Re: TAC

lottielou22 · TAC

Is Rue McClanahan in this?? The chick who sings, "I know what you give! Give them all the pox!" etc. etc. looks an awful lot like her...

Also, does anyone else find Colm Wilkinson's mouth and eyebrow movements to be a little distracting sometimes??

The Very Angry Woman · Re: TAC

Bramblefox · Re: TAC

lottielou22

That he is.
So's Michael Ball... right before he comes in during "In My Life", he does this dramatic little turn thing... the camera's focusing on the orchestra, but behind the conducter you can see him do it.
I can't really describe what it is he does exactly, but it's funny.

mezzo_soprano

Michael Ball Stroking lea's hair. Laughing

EponineMNFF

Michael Ball sticking his nose in Lea's hair at the end of ALFOR. xD It honestly looks like he's wiping his nose. Oh Michael Ball. You think you can get away with anything.

Fantine

Don't forget Colm's �ber long finger nail.

Brunnhilde

And how about Colm' �ber long high notes, ending with a strange noise? Twisted Evil

Oh, Ball. Poor Lea... Very Happy

Fantine

Brunnhilde

I like it, too, but I always giggle when he does that.

2-4-6-0-1111111111111111111111-oh I'm runnning out of breath but I won't stop now-111111111yelp!

And he forgets "Look".
Twisted Evil

Wonder why Javvie choose death? Twisted Evil

EponineMNFF

I think I read something about Young Cosette picking her nose in the background, but I haven't seen it in a few months. Hahahahaa.

lesmisloony

^She is. In My Life.

And if you pay attention to Mikey throughout Act I, he seems to have something on his nose. He spends a lot of time rubbing the nose with his sleeve, and when he finally stops PQ leans over, whispers something, and points to his own nose. Which sets Mikey off all over again.

*has seen the TAC wayyy too many times*

EponineMNFF

Hahahahhahaha. So good. I love the TAC.

I also love at the beginning of the Waltz of Treachery when Little Cosette is very clearly laughing out loud and is trying to hide behind Colm so nobody sees her. XD

Fantine

I remember another one (which my mother pointed out to me):
After ALFOR, Michael Maguire points at Michael Balls make-up because its run through. He tries to wipe it clean.

lottielou22

Yeah... I wouldn't mind Michael Ball stroking my hair, though, lol... you know, when he was cute... back in the day...
I was watching the TAC with some of my family and it was at the end of "Little Fall of Rain" and everyone was quiet and my cousin randomly blurts out, "If she's homeless, (?) wouldn't her hair be all greasy and nasty?" and my little sister, who was like 6 at the time, said, "well it is now after that guy blew his nose in it."
I also love how Gavroche is randomly RIGHT THERE, just hovering in the corner of the screen, all during Little Fall of Rain. It's funny somehow.
Who does Michael Maguire play, btw??

Catherine

Enjolras.

lizavert

Is it just me, or does Michael Maguire look sort of...blank most of the time?

Fantine

lottielou22

Okay, thanks.
Michael Maguire is like the living breathing version of the animated Gaston.

curlyhairedsoprano91

Maguire's kind of hot in a "I pretty much know I'm hot" sort of way. Some of his high notes in the TAC performance, though, are not quite so hot.

lottielou22

I adore Michael Ball, though... I kept rewinding back to his "Red and Black". (I have the VHS. I commandeered it from my grandfather. Very Happy

)
He's such a weird looking old guy now though. (Michael Ball, not my grandfather.)

curlyhairedsoprano91

lesmisloony

= pretty scary.

But I think (other than that particular look) he's still a pretty good-looking bloke.

Without the creepy pervbeard:

See? He looks fine. Especially considering he's not that much younger than my father.

(Hope the people in these photos I ganked from facebook don't mind suddenly having their faces on this forum...)

