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| lesmisloony |
You Know You're Obsessed with Les Mis When...I looked back in the thread a ways and didn't see a topic like this around, so I thought I'd go ahead and take the liberty. Cos I know you guys are at least as obsessed as me, and certainly you have to contribute...YKYOWLMW... -your French teacher is trying to get your class to think of a word, and she says, "What's the adjective for someone willing to sacrifice life for country? Very patriotic?" and you have to bite your tongue not to shout, "Enjolraic!" -Les Mis is ending? Well, you have no choice but to shell out $200+ for an emergency trip to NYC. -you buy that game "The Movies" where you run a movie studio, and you make your little CG actors do scenes from Les Mis. Always. And then get mad when they do poorly at the CG box office. And then realize you can design your own actors, so you immediately make the hottest guy you can and name him Montparnasse and stare at his lovely little CG face way too long. Then you make all the other characters and... and... and... fail all your classes, because you forgot to do homework. -you go into the campus bookstore and, before actually finding the stuff you need for class, wander over to the Literature section to scope out their Les Mis stock. Moments later you are staring in SHOCK and DISMAY at a bookshelf displaying only two copies of the Brick, one of which has been hacked down to an ungodly 258 pages. Then you pick up the unabridged one and note the translation (Norman Denny) and play little game in which you see how quickly you can find some of your favourite passages. (And finally Montparnasse, a sorry creature. He was a youth of twenty...) -you learn the IPA in linguistics, and in order to practice you write out all the characters' names and some passages from the Book and musical in IPA. Best study technique ever. -everything can be made into an LM fanfic. Everything. (If this has been done before, just ignore it and let it fall away, but I just had to get those off me chest.) |
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| Orestes Fasting |
You've lost count of how many times you've seen the show.
Your must-see list when you went to Paris consisted of things like Saint-Merry, Montfermeil, and the sewer museum, instead of the Tour Eiffel. Your French teacher wondered why you burst out laughing when she mentioned that the French call a very thick book a "pav�," or paving stone. If provoked, you can go on for hours and hours about what you'd change if you ever directed a production of the musical. Not only do you write fanfic, you buy very thick books with dates in their titles and novella-length bibliographies as historical research for said fanfic. Your copy of the Brick is annotated, dog-eared, cracked at the spine, held together with duct tape, foodstained, and/or wavy-paged from being dropped in the bath. The discussions you've had on Les Mis have ranged from the death and resurrection symbolism in Jean Valjean's escapes to why Enjolras is always a bottom in slash fic. You've driven four hours to see, not Les Mis, but a play where a former Les Mis ensemble boy got a lead role. |
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| Quique |
-When you attend the final L.A. 3rd national tour performance of the show, and utter out loud at curtain call with tears streaming down your face in shaky voice..."End of an era!!!" 
-You can't leave the theatre after the show, without taking at least several last peeks of the open stage, holding up the rest of the people trying to leave behind you. -You have a serious fit over there not being a full color logo on the marquee at the Pantages because you feel the show deserves the royal treatment. Ugly, plain, black block letters simply won't do!!! -You have recurring nightmares about arriving late to the show, losing your tix, or the performance you're attending being cancelled. -You simply can't help defending the show, even though you know it's far from perfect and has its fair amount of flaws, lol. -When random memories of a memorable performance you saw comforts you. -You get seriously offended when any of the show's characters are bashed upon, grr. (Can't help it. They're like old friends, lol. :S) -You aren't even the slightest bit sick of it after 20 years as a fan, hehe. |
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| EponineMNFF |
-Actors at the stage door recognize you, even though you haven't seen the show in over six months.
-People can hear you humming/singing/whistling Les Mis from a city block off. -When friends are in a student production, they care most about your reaction, because they know if you think it's good, it really must be good. -You've considered stealing a loaf of bread, just to see what it's like. -Your English teacher makes comparisons to Les Mis just to keep you awake in the class. And it works. -Your college essay is partially about Les Mis. -You cosplay. -You've persuaded a friend to learn the other part to Confrontation and you break out into song every day. |
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| lesmisloony |
I really love you guys. I identify with so many things you've said...
I dreamed, two nights ago, that I arrived at the theatre in New York and had to get me cheap balcony tickets from a special box office at the top of a long winding spiral staircase. When I finally reached the top they were sold out and the lil box office guy was rude and kicked me out, but then a friend of mine sneaked in and found a seat while I sat in the lobby and tried to hear. Speaking of which... -you have had more than one dream about seeing the show in which, no matter who is acting or what is happening onstage, the lyrics in the dream are always completely correct.
