sings "Ik was op alles voorbereid" (onvoorbereid is the negative of voorbereid). And then after the experiment they give you a sheet of paper on which you have to write things that you thought about during the experiment and you seriously write down: "I was thinking about a song in the musical Les Mis�rables and how I don't like the actress that is going to be Eponine in the upcoming Dutch production." I'm so sad. |
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| Electricity24601 |
Well they did ask you for what you though about- they asked for it!
YKYOWLMW: You seriously consider changing your voicmail to "Hello, you have reached the friends of the ABC cafe. We're too busy building a barricade and waving a red flag to take your call right now. Please leave a message after the beep" You write about Javert and Valjean to illustrate the definition of antagonist on your Drama Arts vocab quiz. You start giggling uncontrollably when you see "subtext" on your next list of vocab. Thanks guys. Thanks a lot. |
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| Tenalto |
You're welcome. 
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| lesmisloony |
XD I was going to change mine to "This is Erin [Montparnasse]... I'm listening." as a Frasier shoutout, but this I like better! YKYOWLMW... ...you are supposed to have someone fill out a critique of a speech you're giving in English, and you forget to have it done. So you fill it out yourself and fill in "Mike Evariste" as your critiquer. *shrugs* I figure he's obscure enough that the English teacher wouldn't know any better. ...you have to write a dialogue between a professor and an unlucky student for German and, of course, it's Blondeau and Bossuet. And no, you don't care how French-y their names are, Herr Professor! |
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| mezzo_soprano |
Hmmm. . . Mine at the moment says "SPEAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!" (RENT fans?) But this is a good Idea!! |
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| lesmisloony |
MEZZOMEZZOMEZZO OMIGOD THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT MINE IS!
*calms* OHMAN. When I saw that post I thought for I second I'd left it. I need to change it because no one knows what it is and I may get a call from a potential internship this summer... a lot of people think it's just saying "BEEEP!! *giggle*" I haven't yet changed it because my friend and I recorded it at two in the morning after we first saw the Rent movie back in high school, so it has sentimental value and whatnot. |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
YKYOWLMW you're sitting behind the violas in an orchestra rehearsal, and every time you see a part marked "Vla." (common shorthand for "viola") you think of Vlajean ... you know, the contraction of "voila Jean!" from whence "Valjean" came ... | ||||||
| Lara |
YKYOWLMW... your French teacher tells you to talk to a friend in your Oral Presentation and you say, "Voici mon ami, Marius!", when you talk about your house you live on Rue Plumet, and you order your coffee from the ABC Cafe Musain.
EDIT: Cafe Musain, sorry. |
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| bigR |
i don't want to be bitchy but the ABC caf� does not exist... | ||||||
| mastachen |
^I doubt she has a house on Rue Plumet also.
But I think you missed the point of her post... |
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| lesmisloony |
I'm guessing bigR's point was that Les Amis met in the Musain and the Corinth, not the ABC Cafe. But musicals fans don't know this, so. Give the girl a chance to read the Brick. 
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| bigR |
Exactly. I was just being extra picky... |
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| Fantine |
YKYOWLMW... You see the "short" version of the TV series with John Malkovich and Gerard Depardieu for only SEVEN! EURO'S and you can't refuse to take it home with you, even though you already have the French six hour version on tape.
(I bought it about half an hour ago, lol). |
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| Quique |
...when you miss Orestes Fasting. =(
Where is that gal? |
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| Lara |
... I've read the book. I was pretty sure I didn't remember what it was really called, but my sister is holding the book hostage in her room so I just wrote ABC Cafe. | ||||||
| lesmisloony |
Hehe, excellent.
Orestes is overseas, according to her lj... that's really stalk-y, isn't it? I feel stalk-y. |
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| Orestes Fasting |
In Switzerland. More specifically, in a hotel with exorbitant per-minute fees for internet access. But hey, I got a collection of essays on Romantic-era Paris for only 2 francs! (Edit: Oh, my post count is getting into fun territory. YKYOWLMW your brain automatically prefixes "1823" with "Montreuil-sur-Mer.") |
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| Fantine |
We can't see your post count 
I did mention before that once my computer clock hits 18:32 I immediately think of... Well, 1832 of course. |
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| Orestes Fasting |
I know, which is why I posted a screenshot when I hit 1789. XD Just mentioning it.