Fantine

Haha

Quique

He looks great in the 2nd photo. The first, well, LOL.

lottielou22

Oh, those dimples... *swoon*
Yeah, that first one is how he looked in the picture when I looked him up recently, so you can probably see why I thought he was weird looking.

curlyhairedsoprano91

Yeah, I see.
I used to be 100% obsessed with Michael Ball back in the days when the TAC was my only exposure to Les Mis. I thought he was the cutest thing ever.
When he doesn't have the pervbeard, I've always thought he had a little bit of a Paul McCartney vibe going.

lottielou22

He does, doesn't he??
How very interesting.

mastachen

I never liked Michael Ball to be honest. I remember I already talked about this and Soprano and LML all jumped to his defense. I said that Cosette was probably cheating on Michael Ball!Marius and Michael Ball!Marius knows about it but is too scared to confront her about it. lol

My favorite cast members in the TAC are Jenny Galloway and Lea Salonga. Both were extremely nice when I met them. And I love Philip Quast just for his awesome singing.. and for the fact that he's played both Turpin and Emile.

curlyhairedsoprano91

SomeoneLikeYou

Soprano!

Read the last post by me on Fantine's thread to see my opinion of Ball's Rehab rendition. Mr. Green

curlyhairedsoprano91

Hahahaha! Yeah. That's freaking disturbing.

SomeoneLikeYou

You better believe it. I loved your reply, too...

The Very Angry Woman

curlyhairedsoprano91

No one's slick as Gaston, no one's quick as Gaston, no one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston's ...

SomeoneLikeYou

LOL. That is a brilliant song, I love it. But I think we're on the wrong forum. Cool

As long as we're briefly talking of BatB, why not drop by that forum and post in my Song Elimination Game?

Monsieur D'Arque

Ah, that reminds me of a ribald old piece of Beauty and the Beast Backstage Humour.

LeFou, in our choreography, was on his knees during that verse, and he eventually turned to face Gaston. It was customary for people backstage to get on their knees and sing the "No one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston" line as though they were choking on something...

His what, now?

lesmisloony

I always heard Jenny Galloway was rude at the stagedoor. Lud knows she ignored the hell out of me.

EponineMNFF

mastachen

My conversation with Jenny:

Me: Hi, will you sign my playbill.
Jenny: Oh sure, would be glad to.
Me: I thought you were great tonight.
Jenny: Thank you.

That's a good experience. It went better than my conversation with Lea Salonga.

Me: Hi, my sister and I are big fans.
Lea: Oh. Thanks for coming.
Me: I think you're pretty.
*awkward silence*

My best experience with a Les Mis cast member was with Marissa McGowan. She's so cute! Smile

Vanessa20

Jenny was nice to me when I met her at the stage door. I've never forgotten her self-deprecating humor.

Me: (gushing) I've listened to you so many times in the TAC!
Jenny: Poor girl!

I remember that night so well. It was freezing cold and windy, but getting to talk to most of the cast and touch Adam Jacobs' coat sleeve (I'm a fangirl) was worth it.

Fantine

Haha I like the turn around of this thread though. You're right Michael Maguire does look like Gaston. Too bad that he even acts that way though Shocked

Brunnhilde

Oh, if I could meet them... Crying or Very sad

But they are so far.

I only met opera singers, but not in the stage door, in the dressing room. Because I'm brave. Very Happy

I just walked in with my friends.

The cutest was maybe Christian Franz, my dream-Siegfried, and Juha Uusitalo, the young Finnish bass, was very nice and funny, too.

I hope next year I can meet the divine Matti Salminen. I couldn't catch him this year... oh, people, he's the most frightening Hagen ever.

But no Mizzies yet, except our gang. Wink

Oh, if I once could meet Philip. Just to say him how much beauty and joy he gave to the world. And igf possible, hug the best Javert. Embarassed

Vanessa20

Orestes Fasting

bigR

Orestes Fasting

Interesting. Over here the dressing rooms are definitely a private space--somewhere you might invite your friends or family, definitely not somewhere you'd expect to find a random fan. Many theatres have security to keep unauthorized people from just wandering backstage.