For some reason my entrance essay had the prompt "It was a dark and stormy night" (I know, right?) and I used a ficlet I wrote about Babet walking about in the rain. Didn't even change it. -you realize you need a case for your bPod and headphones and batteries, so you use your mad knitting skillz to design one, and then end up making a knitting pattern out of the logo... and now you have a homemade bPod case with a giant LM logo on the front, in case people haven't gotten the idea yet. -you can't decide whether you want to be the logo or a lovely lady NEXT Halloween. -you were already learning French, but decided to go ahead and enroll in German too. After all, if *Marius* could do it... -you're sitting in class and you hear someone say, "Les Mis!" so, of course, you look up. Turns out two other kids had a bet going that you'd answer to that rather than your own name, which someone had said simultaneously on the other side of the room. "Les Mis" won the bet. -you aren't around candles much, but when you are you like to try to extinguish them with your nose. -you pass the same people every day, and eventually you just name them all after the LM character they most resemble, so now as you pass you can think, "There goes little Joly!" and "Huh, didn't see Dahlia today..." -you register for French lit in the hopes that they will study LM (and... why wouldn't they?) because you can BYO...Book. After all, you DO have every translation including the original French... -you kind of want to buy a cane and rub your nose with it. -you know what the above was referring to. |
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| Leading Lady |
- You own multipule cast recordings (official and...not quite official  ) and buy as many as you can get your hands on.
I won't say how many I own, people might call the men in white coats. |
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| lesmisloony |
Hahaha, from what I've seen around here, no matter how many you have, someone has more than you.
-you take it upon yourself to buy every movie version that you can, but then realise you're running out of room on your DVD shelf, so you have to make a special shelf for your various LM movies. And while you're at it, you put your various copies of the Brick on the shelf as well. And all your carefully-preserved playbills. And some little statues of the characters you've made out of modelling clay. And LM scenes you created with your little brothers Legos. And then, before long, you realise you've created a LM shrine. ...well, might as well worship it. -seeing the entire play twice in one day is enviable, not insane. Durr. |
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| Fantine |
I would add some, but I'm not half as crazy as you guys, so that wouldn't be fun 
Well, apart from going on holiday to Montreuil-Sur-Mer. |
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| flying_pigs |
-When other people say they're going to see Les Mis, you get overally excited and tell them all about it, including who is good/bad in the cast. Then beg them for details after they've seen it.
-Your whole family go and see it on your birthday, your brother and dad miss Act II as your brother has been sick. You start crying as you really wanted your little brother to love it as much as you! (I want a Les Mis friend!) -You can always find something that relates to Les Mis! -You search Les Mis in eBay. -And end up buying a pen, an old programme and other random things of no use to anyone except Les Mis fans. -You end up going to see the show with a family your mum knows but who you've never met before, but had a spare ticket so your mum persuades them to take you. -You're known as the girl obsessed with Les Mis -Friends roll their eyes when you say you're going to see Les Mis, then proceed to ask 'What number is this?' -When your PE teacher asks you why you can't play in a netball match, you reply you're going to the theatre and she automatically knows it's to see Les Mis. -You're own mother now refuses to see it with you even though it's her favourite musical too. Due to how you probably get too excited about it and don't stop talking about it. -Someone says a word/phrase and you start singing a Les Mis song with that word/phrase. -Your media studies exam is on the music press, you write about Les Mis and other musicals and get an A in the exam. Oh dear, I am obsessed! |
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| Orestes Fasting |
Don't start worrying until you get into the triple digits. *shifty eyes* And Fantine, isn't Montreuil-sur-Mer cute? |
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| Fantine |
It is, very pretty  I was absolutely thrilled that they had a shop called Fantine there. You said it was an underwear shop, right? I thought it was a flowershop! :O Quite different Naughty even... Hehe.
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| Orestes Fasting |
Well, I'm pretty sure that "Les Dessous de Fantine" was a lingerie shop... it was closed when I went there, but that's what it looked like. There could've been a flower shop called Fantine that I missed, though. | ||||
| Mademoiselle Lanoire |
Re: You Know You're Obsessed with Les Mis When...
I've had that happen to me. |
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| lesmisloony |
-you have given some characters complex backstories that you suddenly realise you're beginning to take as canon.