(My computer clock set to 12-hour time, so I don't get to see 18:32.) |
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| Quique |
Ahh. Switzerland? That's cool! No wonder you've been absent for awhile. Hope you're having tons of fun.
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| Fantine |
That's too bad, I always seem to look at my clock exactly when it is 18:32. How creepy is that? |
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| lesmisloony |
YKYOWLMW...
...you're watching "Being John Malkovich" because Monotone Malkovich was in the 2000 miniseries, and Lester says "The time is now," and, sing it with me guys... The day is heeeeeere! |
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| EponineMNFF |
YKYOWLMW when you cast everybody around you in the show, based on type casting. I've had inner monologue wars about which woman on the plane would make a better Mme T. I'm such a creep. Hahaha. | ||||||
| lesmisloony |
Hehe, I do that too. I've cast most of my coworkers... and I keep trying to find a position for my French professor. I think if the barricade boys had reached their thirties he would have been able to be one... but which?
This is a serious debate that goes on in my head every French class, by the way. |
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| Timmy_Wishes he was Quast |
THANK GOD!! I thought it was only me. But do you try and overhear them speak or sing just so you can sit there with a satisfied..."Yep...they'd rock!" face!? |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
*raises hand* Me too! YKYOWLMW: This completely random dream you're having about the New York subway system somehow deposits you backstage at a LMSE. You catch them right as they're beginning the Finale. Valjean is played by this tiny 13-year-old, but he opens his mouth and he has this beautiful heartbreaking tenor voice... you make it all the way to "and show them graaa-aaaa-aaaaace!" before you wake up. There was a slightly smaller redheaded girl standing behind him ... that must have been Fantine! I wish I had heard her sing before I woke up. Hopefully I'm predicting what my children will turn out like through my dreams? Okay, this post is really bizarre. |
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| Quique |
^ OK.
You're officially insane, lol.
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
*bows* Thankyou,thaaaankyouvairmuch. |
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| lesmisloony |
XD
YKYOWLMWhen... you're flipping channels late at night, and you see this flicker of Virginie Ledoyen, so you back up to that channel and start bouncing around saying "C'est Cosette! Cosette! Cosette!" And proceed to watch the entire movie, no matter how lame it is. However, your visions of Cosette crack a little when, four minutes after you start watching the film, Cosette gets it on with Leonardo DiCaprio... 
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| Orestes Fasting |
Oh thanks, I really needed the thought of Leonardo DiCaprio as Marius.
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
OH NO. That's bad. That's really really bad. But not as bad as ... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1773013349632521966&q=Les+Miserables&hl=en OMG. It's hilarious. And sooo bad. And an hour long, but you get the full effect without dying if you just skim trhough it. |
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| EponineMNFF |
I got all the way up to A Little Fall of Rain when I first saw that video about a year and a half ago. It's honestly the worst thing that's ever happened to Les Mis. But Castle on a Cloud is hilarious in how creepy it is. Five THOUSAND little girls singing. So scary. 
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| Sweeney Hyde |
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| Orestes Fasting |
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| Catherine |
*hangs up balloons* Can I come? | ||||||
| Orestes Fasting |
Everyone's invited, darling. | ||||||
| EponineMNFF |
YKYOWLMW
You're reading the ingredients of a bag of chips and see "potato" and "monosaturated" next to each other, and think that it says Montparnasse. And then you're horrified at the thought of Parnasse potato chips. Orestes - how come you can see your post count, but nobody else can? O.o |
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| Orestes Fasting |
Somewhere in your profile settings there's an option to hide your personal information, including your join date and post count, to everyone but you. |
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| EponineMNFF |
Aaaahhhhhhhh. Wewt! *blows up red and black balloons* |
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| lesmisloony |
I lol'ed. In a very obnoxious, unladylike burst of cackles. |
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| lesmisloony |
WAIT A MINUTE.
