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tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-03-16 09:48 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-03-16 09:48 pm
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malade not-so-imaginaire
So it's official, I'm sick. I haven't actually been to the doctor about it, but I've had a persistent sore throat for the past two days, my body temperature regulation is shot, and I'm really tired.
What, given all this, is the advisable thing to do?
Yes, that's right, see Les Mis again tomorrow! I even got a box seat. :D (I'm just popping up for the matinee. I'll actually get home at a decent hour this time since I'm not seeing the evening show, so I might not even spend all of Sunday sleeping!)
I felt like I was coming back to see the show again after a few months to find that a bunch of little things have changed; I know it's only been a couple of weeks, but I guess after Lea joined the cast things got shaken up and fell back down in a different order. There were a couple things that were actually pretty noticeable--wtf was Brujon doing in the sewers with Thénardier?--but most of it was little changes in acting. Aaron especially; I don't know if he was having an off night or what, but he seemed to have some sort of aversion to coming in on-beat, and he and Drew ignored each other as much as they possibly could with the blocking they've set up. Also, I am really not keen on the laughing-at-Marius thing in the café. Bah. The bulk of his interpretation is still there and still fantastic, but something just fell flat last night.
Around my fourth or fifth time seeing the tour, I stopped paying too much attention to any principals I hadn't seen before and started playing spot-the-barricade-boy, and I'm at about that point with the revival too. So I got to snicker over things like Nehal the Perpetual Policeman--the boy's a prison guard in the prologue, one of the constables who drag Valjean back to the bishop (he was making really funny "what? what are you smoking?" faces at Chip when he tells them to let Valjean go), one of the constables in Fantine's arrest, and possibly one of the guards at the trial. And Dan the Fastidious Traveler in Master of the House--and Jenny hitting on him. Hee.
Lea was amazing, as expected. Owned the role as if it were written for her. I especially liked Come to Me; she looked very, very sick and delirious. There's really not much else to say; she's just good.
I also saw Megan McGinnis as Eponine. She's tiny, cute, delicate-looking, and has a very clear soprano voice; it changed the dynamics of the love triangle to have the actresses playing Cosette and Eponine seem so similar. Actually, I think Ali's Cosette was spunkier than Megan's Eponine. XD
New boy on as Gavroche, Zach Rand--first performance I think. He's not as screamy as the other two, yay! And he actually, y'know, died during Ten Little Bullets instead of just flopping over.
More musical chairs with the ensemble roles; Justin's back on as Joly, Anderson Davis is bringing his pretteh to the role of Montparnasse, and J.D. Goldblatt has either left or is on vacation. He wasn't in the playbill. Oh, and Drew is charitably spreading his gay around the ensemble; he humped Jeff Kready instead of Nehal this time.
I didn't stick around long at the stage door. It was cold and rainy and I didn't have a coat and I didn't want to give anyone in the cast my flu, and everyone seemed pretty eager to get home anyway. Fucking miserable weather.
What, given all this, is the advisable thing to do?
Yes, that's right, see Les Mis again tomorrow! I even got a box seat. :D (I'm just popping up for the matinee. I'll actually get home at a decent hour this time since I'm not seeing the evening show, so I might not even spend all of Sunday sleeping!)
I felt like I was coming back to see the show again after a few months to find that a bunch of little things have changed; I know it's only been a couple of weeks, but I guess after Lea joined the cast things got shaken up and fell back down in a different order. There were a couple things that were actually pretty noticeable--wtf was Brujon doing in the sewers with Thénardier?--but most of it was little changes in acting. Aaron especially; I don't know if he was having an off night or what, but he seemed to have some sort of aversion to coming in on-beat, and he and Drew ignored each other as much as they possibly could with the blocking they've set up. Also, I am really not keen on the laughing-at-Marius thing in the café. Bah. The bulk of his interpretation is still there and still fantastic, but something just fell flat last night.
Around my fourth or fifth time seeing the tour, I stopped paying too much attention to any principals I hadn't seen before and started playing spot-the-barricade-boy, and I'm at about that point with the revival too. So I got to snicker over things like Nehal the Perpetual Policeman--the boy's a prison guard in the prologue, one of the constables who drag Valjean back to the bishop (he was making really funny "what? what are you smoking?" faces at Chip when he tells them to let Valjean go), one of the constables in Fantine's arrest, and possibly one of the guards at the trial. And Dan the Fastidious Traveler in Master of the House--and Jenny hitting on him. Hee.
Lea was amazing, as expected. Owned the role as if it were written for her. I especially liked Come to Me; she looked very, very sick and delirious. There's really not much else to say; she's just good.
I also saw Megan McGinnis as Eponine. She's tiny, cute, delicate-looking, and has a very clear soprano voice; it changed the dynamics of the love triangle to have the actresses playing Cosette and Eponine seem so similar. Actually, I think Ali's Cosette was spunkier than Megan's Eponine. XD
New boy on as Gavroche, Zach Rand--first performance I think. He's not as screamy as the other two, yay! And he actually, y'know, died during Ten Little Bullets instead of just flopping over.
More musical chairs with the ensemble roles; Justin's back on as Joly, Anderson Davis is bringing his pretteh to the role of Montparnasse, and J.D. Goldblatt has either left or is on vacation. He wasn't in the playbill. Oh, and Drew is charitably spreading his gay around the ensemble; he humped Jeff Kready instead of Nehal this time.
I didn't stick around long at the stage door. It was cold and rainy and I didn't have a coat and I didn't want to give anyone in the cast my flu, and everyone seemed pretty eager to get home anyway. Fucking miserable weather.