Oh, Les Mis fandom. Even if you're dead, I'll keep kicking you until you at least move.

[tenlittlebullets]

Mmkay. I'm going to be away all weekend, at my cousin's wedding and then in NYC on Sunday. This pretty much marks the end of the weekly Les Mis trips--I might go to Valjean Understudy Week in June, especially if Jeff Kready's on, and there might just possibly be a trip out to Sacramento in the works. Because omg Brad Little as Javert AND Les Mis in the round? I can't miss that. But those are special events. I'm going to try and keep the show from being a regular strain on my bank account until the Philly one opens this time next year.

After that, there is a giant, shiny heap of other LM-fandom things I've been neglecting while devoting all my energy to seeing the show. To-do list includes:

- Raid the UMD College Park library for Révolutions du XIXe siècle, trial records, and other really hardcore nerdy stuff.
- Find a ridiculously hi-res map of pre-Haussmann Paris. Either that or get close-up scans of areas of interest.
- Obtain an extensively annotated Brick. Allem's is good. Anything else that necessitates keeping one bookmark in the novel and a second one in the footnotes also works.
- Finish updating the web site. Holy god, I've had the update mostly complete since December. There's only one more section I need to finish and then I'll be able to upload the whole overhauled thing.
- Stop being a bad mod at lesmiz. Run the caption contest on time. Make discussion posts. Fun things like that.
- Exorcize a few plotbunnies that have been gnawing at me.
- Type up and translate some of the additional material in my french!Brick. Not all of it is directly relevant, but there is some pretty cracked-out fun stuff in there.
- Watch a few of those movie adaptations that Dad got me through Netflix.
- Read more of Hugo's poetry. Not directly related but fun. :) I'm glad I have a bilingual selection of his poems, though, because that man's vocabulary makes me feel like a first-year French student.
- ...speaking of, maybe I should actually, y'know, start taking French again. Um. It occurs to me that reading/translating Hugo with what functionally amounts to two years of French class, four or five years ago, might be an achievement of some sort.

Comments

[prouvairesylvie.livejournal.com]

Hi! I saw Jeff Kready when I saw Les Miz on the 8th, Though physically smaller than wha you'd expect for Valjean, he carried it well acting and vocally. I think my mother-unit fangirls him now because he was from Kansas.
Electro-shocking the Les Mis fandom is fun. Though, a newbie to the internet fandom, I've beeen writing fanfiction, and foisting CD's and books on people since seventh grade. Extreme cases take extreme measures. Good luck in your endeavours, citizen! *saluts*
Now that I'm done making an idiot of myself, I'm SylvieProuvaire1832 on Abaisse, so I don't freak you out with my randomness. *waves*

[prouvairesylvie.livejournal.com]

Meh, my bad, the fourth actually. Don't know why I thought it was the 8th. And of April. How many times did you end up seeing it?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know Kready had been on yet. Alex is like a freaking tank--I've never seen either of the Valjean understudies.

I don't even want to count. Somewhere in the general vicinity of 20.

[alligatorandme.livejournal.com]

Do come out our way if you can! Just FYI, though, Sacramento has stupid streets and is like 500 degrees in the summer. ;-) But there is some good brewery food near the theatre.

[shawk.livejournal.com]

And cheap hotels!

[cosmicautumn.livejournal.com]

If you're going to read poetry, start with Les Contemplations. I think it's his best book of poems. I'm not really a big fan of his really early work or his late work (la fin du satan).