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In our final week of shows we all came down to the theatre one night to take group shots from any major ensemble scenes in full costume, to make sure we could all appreciate the fully-lit efforts of the costume team for years to come.

This was our biggest group - the Beggars in Paris. It's still only about half of our cast. The full cast were genuinely never all in the same room at the same time!

#Cait Directs Les Mis #Community Theatre #Volunteers #I love everyone on this stage with my whole heart #Beggars #Les Miserables #Les Mis #Musical Theatre #Canon Era #Photography #cait makes

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#its my boy <3 #scrolling through old drafts and found this #quite different from my usual style but also quite quicker so...^^ #Gavroche #Les Miserables #Les Mis #Digital Art #Procreate #Cait Makes

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I am currently experiencing a Marauders renaissance, send help.

#a tragedy really #anyway heres a bashful Remus #Remus Lupin #My Beloved #Marauders #Digital Art #Cait Makes

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I am once again drawing scenes from a @dannypuro fic.

Dairy farm Airbnb? Sensibly sassy Feuilly?? Enjolras accosted by goats??? I am obsessed.

Read it here!

#i needed to do so many other things today #and instead i spent several hours doodling goats #hashtag NoRagrets #Enjolras #ExR #Fic Rec #DannyPURO #Goats #Enjoltaire #Les Miserables #Digital Art #Procreate #Cait Makes

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one thing that really annoys me about a lot of les mis productions is their insistence on making the les amis de l'abc older than they are. i know it's partly a schematics thing with hiring younger actors, but to me so much of the tragedy behind the barricade comes from the fact they were kids. they were college students staring at a future they despised, desperate to change it, and they - and the hope they had for a kinder future - were slaughtered. i mean, hell, the musical talks about it! all the time! javert calls them schoolboys, turning is the mothers of paris staring at corpses of boys who could have been their sons, cosette eponine and marius are kids lost in their first loves. idk it seems like such a minor thing but to me it's so core to what makes this story so devastating

#by virtue of our local Les Mis production being the first big musical in my town in 10 years #and me wanting to let everyone who wanted to be part of it Be Part Of It #3/4s of my Amis were under 18 #(several of them were under 14 ^^) #and after weeks of getting pretty numb to the barricade scene while directing the blocking and pacing #let me tell you it absolutely knocked me for six the first time we ran it with injury-reaction noises #We're a small town #there is one kid that screams in our recording who i held as a newborn baby #it haunts me #(he played Bossuet) #Les Miserables #Les Amis

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Just watched a recording of a community theater production of Les Mis. It has taught me three things. Small theaters are great actually, the acting is best when people are having fun, and it’s kinda funny when they stage Javert’s suicide so that he falls from the back of the bridge instead of the front and they put a mattress behind the wall so the actor doesn’t die but when he falls the audience can hear very clearly the sound of him hitting the mattress.

#we spent weeks tryibg to time our Javert's crash mat hit with The Only Big Note That Might Hide It #but the adrenline of the audience actually being there #threw both our Javerts off (of a bridge badumtss) #and so we embrace the necessary evil #of the mat that lets them fly <3 #i miss my show so much

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Thinking about Sweeney Todd's weekend line-up.

#Sutton Foster #Aaron Tveit #Why do i live half a planet away? #forever planning savings-breaking adventures that I'm too grown up to follow through on #sweeney todd broadway #digital art #broadway #musical theatre #cait makes

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Read In Memoriam by Alice Winn today and it has left me with so many feelings, most of them painful, some of them hopeful, all of them aching to draw my new blorbos.

#this story genuinely had me sobbing on places #i couldnt put it down #Ellwood #Gaunt #In Memoriam Book #Alice Winn #In Memoriam Alice Winn #Cait Sketches #Digital Art

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So about five weeks out from opening we had our OG Grantaire experience some Life Stuff that meant they were unable to continue in a role with solos (we kept them on as Mabeuf!) and, seeing as we had already cast everyone else comfortable singing by themself between our dual cast leads, it didn't take too much convincing for me to jump into my favourite character's role.

Grantaire is no where near my range, and I stress-sang this solo about 30 times each night before curtains up, but it's mine and I'm so fond, and I did not at all realise how visible the talk with Enjolras up the back of the stage was but that hair-flip makes me cackle and one day I WILL animate it.

Shout out to this scene being responsible for my mom asking me - after we watched this footage for the first time with the cast - exactly what the relationship between Grantaire and Enjolras was. Such a great conversation that didn't at all have me praying for a localised asteroid touch down.