WHAT THE F!!! IS THAT?!?!?!?!?!???? WHAT WHAT WHAT THIS IS THE WORST THING I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE DEAR GOD MAKE IT STOP. It says Burlington... I hope to goodness it's Burlington, Vermont... or else my beloved NC might become an object of my hatred... Did one of the constables call Valjean "fool"? ETA: My favourite part so far is when Valjean says "She needs a doctor, not a hospital!" ...Huh? This is... not good. I mean... wow. I can't... Let me put it this way: OH. MY. GOD. I WANT TO BURN THIS THEATRE DOWN WITH ALL THOSE CHILDREN IN IT. (Another ETA:) Interpretive dance to Master of the House and Stars?!? Valjean paid the Thenardiers.. fifty hundred? Three Gavrii?? "RED RED RED! BLACK BLACK BLACK!"? I'll probably ETA this again in about three seconds. |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
I know, right? I basically fell out of my chair laughing. ... When it first started playing and they were like, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS TWO! FOUR! SIX! OH! ONE!"
And then all the dancing ... And the fact that the OBC was playing in the background ... And that like 5 different actors played each part. Often at the same time. And AmericanIdolWannabe!Fantine. And the multiple little Cosettes looking for all the world like ... something creepy. |
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| EponineMNFF |
I love the speak-singing. 
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| Quique |
I've seen that vid before. Yes, the performance itself is horrendous on all levels, but what annoyed me most was the incredibly long, preachy, and stupid intro. I swear I wanted to stick a needle in my eye after watching that, lol. | ||||||
| Quique |
That basically sums up my reaction as well. |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
And random wheelchair!Valjean? | ||||||
| lesmisloony |
Marius: I. Am overcome with grief.
Another favourite part is the absolute incorrectness of the titles. "1815 Digne"? "1838 Paris"? And Javert's Suicide... and Valjean's Death... "It's a story of a-- read it well, when I at last am sleeping. It's a story of a man..." TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON. IS TO SEE. THE FACE. OF GOD. *cue squeaky prepubescent DYHTPS with plinky keyboard accompaniment* Does Cammack know this happened? |
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| EponineMNFF |
I doubt it. That is the most illegal student edition I've ever seen. | ||||||
| Quique |
It's putrid. The MOTH dance is especially grotesque. WTF is that?! And Stars! Omg, lol.
Why do the kids randomly strike cheesy poses? I'd like to know who was the director of this travesty. |
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| EponineMNFF |
S/he should probably find a way into the witness protection program now. S/he's about to have five thousand screaming Mizfits coming after him/her. | ||||||
| lesmisloony |
Hahaha, I think we should do it. And let's kill Laura Kalpakian while we're at it. It'll be a field trip!
I've seen/been sent the link to that before, but I couldn't make it through the friggin pretentious slideshow. Now that I did... I can't decide whether I enjoyed laughing my head off and screaming in indignation or whether it scarred me for life. And that! is why I collect LM movies. |
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| Catherine |
"What will make you come back?"
Well not this, thats for certain. Christ. |
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| Catherine |
I have watched some more. I am utterly disgusted.
Since when did Fantine sell her clothes? Why is there about 5 Fantines? Bambatois sure has anger issues. Did these kids even read the script? I'm too curious to stop it, I want to see One Day More. |
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| Fantine |
Do you know what scares me the most about all of this?
THAT YOU GUYS ACTUALLY WATCHED IT! (well, at least part of it). |
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| lesmisloony |
I watched the whole thing.
Except the slideshow, of course... |
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| Catherine |
Well, I wasn't actually watching the painful dances, I just saw snippets. All I heard really was the complete disregard for the script and the OBC (OLC? I'm not sure). I had had enough when it got to A Little Fall of Rain. |
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| lesmisloony |
Hahaha, I really enjoy torturing myself that way. But yeah, it was most def the OBC.
Something else I was thinking about? They didn't include the robbery or anything like that... which makes me think they only had access to the OBC...