-every time you say "Les Mis" someone rolls their eyes. -you refuse to believe that the show has flaws. No, no flaws at all. -you actually consider buying the 98 movie or a copy of 'Cosette,' just because it's LM related and going cheap on eBay... and then you decide that you should punish yourself (Arthur Dimmesdale-style) for even letting such a throught cross your mind. -whenever there's a lull in a phone conversation, you burst into LM. Usually Plumet Attack, and usually in French. But it's awfully fun to scream "Go home, Ponine, go home, you're in the WAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!" into your friends' ears. -you find out how to play DYHTPS on a phone keypad, albeit with one wrong note, and proceed to torture your friend in this way as well. -you keep a copy of the Brick by the computer, just in case someone's fanfic has a detail wrong. And n00b fanfic? Forget it, they're getting a review as long as the Book itself. -when inspired to curse, you find yourself saying something like "Merde aux sbires et aux menteurs!" or "Merde aux oiseaux de malheur!" because... those are your favourites. -Favourite! Like, y'know, the character... Favourite... -every time you learn a new rule or something in French, you try to find a lyric from the PRC that backs it up. avoir in the futur: "Elle AURA... tous, comme ma propre fille!" and then there's "mais il prefere que je SOIS libre" for the ... whatever that one's called. The "que" thing. -you intend to just read recent posts on this topic, but you have so much to contribute that you can't help making a lengthy post... |
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| kittengoespop |
Subjonctif. |
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| Catherine |
You have special nicknames for all the characters, even when they don't need them, and your friends just ifnore you when you drift off thinking of little Cossy and Gavvy. | ||||
| eponine5 |
You have a competition with you friend to see how many les mis musical quotes you can fit into your coursework
- the rhymes didn't go down too well... You constantly had something or other from Les Mis stuck in your head for a year and a half after you first saw the show. You've paid for half of your friend's ticket because that was the only way they'd see the show You don't spend your money on clothes, magazines, etc but on Les Mis tickets You make all the main characters in Les Mis (based on your favourite cast) on 'The Sims' You've spent time logically convincing yourself that being shot can't be so bad, because the les mis characters suffered the same 
You see a maths question in a test with the letter L and q next to each other and you can't do any work until you have finished running through Red and Black in your head Everyone else listens to their mp3 player; you watch Les Mis in your head You forget the date of your own birthday because you were only counting down the days until you next saw Les Mis You have a notebook containing all your favourite Victor Hugo quotes You walk into a library, suspiciously pick up a 1100 page copy of the novel, read one page, and inform the librarian that it's abridged. You are chucked out of a second-hand bookshop in France because you informed the bookseller that one of the volumes in an old edition of Les Mis is missing -despite the fact that you can't read French |
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| lesmisloony |
-you always bring your LM songbook along to the practice rooms, no matter what else, and then you get really frustrated by how shortened Drink With Me is, so you spend about fifteen minutes writing in Marius's part at the end and the womens' echoes to the third verse. NOW you can play it the way it SHOULD be!
-you finish playing 'Stars' on the piano and then sort of sound out that little Gavroche part. Then, while you're at it, you tap out the melody for "Cosette, now I remember (etc)" and go ahead and do Red and Black. Half an hour later, you've made it the the ODM and finally give up at the bit where everyone starts singing at the same time. And you're late to class. |
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| Electricity24601 |
When you have a conversation with your best friend lasting for 2 class periods... in all Les Mis lyrics
When your mom makes you a barricade cake for your birthday, and a cake with a red flag and the caption "The summers fly, one by one, and then you have another birthday" the next year. When your b-day present has been Les Mis txts for the past two years. When you love cast members to the point of stalking (as in you know stupid things like how tall they are, where they met their spouse, etc) The stagehands at the Broadhurst recognize you When you've met up with people from fan clubs to see the show together (of course in a public place- internet safety!) When your english honors entrance essay compares Les Mis to the poem "Richard Corey" When you are doing this instead of your Crucible essay. More to come, I'm sure. |
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| Quique |
Hahahaha, people roll their eyes at me all the time when I mention Les Mis. They can't believe I'm not sick of it yet. They're like...  
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| mastachen |
You play the Les Mis CSR from beginning to end, starting at 8pm, pause for applause break and intermission, and see if you can end before 11pm, 8 times a week.
And as years go on, you incorporate the cuts by skipping ahead of some of the songs. And you still do this 8 times a week. |
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| ErikProuvaire |
Hooray! A Jolllly reference! Here's another Jolllly reference. - if you wish you could direct a production of Les Mis so that you could have our dear little hypochondriac actually sing like a hypochondriac. |
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| Eponine93 |
Nothing about going to England just to see John Owen Jones? Also... what about when you meet up with friends of friends just to see if they're more obsessed with Les Mis than you are. |
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| lesmisloony |
"Here's do widdy girls who wedt do our beds..." -you find what students have which lines, and then wonder for ages why the above was assigned to Joly. I mean, I know he had Musichetta and all, but the connotations of that line make the hypochondriac in ME go, "AUUUGH DISEASES!" (I think Joly prefaces most of his statements with "Auugh!") -you are convinced that the movie "Something's Gotta Give" must have SOMETHING to do with Les Mis... and even if it doesn't, you know you could make a connection if you'd watch it. |
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| herkind |
I thought I was the only one who did that! It's how I keep myself awake in class. |
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| EponineMNFF |
I DO THAT TOO! I'm glad I'm not alone. And I always start with me filing into the front row and waiting a few seconds before it starts. Haha. I combine casts too to make my dream cast... or something I insert myself. <.< |
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| Electricity24601 |
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one  . Granted, there are other things I love across the pond... but what's the point of going to London if we don't get tickets to see Les Mis, especially with JOJ?
