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| Anne1doug |
What is the difference between school edition and regularwhat is the difference between the school edition of les miz and the regular play?? do they have the full gavroche song? what is gavroches part like? (this is the part i'm going for) also i'm a mezzo soprano and i was wonderign is anyone had n e songs they would suggest for me to sing for my audition??thanx, xo anne |
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| CheezyAsCats |
No one dies in the school edition and they all skip merrily through the fields having a picnic and learn a good moral lesson. | ||
| ALoneWanderer |
Javert doesn't kill himself, but rather ends up realizing Valjean is a good guy and ends up helping him. I actually like this version more as it has more of a morale.
Cheezyascats is kind of exagerating, some people die but they avoid having any of the main characters die. Like Enjolras doesn't get killed, but some of his men do. And that part about a picnic is also less than true, they just all have dinner together for the final scene (as Valjean and Fantine didn't die...Fantine only went into a coma that she wakes from in the end). So yeah everyone ends up alive and Valjean, Fantine, Cosette, Eponine (who didn't die but just got lost on her way back), Javert Enjolras and all the other principles I might be forgetting have this feast together. Not really a picnic but it is a much happier ending 
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| The Very Angry Woman |
Don't forget the pony rides. |
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| ALoneWanderer |
Yeah how did I forget! A lot of schools with the budget have the optional final scene (it comes with the MTI liscence but you arnt required to take it) which has all of the characters riding on horses "into the sunset" for the final curtain closing. It's really really dramatic and beautiful looking but a lot of people can't afford to try to have horses or something like horses (usually ponies as TVAW said) just for that scene.
Everything else is more or less the same though. |
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| Ian UK |
 Come on kiddies, play nice.
Anne1doug, there are lots of threads on this board detailing the differences. I'm sure if you search for "schools edition" you'll find what you're looking for. |
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| Anne1doug |
does gavroche die? and do they have his full song | ||
| ALoneWanderer |
No gavroche doesn't die, he's present at the banquet as well. They cut his singing down quite a bit as well if I recall correctly. | ||
| ALoneWanderer |
Any more questions? | ||
| sadie1208 |
The school edition that I saw recently they did not sugar coat it at all. | ||
| ALoneWanderer |
If by sugar coat you mean didn't include the changes we've listed theres a good chance it wasn't actually the school edition and they illegally used the original with some minor changes.
Tsk tsk tsk. |
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| Lazarus (Adam G) |
I hate the School Edition. | ||
| ALoneWanderer |
Mmk, I'm beginning to get kind of concerned.
You people do realize I was kidding right? As were CheezyAsCats and TVAW. |
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| Magic2Do |
From what I saw, very little difference. | ||
| Lazarus (Adam G) |
I know, but I still hate the school edition. |
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| Anne1doug |
if ur school does les mis do they HAVE to do the school edition or can they do the full one? | ||
| Mademoiselle Lanoire |
They have too do the SE. The full one is not available for amateurs, or for most professional companies, for that matter. | ||
| The Very Angry Woman |
Ur is an ancient city in Mesopotamia. The word you should be using is "your." |
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| Lazarus (Adam G) |
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| musical4eva |
we did the school edition and it was pretty much the same as the full length show only some of the songs were shortened. At the end the only principals alive were Cosette, Marius and the Thenardiers. isnt that how it is in the real one? | ||
| Lazarus (Adam G) |
lol wtf ur gay 
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| piscesmoni |
Eh, director's call, no matter how uncanny it is. | ||
| PublicFlogging |
Are you serious...? 
...If my school ever does Les Mis, I think I'm going to have to make everybody shirts that say in big red letters "I should be dead" to wear for the last scene... |
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| ALoneWanderer |
Hahaha, I thought I was dripping with enough sarcasm there, but apperantly not. I recommend reading the whole thread 
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| lesmisroxmysox |
yeah, thats how it is in the real one. I was in the school edition too and really loved it. all these people are just being... silly. 
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| The Very Angry Woman |
No, opinionated. I'm glad you liked it, but the sentiment is not the same across the board. |
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| christinadaae |
whoa...... definatley didn't catch on to the sarcasm until about 3 posts.
I was in school edition, and it was pretty much the same. We added back in some of the music waht was cut, because we're cool like that. IF you're going to do the student edition, the song I most recommend adding back in is the "confrontation" between javert and valjean after fantine's death. christina |
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| aidancarr |
bring him home: in A or in F? i will cry if it's in F | ||
| Orestes Fasting |
The school edition videos of BHH on YouTube are in A. |