Drive-by Les Miz.

[tenlittlebullets]

Some ADD random fandom for you:

Two New York Times articles on the ill-fated Paris revival, spaced six months apart. Kind of sad, really.
October 30, 1991.
May 16, 1992.

Interview with Herbert Kretzmer published in The Barricade back in 1998. Addresses things like why the lyrics to A Heart Full of Love are so stupid, how Valjean's animosity towards Marius during the barricade scenes got the chop, the mysterious non-rhyming lyric in Castle on a Cloud, and assorted other things. PDF; HTML.

(Side note: it makes me sad that The Barricade was before my time. If anyone has old issues they could send or scan, I would love you forever.)

Karen Elliott is going to be auctioning off small props and memorabilia she's collected in her time in the tour and Broadway ensemble, I assume on ebay. So keep an eye out.

It occurs to me that while I'd love to see I Saw Him Once actually performed, I really don't want to hear what they'd do to the orchestrations. The current string-quartet arrangement on Broadway would ruin it, to say nothing of a subpar Cosette.

Tangentially related, but... the Nomenclature des voies database is down! This makes me unhappy. :(

Comments

[alligatorandme.livejournal.com]

I have a ton of old back issues of the Barricade (not just ones I was in)...it's just a matter of finding them! They have to be in my parents' garage, though, because I know I haven't seen them since the summer of '05, when we redid the floors and ceilings and had to basically move out of our house and move back in one by one.

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

"La Misere", a song of poverty and despair

But why oh why didn't he keep it that way?

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

My mom wouldn't let me subscribe to that. It made me sad at the time. And then when thebarricade.com died I was terribly sad. Oy, I miss ye olde days of fandom.

[dame_grise]

I think I have two issues, one because I have a review in it. It was very sad when Sharon had to stop doing them.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Do you know why she had to stop? Like I said, before my time. ;)

[dame_grise]

Money. More than anything. And the fact that the alumni tracking got to be harder and harder to do.

[brouhaha.livejournal.com]

I loved that interview, thanks!

[lesmisloony.livejournal.com]

Okay, I *just* realised for the first time that "Good Night My Someone" and "Seventy-Six Trombones" were the same melody. Shows how much attention I pay The Music Man...

He described Grantaire as "a man who is not sentimental or easily led." That made me go "..." for a second, but I guess in *some* respects that could be true. My LM expertise is definitely *not* the Barricade Boys. Had the same reaction to his description of Javert, but... whatever.

Re: LM memorabilia... After the original Bway run ended, I was able to buy Nick Wyman's fancy embroidered socks from the Wedding Scene off eBay for eleven dollars. NO ONE understands why I wanted them.

Okay, that's all. Thanks so much for posting that interview!

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

I've got some random issues of the barricade in the stuff I'll be bringing back at Christmas. will make you copies.

And I've emailed Karen - she's not replied yet.