And of course, meeting up with friends of friends (and risking my own life by meeting someone from online! Strangerdanger!  ) to compare Les Mis interests
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| lesmisloony |
In the friends-of-friends strain,
-one of your friends has been telling you all about her LM-obsessed boyfriend, and how much you two will get along. When you finally meet him, you have a forgettable discussion of the show, but one thing sticks in your mind: he criticised the way you pronounced 'Enjolras.' Soo, you go back to your room, go to the "Lay Miz-ah-rahb" (or whatever) page at lesmis.com, make sure you were pronouncing it right (you were, duh), and then find out what his email address is and send him a link to the page. NO ONE questions MY fanhood, dammit! |
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| lesmisloony |
-you watch the TAC with a bunch of friends and pause it whenever there's a cut, performing the scene yourself so said friends will know what they're missing by not watching the play. And then, when it gets to ODM, you leap to your feet and begin doing the little march, insisting that your friends march along. They do, because they are wonderfully patient and used to such outbursts. | ||||
| lesmisboy |
...you have all of your worldwide production posters professionally framed and realise, when you get the 47th poster back, that you simply have no more room..... | ||||
| EponineMNFF |
You're so disappointed when you check the Les Mis forum and nobody has posted since you last checked. | ||||
| kozafluitmusique |
I do that sometimes...it's fun
-You nickname people in your journal after Les Mis characters
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| lesmisloony |
You see a LM wall clock going on eBay for about $25 including shipping and handling.
It has an hour and a half left. Should I get it? No bids yet. I already have a clock, but it's not a /LM/ clock, this is unworthy of my love. . . . I really want it. But I know it's kind of dumb to keep buying things off eBay. But I want it. A lot. 
See how Les Mis-y and also clock-y it is? I don't have one of those yet. ^^My actual internal dialogue at the moment. If someone gets online before 10:30 PM tonight and sees this... what do you think? Should I? I've been staring at the page for about fifteen minutes now. ...Wow I'm a moron. |
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| Electricity24601 |
When you are discussing the sybolism of the black Puritan clothing and the red rosebush in the first chapter of the Scarlet Letter in English, and all you can think is
RED the blood of angry men BLACK the dark of ages past. And then you raise your hand and actually tell everyone this. |
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| lesmisloony |
Hahahahaha you WIN AT LIFE! |
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| Electricity24601 |
Why thank you
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| lesmisloony |
-you bought the clock.
-you have a wretched stomach cramp at work, and playing over and over in your head is, "j'ai si mal au ventre que j'arrive � peine � marcher!" -you know what that quote has to do with LM. -And now the song is stuck in your head. |
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| Quique |
Once I was mega drunk, and hurled.
While I was hurling, I sang in loud obnoxious voice..."GOD I'M WEARY SICK ENOUGH TO DROP! BELLY BURNS LIKE FIRE WILL THE BLEEDING EVER STOP!!!!" True story. |
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| lesmisloony |
-you wake up and think, Cosette has been rescued! Joyeux Noel! | ||||
| Catherine |
When you do a play called "Across the Barricade" at school , and all you can think of is "Beyond the barricade will you stand up and take your chance..."
It was in my head all lesson. |
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| lesmisloony |
-your brother gives you the Zoo Tycoon computer game for Christmas, and so you immediately run around your cyberzoo and name all your little cyberanimals after LM characters. Then Eponine the moose gets pregnant (and duh, the father was Montparnasse the moose) you name the baby moose Azelma... and then a few minutes later you see that Azelma moose got pregnant, even the Montparnasse moose, HER FATHER, is the only male moose in the pen, and you're like... that is *so* typical of those Thenardier people...
-then you get a whole bunch of peacocks and name them all after Amis. The best part is when Combeferre gives birth to Enjolras's egg. -OH OH OH and ALSO there is the little matter of the camels called Jean Valjean and Javert... Javert's baby was named Vidocq, even though I think it was a girl too... -AND MARIUS AND COSETTE WERE POLAR BEARS. MAN, Zoo Tycoon is clearly the best game ever. ...I've been playing it for, like, an entire day. And now, having lost the same challenge a billion times in a row, I'm going to sleep. Hope everyone had a happy Boxing Day! |
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| Fantine |
You ARE loony, lesmisloony
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| TheWickedMizfit |
-even if you don't like every song in LM, you get every song on your iPod or MP3 player just so you can say that you know every word to every song.
