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I love all of the members of the patron-minette. babet, claquesous, and (checks smudged writing on hand) monty python

#montparnasse #les mis #he would hate this ❤️ #and i love that

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I’m sure this has been done before

#beyond the barricade #les mis brainrot #love the future is THINE !!!

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LET COSETTE BE BRUNETTE COWARDS

#les mis #les miserables #cosette #LET HER

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i saw the national tour of les misérables! and i have THOUGHTS

light spoiler warnings ahead!! ⚠️

-randy jeter and cameron loyal were SO GOOD as valjean and javert, bring him home was so so beautiful and javert’s soliloquy was one of the best i’ve ever heard

-matt crowle playing thenardier was also SO good, thenardiers tend to be a bit over the top for my liking but he was greattt and his dog eats dog was so haunting, him saying “you can be happy or you can be married” took me OUTT

-devin archer and haley dortch have BEAUTIFL voices and were another amazing highlight i couldn’t stop thinking about haley’s fantine, enjolras had a PRESENCE and he was haunting at the barricades, christopher james tamayo playing montparnasse was so slinky and even though he has such a small stage time i couldn’t keep my eyes off him

-I met jake david smith at the stage door !! his marius was the PERFECT blend of book accurate and musical accurate marius, he was silly and awkward at the same time and he was very kind after the show and i had a conversation with him! his empty chairs was of course beautiful but i thought he really stood out in a heart full of love and one day more

-the gun shots are VERY loud

-THE RUNAWAY CART SCENE WAS. INCREDIBLE. I WADNT EXPECTING THE CART OR THE BARRICADE IN LATER SCENES TO BE AS BIG AS THEY WERE

-speaking of the barricade, the final battle was. so good. the deaths of the les amis was. just so good. i think enjolras dying was the most beautiful and tragic thing ive ever seen in my life, (some light spolier) they gave him his spotlight at the top of the barricade and then he just. fell. weightless. and they had enjolras die first and grantaire die last, symbolizing how he was the last to commit to the republic and the parallels were just so good, r reaching out for r and running up the barricade was so. i’m speechless

-another really good scene was javert’s soliloquy, as aforementioned cameron loyal was AMAZING, but the staging of it was also incredible and everyone gasped and cooed and it was just impossible to look away from the stage, the bridge moving in and out was so symbolic and the whole scene was just incredible

-during red and black grantaire checked out enjolras’ ass after the bottle toss bit and it was hilarious

-i really like the book allusions !! the staging for éponine death !! it gives her back some of her book ending with her taking a bullet for marius and i thought it was a nice tidbit, or at the thenardiers inn they had the sergeant de waterloo sign, and kyle adams as grantaire addlibbed a “you’re new here!” to marius

overall, the show was absolutely beautiful and absolutely worth the wait, everyone was phenomenal and seeing it live was an experience that i’ll think about for the rest of my life

#les mis #les miserables #les mis tour #theatre #les misérables musical #musical theatre

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Brickclub 5.1.23 “Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk”

What do you SAY about this one. It’s so, so awful, and it’s so, so perfect.

Everything culminates at this moment; Enjolras reaches the end of everything, alone. We see little indications in the last fight that he’s come to value the personal and not just the universal–the way he shields the men who are panicking and trying to save their own skins, the way he kisses Mabeuf’s hand. We know he did everything for love, even if it’s not the same kind of love other people have. But he’s going to die alone.

And then he isn’t.

It’s so RIGHT, the way his last moment is about the personal, and Grantaire’s last moment is about embracing the universal and declaring himself part of the Revolution, at least for Enjolras’s sake.

And even the way the chapter doesn’t end with that supreme moment of apotheosis feels perfect. Enjolras remains standing, Grantaire falls–and then we hear much, much more than we want to about the awful, stupid mop-up where the rest of the insurgents are being massacred horribly.

I couldn’t figure out why that felt so right until @fremedon clued me in: it underlines the fact that Enjolras got a personal ending, not a universal one. His miracle didn’t fix anything external, it only fixed the ending for him personally. And that’s huge. That’s enough.

And, if Enjolras is also Fantine, this moment is also the antidote to her horrible, grisly, stupid death. Because Enjolras got the perfect death that Javert took from her.

Because the person Enjolras was waiting for showed up in time.

#that last line #les mis #sobbing

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rip courfeyrac you would’ve loved payaso de rodeo

#courfeyrac #les mis #les miserables #dancing #he would do all of them all of the levels

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Gavroche is a force of destruction who lives in an elephant; truly the best character to exist ever

#this gets me everytime #gavroche #i love him dearly

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please indulge me. i’m curious

#usually marius #but half the ones i’ve taken don’t have him #in which case i get r or jehan #but usually r #they’re me and i’m them #noodleboy fr #les amis

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brb crying about grantaire

#me all the time #i love him so much #he’s so interesting #and about the 25th #hadley fraser #is so good #hadley as grantaire is sobbing hours #it’s so beautiful #and i have so many emotions

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idk how to explain it but modern au feuilly wears bucket hats in my mind

#les mis #les miserables #feuilly #and flannels

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i know that some people don’t like turning, but i love it and the parallels between it and drink with me are SO interesting to me

like

“will the world remember you when you fall?” // “no one ever told them that a summers day can kill…”

and

“can it be your death means nothing at all?” // “where’s that new world now the fighting’s done?”

i’m not saying that grantaire is completely right, as obviously we wouldn’t have the show if he was, but the women are a direct example of what grantaire is saying and what he is critiqued for. the people in that moment DONT know that the barricade boys intended to be martyrs, they don’t remember who it is that passes or what they really meant, and the world isn’t the place of concord and harmony that enjolras envisioned. the people are still hurting. turning is why the les amis built that barricade, but i also think it gives grantaire more of the dimensions he doesn’t get in the musical. the audience can see where he is coming from, his cynicism isn’t unfounded, it’s from seeing the world and living in it.

#les mis #les miserables #les miserables musical #grantaire #drink with me #just a thought

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joly and bossuet

#les mis #joly #bossuet #incorrect les mis #les miserables

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*woman across the street getting robbed*

Marius: hey! get your damn hands off her!

Courfeyrac: really? you’re gonna threaten him by quoting “back to the future?”

#les mis #les miserables #incorrect quotes #incorrect les mis quotes #source: psych #marius pontmercy #courfeyrac #bold of us to assume marius would see that but #incorrect les miserables quotes

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Combeferre: You understand that we’re going to be killed at the barricades

Gavroche: Only if I die

Combeferre: …yes…that’s what being killed means…

#les mis #les miserables #incorrect quotes #source: thor ragnarok #combeferre #gavroche #gavroche thenardier

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i saw a post on another app the other day where someone said they don’t like marius because he “abandoned his loving grandfather” and i can’t stop thinking about it?? marius “always trembling and mute before” M. “let me see you, good-for nothing” Gillenormand ?? babe disliking marius is one thing but pick a valid reason pls and thank you

#les mis #les miserables #marius pontmercy #victor hugo

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thinking about eponine saying “i’m the devil but it’s all the same to me” like how did victor hugo casually just write about a deeply traumatized girl believing that so deeply that she is unworthy of most things and evil but still performing small acts of kindness despite her shitty life (watering the flowers) and not become absolutely obsessed w her