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| bigR |
come on guys! that show is brilliant! horrific brilliant, but brilliant anyway.
what kind of mind can be behind something like that? it is scary fascinating... i am usually horrified when something that i expect to go in a certain way is messed up (like when a director takes absurd decissions in a film) but this kind of horrific absurdity I just LOVE. maybe it is because i hate school productions, so watching something like this was refreshingly hilarious
it was actually even more exciting than watching a pro show, since it kept you or 2 hours wondering in tension what on earth were they going to do with the next song... |
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| Quique |
I agree. It's frightfully fascinating! XD
I liked the 1,000,000 Cosettes singing COAC. 
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| Quique |
Same here. Only I watched it through the spaces between my fingers. *facepalm* |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
I watched enough so that I could fully appreciate how horrific it was, but not enough to induce vomiting. | ||||||
| Fantine |
I really have to get used to that abbrevation. It reminds me of a dirty word, although I am not sure which one. Maybe I'm just crazy. And uhm, up to ALFOR? Dear mother of God! I just didn't watch it all because it was loading way to slow. But otherwise... |
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| Tenalto |
"Cloaca," maybe? |
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| lesmisloony |
Cloaca... is a bad word? Huh? | ||||||
| Fantine |
Nope that's not it. I'm a bird lover so it's not really a dirty word for me, although it is kinda... gross? | ||||||
| lesmisloony |
Heh, my only association with that word is Valjean in the sewers... I s'pose Hugo must have used "cloaca" to describe things at that point...
Ahem. I think this lil anecdote goes here: Loony listening to Michael Ball sing IDAD-- Michael Ball: As they turn your dream to pai- Loony: (aloud) Shame. Michael Ball: aaa-aaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa- Loony: SHAME. Micheal Ball: aaaa-aaaaiiiiiin! Loony: SHAME, MICHAEL. THEY TURN YOUR DREAMS TO SHAME. SHAME. Michael Ball: She slept a summer by my side! She filled my days with endless wonder! She took my childhood in her stride! Loony: *snickers* Michael Ball: But she was gone when autumn came... Loony: TOLD YOU IT WAS SHAME. Hehe, and no, it's not the first time I've heard the song. I react that way every. time. Because maybe one of these days he'll listen to me and get it right? |
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| Catherine |
^ That made my day.
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| Quique |
XD Oh, Michael. What's he gonna sing next? A rock version of Castle On a Cloud? lol. | ||||||
| Fantine |
Don't give him any ideas. | ||||||
| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
Seriously don't. That would be the funniestworst thing ever. Except for the megaillegal student production. |
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| Fantine |
Soprano, for your upcoming audition for Les Mis, who are you going to audition for? Have you already picked a song? And when are those auditions? Just curious
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| lesmisloony |
Michael's Lulziest Covers:
Shake Your Tail Feather Seasons of Love Nothing's Gonna Harm You Hot Stuff (*snerk*) The Winner Takes it All 
Phantom of the Opera As Long As There's Christmas
My Heart Will Go On I Believe I Can Fly Those are the ones that make me snicker the most, anywho. By the way, random, completely OT observation... I wonder how many other people can put their playlist on shuffle and have "The Magic Flute" directly followed by something from "ABBA"... |
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| Tenalto |
Me! Except it's Queen. Then there's some Chanticleer, Mediaeval Baebes, and a showtune to follow. |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
My auditions are in about a week and a half, if all goes well and my mum still lets me go. It's a pro regional show, so I've got no illusions of getting cast ... I am going for Cosette, however. They asked us to sing from the show and they told the Cosette-wannabes to prepare IML and AHFOL. |
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| EponineMNFF |
Ahhhh break a leg! My fingers are crossed for you! |
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| Fantine |
You'll do great! And even if you don't make it, it'll be an experience you'll never forget.
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
Are. You. Kidding. Me.