-you spend all your free time on Youtube looking up anything that has to do with LM. -while you're on Youtube, you look up some of the school editions and stop them all after 5 seconds because you can't take the robot-like singing of the kids. -at the same time, you are laughing at the robotic voices of the children. -you hope that your high school will do LM only to later wish that you had become a LM fan 2 years ago because your school has already done it. *sigh* oh well. I'm sure we did a good job. SM is famous for our productions. GO ROYALS!! -you keep going to a LM fan fic site even though you've read every fan fic on that site at least twice. You then write 3 fan fics of your own, send them to the site only to find out that the last update was over a year ago. -you stay up all night editing your latest fan fic when you should be studying for a big chemistry test the next day. -you've taken every LM personality quiz known to man to the point that you've memorized every question and which answers to give to get each character in every quiz. (seriously, in this one on lmffi.com, I've memorized how to get every character; Valjean, Javert, Thenardier, Cosette, Fantine, Eponine, Gavroche and Enjolras) -you take LM trivia quizzes that are supposed to be really difficult only to easily score 100% -you plan an entire day of shopping with your friends just so you can get pieces of a costume of your favorite character.While on the shopping trip, your friends look at all the things you buy and go "WTF?" Umm..... should I be worried?
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| Orestes Fasting |
Awwww. You remind me of me a few years ago. Light of fresh obsession still in your eyes and all that. | ||||
| TheWickedMizfit |
Thanks....I guess? Well, right now my friends are pretty much ready to send me to a shrink (I think my mom is too). If only they knew huh? *sheepish grin* |
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| Quique |
I'm sorry, but I don't get fanfic. It's hella freaky, crazy, nasty, putrid. |
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| Orestes Fasting |
Oh, Quique. And I was going to ask you to edit my Enjolras/Grantaire porn for me! | ||||
| kozafluitmusique |
When you notice subtle, but interesting differences among cast recordings. | ||||
| Cory |
I'm a bit of a new obsessor as well. My friend got a car for his 16th birthday from his parents. I got the Entire Symphonic Recording on CD (for the past year, I had been listening to it on casette) and a copy of the Unabrdged Edition of the Brick. EDIT: I forgot to mention that mine was the better gift. What the hell am I going to do with a car? I can take a train downtown to see shows. |
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| lesmisloony |
-you're still playing the zoo game (...what?) and you are distraught when Montparnasse the Moose dies of old age.
-you listen to the OFC and, even though you don't know most of the lyrics by heart, you sing along a beat after the actor says the word. (No one else is around to be annoyed by this, of course.) And when you don't understand a phrase, you just kind of go "ladada..." But... ANYway... you realise how crazy Book accurate bits of the OFC are, like the whole Marius and Gillenormand song "Grand-pere, vous m'avez pardone." And when Valjean tells Marius he is "ancien forcat" you flashback to various French LM films in which various Valjeans used the same phrase and get really excited, go back to the beginning of the song, and make another attempt to sing along, this time *with* the ancien forcat lyric. -you work REALLY HARD to define a difference between Book and musical canon. -you make long, rambling additions to this topic. -you read other people's long, rambling additions to this topic. ...I have to apologise for this post even before I submit it, cos I guarantee it's atarded. |
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| Quique |
OK, OK, I don't hate ALL fanfic, but some of it is creepy. I've never read any of yours, but I know I'd probably get a kick out of it. Especially Enjy/Granty porn thing...I think we've all thought about the possible connection between the two at some time or another. XD |
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| Orestes Fasting |
"Marius et Monsieur Gillenormand" is an abomination unto Hugo--way to suck all the life out of M. Gillenormand, jeez. But one of my favorite lines from the OFC is from "Marchandage et R�v�lation," "C'�tait lui! Suis-je b�te?" Yes, Marius. Yes you are. | ||||
| Fantine |
And then you know, lesmisloony, I believe I am a little bit in love with you. |
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| eponine5 |
You buy a toy for your friend in a �Build a Bear� shop. She buys a wedding dress for it to wear and you exclaim that now she has to name it Cosette. She says no, but goes ahead and happens to call it �Noir�. Excellent! For the rest of the day you refer to it as �Mademoiselle Lanoire�, and when you go to Les Mis later that day you make her take the bear out during the Wedding Scene. As we were in row BB, I made sure the actors couldn't see it, that would be too distractingly cruel. | ||||
| jessiemil42 |
You watch this video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EhXsJjVdj1E and you think, "Oh...I guess other people do that too." |
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| lesmisloony |
You were watching ^^that video and your brother starts playing with ringtones on his cell phone. Instead of pausing the video and asking him to stop, you scream "SHUT UP IT'S SPONTANEOUS LES MIS!" and hold your laptop an inch from your nose.
I love you too, Fantine! In a totally platonic internet-appropriate way, of course. Also, your new icon is win.
