#thenadier

Not Thénadier calling Valjean "my beauty"..... TWICE.

"This one 's a queer, I might try that too" indeed

Everybody’s

But lock up your valises, Jesus,

who would be interested in a les mis rp

modern au

no plot just for sillies

enjoltaire courferre jbm etc

bc like

i love les mis but im too lazy to write fanfic but i still wanna make storylines 😓

Vorwort: I don't know shit about uniforms & alle Angaben sind wie immer ohne gun

.The 1914 style (????) looking uniforms at Toulon really throw me every time. Side note the hats the students wear do look cheap and weird, whoever posted that on Tumblr was right.. Although I pref Toulon this time tbh it's so full it's like ants or something

.Overall some good ass lyrics that I definitely won't remember god I wish I could buy the lyrics/sheet music etc and analyse them the way I am e.g. allowed to buy hamlet. something from JVj about the Gesetz and weh dem, der einmal fällt or something, can't remember but it was banging

.that being said Bürgermeisterei and Kettchen still make me absolutely furious particularly because I somehow heard "Kätzchen" this time.

. "Was für eine Bande! Schande, wofür opfere ich mich" certified banger for me.

.So many sailors uniforms in leichte Mädels really approve makes you actually think oh yeah this is the docks & I actually believe that for oncd

.Soldier/national guard uniform (I don't think it is but like the colourful blue red stuff throughout incl at the docks and in front of the factory feels v.like.uh state violence / the rich have Staatsgewalt on their side Hmm

.Ich habe ihm tief ins Herz geschaut yeah okay javert damn never heard of playing hard to get huh not to mention later for some reason ich bin da wo auch er sei or whatever is like woww someone has never heard of any key except for being high key.

.Seats absolute dogshit from the view, missed at least half of the stage & loads of the stuff I saw or wrote about last time. if you don't know it I genuinely feel like you can't follow the story because you completely miss i.e. JVJ going to get Marius and fantine dying because it's all to the right of the stage.

.Leg room 10/10 tho TBF and they did cost half as much but I'd be mad if I was seeing it for the first time wow

.Also overall production vibe feels a bit less ? Ott than last time? Fantine not so furious, Cosette less dorky etc. Overall stuff where I'm like ? have they changed that since ast time or was I hallucinating last time or this time or something. Might also just be a product of not being able to see HALF THE STAGE good lord

.I do like this enjolras though I don't really know why?? Very recognisable BC of beard, feels like he's in pretty much every scene

.Everyone seeing at once during morgen schon you can't make out a fucking thing good lord. Felt like they just muted Javert during confrontation which like a choice but at least it meant JVJ understandable and coherent.

.Herr im Haus v much thenadier plus background compared to London it's like thenadier and backing dancers

.Weirdly Javert's old man stage makeup works really well under the regular lights for bows but all the way through the play it (at least for me) doesn't work at all & he just looks like an extremely tired 30 year old

.Thenadiers this time couldn't understand ANYTHING they said in the last bit at the table which is a shame BC it was probably funny but was really like muttering muttering muttering in der Hölle sind noch Plätze frei

.Javert like my main criticism is too young looking and the wigs ain't shit compared to west end which I genuinely find absolutely beautiful c.f. also how obsessed I am with the Blackbeard wig in ofmd & particularly in that scene where he's underwater HOWEVER I will say damn, great stunt work/falls across the stage, both when caught by the students & especially during the confrontation (there was a forward roll???) & ,when he got up it was clear he was supposed to have a shoulder injury whereas I feel like in London it's just like guess what JVJ shoves really hard ? Idk maybe that's unfair.

.It does however bring me to my next point which is this time round I actually really liked the barricade. Seeing it half built in one scene then complete in the next, the way they can use the ends as well BC of the rotating stage, and the fact that at least compared to my memory of London there are loads of women there and the constant passing of the rifles makes it seem more coherent and real somehow and also the actually individual deaths from very obviously different injuries depending on where they were on the barricade is really good I think. Also having the students up top in this bright lighting and all in white shirts and light coloured waistcoats really works, especially w the comparison to empty chairs when they've all got blood on them

.Also having gavroche be the only other one on the barricade moving during little fall of rain when the others are all frozen absolutely brilliant. Really clear that there's a relationship between him and Eponine.

.Overall a few scenes in this where people freeze which I don't really remember in london.I did like the electric guitar bits tbh

.Overall I feel like maybe the sound system in the theatre is just not as good as in London which would make sense I guess bc I don't think they just do musicals (wir sind hier nicht im Opernhaus) because both times the instrumental and vocal sounded really kind of flat and artificial to me even though like this time I could peer into the orchestra and I could see the people playing violin but somehow it still sounded really recorded idk,

.I feel like Javert didn't get beaten up as much this time but might be imagining it. I felt like the fall was better though

.I still miss the clothes/wigs/makeup from London I think it supports the narrative and the character SO WELL and I miss it

. Why the change from möchte to will in "ich bin der Bürgermeister hier und möchte/will es gern noch länger sein" Möchte is definitely what I remember from German recording on Spotify (not the wien one) I find it more believable than "ich will es gerne noch länger sein" BC like he doesn't ??

.I really like the dog eat the dog bit in this production for some reason it stands out more to me than in LDN

.Someone whooped after Javert jumped hahahah like I understand it was a compliment to his performance but wow what a way to say it

[BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE]

added via laptop at home rather than phone en train

.are we in France in this production? Like i don't really care if the intention is to like make it more universal or whatever like I don't think it really works but having just red flags instead of red white blue okay fine, but the huge numbers on chest insteda of fleur-de-lys just strikes me as a hugely dorky move and also VER Y impractical like I know this is not the book but what if he gets recaptured and has another prisoner number WHAT THEN? Are the just going to put 9430 underneath and cross out 24601 ß???

.I'm losing my fucking mind re: the lack of availability for the German song texts being available to buy in any context at all. Like i am being so fr, like trying to piece something together from what i remember last night when almost all results onlien are either shitty machine translations or badly transcribed versions of parts of the lyrics AND and I think im getting somewhere with chatgpt andd then it keeps changing which ahcaracter allegedly sung the lyrics and then cant link a source AND THEN i'm like FUCJ these cant be the actual lyrics must be soem kind of chatgpt transaltion attempt to answer because THE PRONOUNS ARE WRONG. according to fucking chatgpt they are saying "Sie" to each other all the way through the confrontation even tho almost no-one says "Sie" all the way through AND it is very noticable e.g. that in the end when JVJ sets him free that he is STILL saying "ihr" to Javert the whole time when Javert is saying "du" to him and its like HMM MM maybe its ??? important? relevan? the way the characers speak to each otjher? The way Javert calls him by a number and not his name? Anyway in conclusion it just makes me think THE MACHINES ARE MAKING EVEYTHING WORSe and centuries of human creativity and artistic endavous is just getting FUCKING CRUSHED under stupid bastard AI just makign everythign shittier and I hate it.

Addendum now I have marginally recovered from my overwhelming desire to destroy skynet