#Grantaire my trashiest beloved #Please notice the bisexual lighting #It was so very very late at night after so so many hours of programming lighting cues #when I looked up from where I had been trying to emulate a sunset across the back wall #only to realise that my fade from yellow to orange to pink to purple to blue #had just happened to end on the last three at SUCH a splendid moment #Grantaire #Enjorlas #Les Amis de l'ABC #Barricade Boys #Drink With Me #Enj and I had a slightly different bicker every night #My fave was the night he came up and just said “dude what the fuck?” in the most long suffering voice I'd ever heard #Cait Directs #Musical Theatre #Community Theatre #Youtube

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Finale staging from our Les Mis production!

This turned out exactly like the picture that I'd had in my head since before auditions.

#les miserables #les mis #Musical Theatre #Jean Valjean #The Bishop #Fantine #Marius #Cosette #Eponine #Enjolras #Les Amid de l'ABC #Gavroche #literally the whole squad #I miss seeing my cast thrice a week #Cait Directs #Community Theatre #Youtube

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One of those days where I just really needed to draw canon-era Enj with his hair down.

#i used to doodle so much stuff like this and just never finish it enough to post it #but it is 2024 and im just gonna post whatever i feel like lest it perish forgotten in the depths of my procreate app #Enjolras #Canon Era #Les Miserables #Trans Enjolras #Les Amis #Digital Art #Procreate #Cait Makes #also this week can go to heck <3

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Here's a look at the opening of the Cafe scene from our production of Les Mis last year! (a behind-the-scenes of the set up before the curtains open can be found here!)

#I miss my show so much #I am finally at a stage where I can look back at the footage without just weeping at the weird grief of knowing that it's really over #and so I have Many Snippets To Share #ABC Cafe #Les Amis de l'ABC #Les Miserables #Musical Theatre #Community Theatre #Cait Directs Les Mis #Enjolras #Combeferre #Feuilly #Courfeyrac #Grantaire #Youtube

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Thinking about Amis meetings by candlelight and how unfamiliar I am with a light source coming from that direction.

High quality and detail shot below the cut!

Freckly Enjolras my beloved

Tumblr stop compress-blurring every picture I upload to heck challenge 2k24.

#Enjolras #Les Amis #Les Miserables #I cant get this eye right #but i am hoping to stop overthinking every almost finished drawing i have and just #post it anyway! #vest inspired by the floral fabric we found for our local production #cait makes #digital art #canon era

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More Mis pics!

Here is my Prouvaire and Feuilly, in verse one of Drink With Me at one of our final rehearsals.

Fun fact: the wine in our bottles on show nights was made up of various juices (mainly orange and apple/blackcurrant) and food dyes to make it look accurate enough through the semi-see through glass.

On the middle weekend of performances, I (playing Grantaire) took a swig of my drink only to notice a giant blob of teal paste in the neck of my bottle. I had a flash of panic about how R's second verse might lose some impact if his teeth were, you know, bright hecking blue, but I somehow managed to avoid getting any of the paste chunk in my mouth, and we changed to dissolving the paste in water before adding it to the bottles.

#That Time Cait Directed Les Mis #Jehan Prouvaire #Feuilly #Les Amis #Barricade Boys #Drink With Me #Les Miserables #Musical Theatre #Community Theatre #Cait Directs

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Forever torn between not wanting to flood timelines and the impulse to post Every Single One of the legitimately-more-than-1,000 production photos I have from my Les Mis run earlier this year.

Here's a favourite of Gavroche, he looks so small and it breaks my heart, I can still hear the audience gasping as he falls now <3

#Gavroche #My Beloved #Les Miserables #Theatre #Cait Directs #Caits Production Pics

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Astarion was revealing some Very Serious Backstory in the Sunlit Wetlands and I could not stop laughing at the swarm of butterflies fluttering around the screen as he did so.

I am not immune to the sassy vampire spawn.

#Baldurs Gate 3 #Astarion #Certified Disney Vampire Princess #Butterflies #Vampire #BG3 #Digital Art #Procreate #Cait Makes

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Not me cackling to myself while programming the lighting cues alone in an empty theatre at 3am as I realise that the 'fade-to-night' look I'd been going for had resulted in the bi flag being splashed across the back cyc for Grantaire's solo in Drink With Me

The ghost of Victor Hugo moves in mysterious ways.

#screenshot courtesy of the amazing recording that we got to keep as a memento #every day it pains me not to share it #Grantaire is my favourite disaster bi #also my original grantaire dropped out 5 weeks out from opening so this is me! #les miserables #les mis #grantaire #bisexual lighting #bi pride #theatre #i miss this show so much #les amis #drink with me