EponineMNFF

Hm. I'd say my best stage door experience was either with Melissa Lyons (who was very nice to me when I went up to her sobbing about how much I loved the show... yeah... it's kind of embarrassing in hindsight, but it was my first time!) or with Megan McGinnis, who found out that we went to the same voice teacher, and offered to take me (AND LESMISLOONY WOOT) backstage the next night. Shocked

It was wonderful.

/completely offtopic.

Wow. That was a long sentence.

curlyhairedsoprano91

bigR

I think that the reason they allow you to wait by the dressing rooms is because very few people ask to do it. Waiting for the actors at the end of a theatre show is very uncommon, so if someone asks to do it once in a while nobody sees it as something inconvenient ot bothersome.

Now, I don't know how it is in these new plays that have started casting tv show's participants with a huge base of teenagers fans a couple of years ago. I've never been to any of them.
Maybe they have different rules there, but traditionally there's never been stage dooring or special security measures.

Brunnhilde

I did this stalking in first after a Don Carlo. Only a few people do it in the opera. Most of them don't even know where the secret door is. Very Happy

But a friend of mine showed it and we went in. I even had a photo with Elisabetta. Very Happy

She was cute. And I got a miniCD from King Philip!

After this, when I went to the Ring this summer, I became an addict. And our singers are so happy when you gratulate them. Wink

We even stalked into the restaurant where they had a banquet after Die Walk�re, just for to search Hunding! (He was wonderful, and man, that voice... frightening. And he was very nice to us. We were so sad - he sang three evening but his roles were short. He MUST come back to Hungary and sing a big role!)

Well, opera has not so much fanatics like musicals. People just go, watch them, and go home. They don't know they could go in. Smile

If I can see LM somewhere, I'll wait for them. Very Happy

Aella

music is my life!!!

When i saw Joseph in London (With Lee Mead *squee*!!!!!) in the interval i heard someone say that he comes out the front after. Now, I was slightly baffled by this cuz i thought they came out the stage door... so, i Confused

but trusted what she said, and in the end we saw him at the front and he signed by auto book and program and i got a signed piccie!

All in a good day's work! Rolling Eyes

Quique

Orestes Fasting

The kids can be so sweet to fans--I got a backstage tour from Zach Rand and his mom without even asking for it. It just about made my year.

At the revival, Norm Lewis, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Aaron Lazar all went out of their way to be nice to fans. And in general, ensemble members tend to be utterly awesome, especially when people recognize them at the stage door. Even if it's just "Oh my god, you were the one doing the chicken dance during Master of the House, weren't you?"

curlyhairedsoprano91

Ugh, I wish I could stagedoor. I haven't been to a Broadway show since a field trip sophomore year, and I've never seen Les Mis on Broadway (or regional, for that matter). It's too expensive and time-consuming for my mom's tastes. Sad

I love stagedoor stories, though, and someday hopefully I'll have some of my own.

lesmisloony

My favourite ever was Christopher Mark Peterson because we had a picture taken with him while he was wearing The Vest. And because he then saw us at the stagedoor and helped us hunt down the other actors as they came out. Man, do something like that for a obsessive little kid and she'll still love you when she's twenty, okay?

And then of course Megan McGinnis, who gave us the backstage tour.

And we all know how I practically chased down poor Mike Evariste just because he played 'Parnasse...

Catherine

I don't really have an interesting story, except how Drew saw me crying at the end and I was ridiculously proud and my brain just about melted. And my pen wouldn't work for Chris Vincent, and I didn't recognise Stephen John Davies and I kinda had to go up to him and tap him on the back after someone pointed him out to me. XD
And him and Drew had to use this crappy gold pen my mum found in her bag. And my mum pratically melted when Gary Watson came out because, quite frankly, he is gorgeous.
OK, so I do have quite a lot of stories, but none of them are that fun.
(and everyone was really nice as well)

curlyhairedsoprano91

I like these. I'm gonna post a Stagedooring/Meetings with Actors thread in the Social Forum.

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