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It’s really impressive that they managed to squeeze three performances into a single day, and the entire cast still gave their all in every show.

I’m quite upset that the typhoon caused one performance to be cancelled. I mean, there were only four performances in total, and we lost one because of the stupid typhoon. Many musical theatre fans also couldn’t make it because of the postponement and the cancellation.

Seeing the show live is so different from watching the pro-shot. The lyrics, the dialogue, the melodies, and the choreography are all so beautiful and captivating. They reminded me that musicals are meant to be experienced in the moment.

The most memorable scene for me was when Robert proposed to Amy. He sang part of “Marry Me a Little” before Amy said that famous line. I don’t know why this production made that choice, but it deeply moved me. I cried when I heard Robert say, “Marry me,” while everyone else was laughing at the sudden and hilarious proposal. Then I cried even harder when I heard that musical arrangement.

To me, Robert could sense Amy’s anxiety and was trying to reach out to her. He was asking his friend to run away from the pressure of the outside world with him. But Amy wasn’t like him. He mistakenly believed that she felt the same way he did. I could really feel that sense of loss when you realize that other people—especially your friends—don’t see the world the way you do.

At first, I just wanted to draw them cuddling like two puppies. But then I realized it fit one of the prompts: “maybe in another life.”

The combined lyric is actually a beautiful mistake made by one of my favorite Javerts, Jeremy Secomb. I heard that during one of his Javert’s suicide scene, he accidentally began singing the final lines of Valjean’s soliloquy before correcting himself in the last two words.

The result was “Another story must go on,” a combination of Valjean’s “Another story must begin” and Javert’s “There is no way to go on.”

I think this beautiful mistake suits Valvert perfectly. Not only does it combine both of their lines, it also captures the story they should have had. They don’t need a new beginning—they need another story, one that can continue where theirs ended and finally mend the scars they left on each other.