(Not so) Ancient Lesbos

Hello all. I don’t really know how to go about telling you what’s really going on but I will try my best to explain. You may not be able to help financially but spreading the word would. 

I am in need of assistance. I have a dental surgery that I have to get done. There are no if, ands, or buts about it. My insurance will be up around the middle of December before my semester ends. I have this surgery planned on Thanksgiving week because it’s the only week I will have before the final week of class and Finals week and my insurance will be dissolved by then. I can’t get my own insurance because I’m still covered as a dependant on my parents. My mother can’t afford to keep me on her insurance so she’s not renewing this month. Every time I try to find an alternative, I get turned away with the phrase “your parents make too much money.” Even so, even if I did try to get my own affordable insurance, there are still fees I can’t pay so it wouldn’t really help in the end if I can’t use it.

I have gone to my school and multiple people here and asked for assistance because they have a program for students that have no financial support, no more financial aid loans to use, no nothing and they turned me away at the door. They expect me to be able to pay it on my own because I take loans to pau for classes and I don’t even have money for food. I don’t have a job, no, and I’ve been trying desperately to find one on campus that would work with my schedule but I’ve been turned down. I don’t have a bank account so I can’t make a gofundme but if anyone is able to donate to my ko-fi or paypal, I will do something for you in return. Yes, I’m open for commissions! I will also show proof of receipt if I must to show you that this is where the money is going. 

Why is this so important? If I am to not go through with this surgery, I will end up damaging the nerves in my face. This means I won’t have any sensation in my cheeks, gums, tongue, or lips for the rest of my life on top of having to get many teeth removed.  

ko-fi/kabutakitsune paypal.me/melm0nster

bonus:

From a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:

1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.

2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.

4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.

12. If this message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.

He didn’t! The term he used in the original French was ‘laid’ which translates to either ugly or inappropriate.

The subsequent anecdote was about a lady getting offended by his ‘laidness’ and saying he’s impossible.

So, she either declared his face was impossible or she declared his behavior was impossible.

I tend to go for the latter. C:

Now this doesn’t necessarily mean that he is conventionally attractive, but I just REALLY don’t think that ‘ugly’ was what Victor Hugo was going for!!!!

John Mulaney: Born in 1982, so we are talking about 1988-1992, if we broaden the ages a bit

Les Mis had three national touring companies in the US. From Wiki:

“The First National Tour opened at Boston’s Shubert Theatre on 12 December 1987, and continued to play major cities until late 1991.

The Second National Tour (called “The Fantine Company”) opened at Los Angeles’ Shubert Theatre on 1 June 1988. The production played for fourteen months then transferred to San Francisco’s Curran Theatre where it enjoyed a similar run.

The Third National Tour of Les Misérables (called “The Marius Company”) was one of the longest running American touring musical productions. Opening on 28 November 1988, at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in Florida, and closing on 23 July 2006, at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri,[58] the tour ran for seventeen years and 7,061 performances. The tour played in 145 cities in 43 states. 

Sam’s Broadway page gives us some, but not all, of the necessary information.

Great, because we know the Second National Tour didn’t stop in Chicago already.

From this article, published March 30, 1988:

Sam B. Riegel, an animated, dark-eyed 11-year-old from Arlington, will play alternate for Gavroche. He will share the role with an out-of-town actor in the limited Washington run that opens at the Eisenhower Theater July 5, according to a spokesman for the production.

Tour dates for the first national tour:

It stopped in Chicago March 18-September 2, 1989, as well as March 16-September 29, 1991. I would say we are looking probably at the 1989 tour stop.

The third national tour is where it gets interesting. The opening night credits include:

They don’t do a single performance in Chicago. Therefore we know that the actor who understudied Gavroche, also the kid John Mulaney wanted to kill, was in the First National Tour.

However, we know that only the originating actors are credited, and we still don’t know when Sam switched from the Third to the First National Tour. 

There are a few sources that help us, however:

We can gather that Sam and Eden only were with the Third National Tour for 4 months. Eden is credited as the Alternate to Cosette and Eponine in the actual Broadway production, whereas Sam:

DEFINITELY REPLACED THE GAVROCHE ALTERNATE IN THE FIRST NATIONAL TOUR! The only thing to do now is to figure out the timeline. If they in fact only performed with the Third National Tour for 4 months, then they would have been free starting October 1988 at the earliest. At that point, the First National Tour was just starting its performances in Philadelphia, the stop right before Chicago. 

I couldn’t find a cast list for the Chicago 1989 performances, so I looked for the surrounding performances of the Forrest Theater in Philadelphia and the Fisher Theater in Detroit. The only thing I can find is that Eden, Sam’s sister, was still with Les Miserables in 1990. However, I can’t find anything about Sam specifically! Please let me know if you can!

My attempt of a Villain!Zawa design (commissioned by @chaotic-genius)

His name is Takami Keigo ( 鷹見 啓悟)

Takami: 鷹 Hawk 見 see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible

Keigo: 啓 Disclose, open, say (part of compounds: enlightenment, development, edification, public awareness, illumination, education, inspiration) 悟 enlightenment, perceive, discern, realize, understand (part of compounds: wisdom, understanding, enlightenment)