#michael mccarthy

Electric guitar in the prologue YAY

Most of the convicts have ponytails (possibly all; I couldn’t see)

Leyton’s hair is shoulder-length and loose, and his beard is short. His t-shirt is grey with 24601 across the chest

McCarthy puts his baton under Leyton’s face but doesn’t use it to pull Leyton towards him. They maintain a respectful and disappointing distance from each other. McCarthy hands Leyton the yellow paper like a normal human being

There’s a lot more music between "What this new world will do for me" and "You’ll have to go"

All the peasants are wearing red shirts lmao

Short bishop which I now remember is brick-accurate and wow Earl is not bishop-shaped

Leyton grabs the bread from Magloire, scaring her, and Baptistine puts her hand on Magloire’s shoulder to comfort her for like a solid five seconds …

Leyton sounds like he’s doing a Colm Wilkinson impression, especially his vowels

Maglistine walk offstage holding hands

Leyton’s voice is quite light on "Flight"

Dogs out (Bishop)

One of the officers looks so excited when the bishop says "I commend you for your duty" bottom behaviour

Bishop puts the silver into the bag, raises Leyton on "raise", holds his last note for quite a while

Wow this song is going quickly

"That man" (anyone know when they changed that? Certainly by the 25th anniversary)

Leyton sways his shoulders a lot. He kneels at "bread" and rises at "I am reaching"

I think the yellow paper is yellower than it is in the West End Revival

Song ran for 3:05 (OLC is 3:18, 2010 is 3:02)

Intro to At the End of the Day was longer

At least most of the male ensemble have ponytails here too

Oh wait no it’s still the boring black coat not the fun green one (mayor costume)

Ampil has the softest, prettiest smile between the intro and first proper verse of I Dreamed A Dream

Sad, lost, and upset, doesn’t quite make it to angry

Imagine my disappointment when the Lovely Ladies sailors didn’t hump each other

I prefer when the "God I’m weary" etc lines stay high, as was still the case when this performance was recorded. Sounds more like they’re forcing it to be happy and also just makes the music a little less repetitive

"I don’t want you" delivered very weakly, more like 'please no' than 'fuck off'

No "It’s the same with a tart" etc lines. Fuck I did track the progression of those lines at some point where did I put that

McCarthy’s ponytail is curled in a spiral

Longer Runaway Cart music

Leyton checks the ropes on the cart and then uses them to lift it. Bro what

No "Monsieur le Maire" as McCarthy leaves

Why is Leyton’s wig so flat. Sad times

The indistinct grey rectangle brand …

Good dying woman make-up. Pale lips, huge eye bags, gaunt cheeks

Dies on "wake"

I still don’t like the Javert opt-up in Confrontation. Even if it’s probably the official version now. Not doing it is possibly Earl’s only valid singing choice ever

Leyton sings "within my ca-y-are"

Male ensemble still have ponytails in Master of the House

At the line "When it comes to fixing prices", Tate turns away from the audience to piss into the bottle

After Cosette introduces herself, Leyton says "Cosette, that’s a beautiful name"

Ensemble walk behind them and one of the men says "Merry Christmas" to another ensemble member

When Leyton picks Cosette up after they leave the Thénardiers, he holds her in one arm and Catherine in the other for their waltz Second prostitute punched by pimp

"It’ll come" repeated until "See our children fed" (by 25th anniversary it stops when the students start)

Blond Marius??? Brunette Enjolras???

Montparnasse tries to feel up Eponine; she shoves him off disgustedly

Secombe has a bandage around her arm that she goes to show Leyton, then Tate says "Here’s a child" and she turns the bandage into the baby

Tate goes to grab Leyton’s arm; Leyton grabs his arm instead and twists it

Good silence before McCarthy’s lines

Tate has a dangly earring

GUITAR STARSSSSS

That’s some insane under eyeliner

Drooled. Big fat drop of saliva rolled down his face

Loved the orchestration, voice was fine, got nothing from McCarthy’s acting. He was pretty much just standing still until the kneeling and the baton raise

At the end of Do You Hear the People Sing, Ragavelas comes up to Lee and points him which direction to go in. He runs offstage then comes back to bring her with him

Annoyed Cosette :) I like Griffiths

When Lee first climbs over the wall and approaches, Griffiths looks shocked but not scared, and they both take a few steps back. Lee approaches again, she backs away again. He goes to climb back over the wall and she either physically tugs him down or gestures at him to come down; I couldn’t tell. She turns away from him with an excited sort of WHAT DID I JUST DO look

Griffiths is adorable

That was a lower-pitched scream from Ragavelas. She was a little inert in the Attack on Rue Plumet scene

Griffiths is comforting Leyton but also very much trying to tell him what to do