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| Fantine |
As platonic as can be. I also believe we are both female and unfortunately I'm not a lesbian... But nonetheless
Thanks, I created that icon myself. Obesssssions..... My mom created an Eponine sculpture for me
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| lesmisloony |
That. is. amazing. -whennn you are really annoyed at the incomplete-ness of DWM in your piano book, so you drag a CD player down to the piano and put it on repeat. Then you sound out Marius's part at the end of the song and the women's echoes (mostly just an octave higher than the men, but the first note of the "drink with me" phrase is a B flat instead of an A) and write them into the piano book. -you are offended whenever anyone says you or your friends are lovely ladies. -you get bored at work, since you have a computer but no internet connection there, so you pull up Microsoft Word and just start typing as many songs from the PRC as you can. -you are mortified to realise that, though you know "Tu viens, cheri" by heart, you seem to have forgotten the order of the lyrics to its English counterpart. -you have your bPod (cheap [$60] knockoff iPod) on random, and have it plugged into the car radio for the trip home from work. As a song ends you realise you're nearing home, so you say to the [inanimate] bPod, "Find me something awesome to end the trip on." Then you hear the opening of Plumet Attack and scream in excitement. And scream again when it's 'La Casse de la Rue Plumet' or whatever from the PRC... -someone reviews one of your many Marius/Cosette fics with, "You should write a Marius/Eponine" and you literally start gagging while staring at the message. DOES... NOT... COMPUTE! (These are all things that have happened to me in the past twenty-four hours.) ...I think ^^that should count as another reason I know I'm obsessed with Les Mis... |
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| Fantine |
One of the worst things I have ever done is basically force my parents to go to the UK (or, London) to see Les Mis. Fortunately we have friends near London so that was an excuse for me. We tend to visit them once every two years... I was lucky to get to go to Les Mis back then (in 2003, first time I saw the show!) And I went back to London in the two years after that, each time seeing Les Mis.
My parents went there last October but sadly I couldn't make it this year. Luckily we're getting the DUTCH LES MIS over here now So that makes it a little better. (Although I despise the Dutch lyrics).
AND I AUDITIONED for the professional production of Les Mis. How is that for an obsession?
(It took some courage). |
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| Orestes Fasting |
It's probably also a bad sign when cast members laugh and say things like "Again? Guys, this is turning into an addiction!" at the stage door to you and your friends.
Or when half the reason you're looking forward to the Qu�bec production is so you can finally hear the French lyrics to Fantine's Arrest, the Robbery/Javert's Intervention, Dawn of Anguish, and "Alone, I wait in the shadows." Or when you've honestly lost count of the number of times you've seen the show. |
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| lesmisloony |
Ohman, Orestes, I don't know if there's any way I'll be able to see the Quebec one... but can you, like, record it or something? For us? And or me? I hadn't even *thought* of all the lyrics the French one will have that aren't on the PRC, and now I'm foaming at the mouth again. But it was enough for me to pull the NYC trip for this week out of my behind in one month; I doubt I'll manage to take a trip to Canada *this* summer on such short notice...
-YKYOWLMwhen Terrence Mann is afraid of you. |
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| Orestes Fasting |
Now what makes you think I would ever do such a thing? Stop impugning my virtue, wench.
You know you're obsessed when you find yourself singing the German lyrics under your breath. Even though the German lyrics suck. |
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| Electricity24601 |
When you go into a thrift shop for the sole purpose of finding a white shirt to wear under your newly completed Enjy vest (pics coming soon!)
When you find one, and then buy cufflinks to match When you look quickly at the word "enjoy", and see Enjy instead. |
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| lesmisloony |
You mean they're different words? ETA: -YKYOWLMW... you have this conversation. Loony: You know 'The Fugitive' is based on Les Mis, right? Friend: Um... I thought it was based on a TV series... Loony: Oh. Well, 'Catch Me If You Can' is based on Les Mis! Friend: No, that's definitely based on a true story. Loony: Well... um... The TV series 'The Fugitive' was based on Les Mis. Friend: That's... not true. Loony: SHUT UP! EVERYTHING IS BASED ON LES MIS! EVEN LES MIS IS BASED ON LES MIS! Friend: ... |
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| Catherine |
Similar to the Zoo Tycoon one, but...
-When on your game: Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, you have named your horse Ponine, and your chickens Fantine, Javert and Enjolras -You plan to enter Enjolras into the strong chicken festival, and he will win. Even if I have to do it over again and again, Enjolras the chicken will win! -You were going to name the sheep Enjolras, just to be ironic. -You plan to name all your farmyard animals after Les Mis characters, even if it means calling one Bambatois! |
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| lesmisloony |
My old computer was named Bamatabois (the monitor, that is). The hard drive was called Tholomyes, and the printer was Grantaire. My old viola case was called Claquesous, the bow was Montparnasse (slim, dark, and pretty)... And my viola's name was Raoul Enjolras Utterson Thropp Krelbourn de Chagny. I'm still trying to decide what to call my laptop... possibly Listolier...