Me! Or something of the sort. It's usually some Hindemith or Prokofiev or ... yes, Magic Flute (we're playing the overture in my orchestra!) ... followed by Sinatra or Les Mis. ... Honestly, that all I have on my iPod... |
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| lesmisloony |
AHHHH I LOVE THE OVERTURE TO THE MAGIC FLUTE! I always hum along, or do a little finger-dance or something when it comes on. It just makes me so happy! I also love "Zu Hilfe!" and "Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja" and "Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-papageno" and and "Schnelle Fusse, rascher Mut" and "Der Holle Rache kocht in meinen Herzen"... I have a nasty habit of trying to sing along with the last one first thing in the morning, despite being an alto... I'm going to break my voice. And the ears of everyone on the hall.
As for ABBA... What can I say, I love 'em. The Winner Takes it All, Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Mamma Mia, Money Money Money, The Name of the Game, Take a Chance on Me, Voulez-Vous....
*needs to get a life*
Heh, it's actually part of "Blues Brothers Medley," which also has "Think" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" |
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| Orestes Fasting |
I tried to teach one of our cockatiels to sing that once. It... didn't go over too well. (I also knew somebody with a lovebird named Figaro. The bird didn't seem to have picked up on the musical origins of her name, since whenever I sang "Non piu andrai" she just tried to bite me.) |
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| Fantine |
I love birds
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
I believe we were discussing the Castle on a Cloud reprise during "Dawn of Anguish" a few pages ago ... and I didn't know what you guys were talking about. But now I do.
My heart before that 8-second reprise: 
My heart after that 8-second reprise: 
In other words ... wow. These orchestrations are wonderful. |
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| Quique |
^ Beautiful, isn't it?
I get a lump in my throat every time I hear it and it made me tear up when I'd saw it live. I love how it hints at shattered dreams and naive hopes, which is later mentioned in "Turning." What a brilliant reprisal of melody. |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
I was listening to it on my iPod at the gym, and I very nearly fell off the treadmill.
It's funny how eight seconds of music can give you a deeper understanding of a show. ... For me, at least. 'Cause it told me that the "castle on a cloud" wasn't just the fantasy of an abused 8-year-old girl ... it was the life everyone was desperate for, the new world that Enjolras and the others were fighting for, the justice Javert sought all his life, the freedom that Valjean (and Cosette, I suppose) wanted ... *shrug* I don't know. It's how it struck me. |
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| lesmisloony |
Yes exactly. It meant so much, yet it appeared so incidental... | ||||||
| Quique |
Curse them for cutting it out.
Btw, do the regional productions do the whole show pre-cuts? |
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| Orestes Fasting |
The regionals usually decide independently what to cut. North Shore Music Theatre got away with leaving the first act mostly intact--score! But I've heard (of) some pretty awful cuts in some of the European regionals, so it swings both ways. | ||||||
| Quique |
Oooh, that's good to hear. I thought the Broadway and tour cuts were now the standard everywhere. There's hope yet! | ||||||
| Orestes Fasting |
Well, there might still be time constraints. NSMT kept all of the Act II cuts and made a few new ones. But it seems the regionals get to decide what gets kept and what gets cut, and get the freedom to make really boneheaded decisions if they want to. (The Baden production's final battle... well, PM me for details if you're really feeling masochistic.) Maybe someday, someone will be smart enough to realize how much time and silly-looking blocking could be saved by axing the Runaway Cart music. | ||||||
| Quique |
Really?
Reminds me of most regional productions of Showboat, which also have the freedom to cut what they like, and they often f*ck up the show. 
That's the only cut I'd support, lol. |
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| lesmisloony |
Out of context, I adore the runaway cart music. It makes me jump up and conduct wildly. But it is a bit silly in the show, running around in circles. And I detest that Fauchelevant always ends up inside the wheel of the cart. | ||||||
| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
OMG you're an air-conductor, too?! I'm a massively nerdy air-conductor ... it makes my mum shake her head and sigh, wondering how on earth she birthed such a strange child ... |
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| Quique |
I'm a wild air conductor, too. lol
Even worse, I'd sometimes hum the orchestrations, which would frustrate people cause you'd have to be familiar with them in order to know it was Les Mis. |
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| EponineMNFF |
I DO THAT TOO! Or when I start singing a song from the show and a friend starts singing along with me, I let them sing the lyrics and I do the orchestrations. It's so fun! 
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| lesmisloony |
Hahaha, spastic Mizzies! |