And my late minvan, wrecked by my brother, was named Hugo. I loved him. Ahem. Carry on. |
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| Catherine |
When you plan to either:
- Get a friend into Les Mis, and force her to leran Valjean's part of the Confrontation so we can record it together OR -If no one will do it, do it yourself. It will be the first one woman Confrontation and it will be MASSIVE |
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| llamalove |
When you hear a guy sing, look at all your friends and know they're thinking the same thing: This guy is Valjean! Seriously.
And when you finally ask him if he's ever been Valjean, he says no. And you ask "Are you sure?" repeatedly. Even though you're scared of him because he's kind of creepy. When you hear that there are LM auditions coming up in a few months, so you check the website multiple times a day for more information. Even though it's early December and the website says to check back in January. And the first thing you do on January 1st is check again. And again. And again. And when it's still not posted on January 5th, you begin to freak out. When you drive 7 hours to see it on Broadway, and when someone's watch alarm goes off during "A Little Fall of Rain", your father has to kick you so you don't murder the person who destroyed the beautiful moment. When you see a horrible SE (and I mean horrible), but still bawl your eyes out because you love it so much. |
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| mastachen |
If you ever get that recorded, I'd want to hear it. lol |
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| Catherine |
I'm gonna record it now! Lemme just get the lyrics to some bits I'm not too sure on. |
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| mastachen |
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| Catherine |
Damn, my cameras ran out of battery  I'll charge it and do it tomorrow
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| mastachen |
Whaaaa! I was excited for it! lol |
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| UniquePerspective |
When you actually know the name of a book pre 20th century. | ||||
| lesmisloony |
-when you pass up getting Gary Beach's autograph for taking a picture with the guy who played Montparnasse.
-when you see that Montparnasse is not dressed as a student, but in his lil Monty costume during finale (obviously for curtain call reasons...) BUT you decide this means Monty went to heaven and get REALLY excited about it. -you freak (in a good way) when you notice that during BHH, a student (hopefully Jehan) was reading a book instead of sleeping. I... think I'm just going to post a LONG, frothing review of my LM experiences on lj. Because it was seriously BEYOND WORDS. |
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| mastachen |
You saw Gary Beach?
He NEVER came out the last 2 times I went. |
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| lesmisloony |
Yeah, he wouldn't come out in June, but he was signing autographs Thursday AND Friday. But Thursday I was busy with Montparnasse (a sentence I've always wanted to type) and Friday I was GOING BACKSTAGE WITH EPONINE OKAY.
Livejournal! Channel... hyper... to... lj... |
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| mastachen |
You went backstage with... Megan McGinnis? Damn, her and Marissa McGowan can take me ANYWHERE they want.
I wish I was you. |
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| ErikProuvaire |
- When you know that it'd best just as canonical for Combeferre to be the one reading the book. - When you know which ami de l'ABC is which onstage. |
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| Orestes Fasting |
Doug Kreeger (Prouvaire) doesn't read during BHH, he sits on the barricade writing poetry. It's Dan Bogart (Combeferre) who spends the night reading. ...god, I'm going to miss this production and its ensemble so much. |
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| DontDoSadnessxx |
got his siggy =] aww man sweetest story When i met norm lewis It was pouring rain and this lady was walking out ( think she was in the pit) and her shoe came off in a puddle and norm lewis bent down held the umbrella over her and helped her put her shoe back on. It made my heart smile =] anyway carry on =] |
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| Catherine |
A Harvest Moon update....
Enjolras the chicken won the chicken festival!! he now lays golden eggs =] Well... I guess hes a she really, considering he lays eggs and all |
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| Fantine |
You rule. YKYOWLMW: You get a new radio/CD player and you get out your (official) TAC CD's to test it. |
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| Fantine |
Next time I see the production I'm gonna pay more attention to the ensemble and try to see these little things. It will be the Dutch production (in may) which is the first time I'll see that... But I'm nonetheless aiming for going at least 3 times even though tickets are 60-70 euro's. |
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| EponineMNFF |
LESMISLOONY! *ETACKLES*
We had a fabulous time this weekend at the show. *Dies of happiness* -You know you're obsessed with Les Mis when you meet people you know from Les Mis websites at the stage door. Hahaha. *Lame* -You know you're obsessed with Les Mis when you write your college admissions essay about how much you love the show. -You know you're obsessed with Les Mis when your friends buy you clothes and explain that they got you them because they're kind of Les Mis related. (Boots and fingerless gloves? O.o But still, they're fabulous.) -You know ou're obsessed with Les Mis when for your birthday, you get a Javert coat. (I think my mom thought it was an Eponine coat when she bought it, but I like having the Javert one better. It's so awesome. I wore it for rehearsals for a show because my character reminded me of Javert. Haha.) |
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| lesmisloony |
You know you're obsessed with Montparnasse when...
Anyway, when rabidly checking the playbill, I flipped to the lil headshots to see what Montparnasse would look like so I could pick him out of the ensemble in all the other numbers as well. At first I was annoyed at the un-canon-ness of him being played by an African-American guy, but then I decided it was great, because, being the only black male, he was REALLY easy to spot in every scene. And (for the few of you who actually haven't seen the show) as Montparnasse, he wore a huge dreadlock wig which was kind of amazing. SOO... at "even his daughter does her share / that's Eponine" (etc) when Montparnasse ran up behind her and threw his arms around her waist, I cheered a little. And then I cheered again when Eponine smiled and put one hand on his cheek, then elbowed him in the crotch. And THEN I totally flipped out (in a good way again) when, during the Robbery, Montparnasse grabbed Cosette and started to drag her away. Best crackpairing ever! And then Marius, like, pulled her back. I almost fell out of my chair (profoundly annoying the people around me, I'm sure). |
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| Pannic |
You start getting the notion of putting on the show where the entire cast consists of bums, to make it seem more genuine... | ||||
| lesmisloony |
You guys, we're all online at the same time! It's crazy!
EponineMNFF, your post wasn't even there when I posted my Monty thing! Anyway, I came to share this link: http://www.napoleonic-literature.com/AgeOfNapoleon/E-Texts/Miserables.html It's a weird LM play thing with very clunky dialogue. Very Bookish and not-Bookish at the same time... like almost every LM movie I've ever seen. |
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| Electricity24601 |
Do tell! |
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| herkind |
Adam Jacobs totally cracked me up during his lame attempt at defending Cosette. You know Montparnasse could beat the crap out of him. I liked J.D. Goldblatt in the role especially the way he kept mouthing "Shut up! Shut up!" to Eponine during Attack on Rue Plumet. |
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| mastachen |
Seriously. I know lesmisloony has some interesting backstage stories she's just dying to share. lol |
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| lesmisloony |
I was waiting to see if EponineMNFF wanted to tell. Because she's the one who got us back there, after all... I've been calling all my old high school friends and telling *them* the story for about two days. But we definitely ended up walking around on the stage and touching the barricades. With Eponine as our guide. |
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| mastachen |
Oh! You meant EponineMNFF
I thought when you said Eponine led you around, I thought you were talking about Megan McGinnis LOL |
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| Orestes Fasting |
You know what's totally amazing? The guy in the Montparnasse track plays a random barricade boy with no lines and a bright red waistcoat, who gets shot first in the First Attack when the sniper mistakes it for the Enjy vest. I was listening to a podcast interview with J.D. and he said "Yeah, I play a guy called Bahorel in the barricade scenes..." This weekend must have been MADNESS backstage. I got a tour after the Saturday matinee, and in addition to everyone hauling their things out of their dressing rooms, there were three other cast members giving tours to assorted groups of friends and family and the groups kept bumping into each other. |
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| lesmisloony |
I literally gasped at that! See, Bahorel? You're just not credited! But yeah, obviously we noticed Mike with his Montparnasse hair mixed in with the students (and James Chip Leonard in there too) and we checked the playbill during intermission to see if they were "named" students. And when they weren't, we decided that the Patron-Minette had infiltrated Les Amis. We had this whole backstory going--and you know JCL was Le Cabuc... so I guess Montparnasse was there to check out this Marius guy Eponine was always muttering about... OHMAN. I have serious issues. ANYway... Random sidenote here. My friend has now seen LM five times, and James Chip Leonard has been in it EVERY. TIME. He was Montparnasse in the original Broadway closing cast, right? (Odd casting...) And he was in the tour we saw in '05... and now he's in *this* cast... And you know what? He was really arrogant at the stagedoor in June... ETA:
Actually, EponineMNFF had ~connections~ to Megan McGinnis, and all three of us went backstage... So yeah, I meant *both* of them.
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| Orestes Fasting |
Really? He's always been very nice to me, even before I started showing up regularly at the stage door. All the male ensemble members play students; Jeff Kready (Babet) and Ben Crawford (Brujon) got to hang around the caf� and barricade too, they just didn't have any lines. |
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| mastachen |
Oh I see. So I'm back to hating you then.
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| lckysvn777 |
This first time I saw Les Mis back in May or was it June  . I saw Jeff Kready as Jean Val-Jean and Ben Crawford as Javert.
Sorry for butting in  .
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| mastachen |
^Probably June, when Alex Gemignani (sp?) took a break.
I watched it in June and it was Jeff and Ben as the two male leads too. |
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| lesmisloony |
Wellll... maybe he was in a hurry or something when we talked to him. Why is there no shrugging smiley? *shrugs* There. |