sing with me the songs we knew

[mimesere]

um, other people think Valjean's kind of an annoying tool, right?

...and that Javert is MIGHTY WITH THE AWESOME*?

People Who I Love in Les Miz:
-Javert (so much omg)
-Eponine (even my wacky sang-it-phonetically-in-English Japanese Eponine!)
-Grantaire (I have a rough-voiced OTT American Grantaire who reduces me to *tears* during "Drink With Me")
-Enjolras (dumb! But he believes! And um, I really like "Do You Hear the People Sing" and "Red and Black")
-The rest of the students (see above)
-the Bishop (AWWW BISHOP DUDE!)
-Fantine (dumb! so dumb! but awesome! Also, my CSR has like, the robust Australian Fantine, who sounds like she could break Valjean in half with her pinky even while dying of consumption)

People Who Annoy the Crap Out of Me in Les Miz:
-Valjean (such a tool)
-Cosette (god, SHUT UP)
-Marius (...except during "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" and, because I am not made of stone, he is also not annoying during "A Little Fall of Rain". *wibble*)
-Victor Hugo (because seriously, Victor, did we REALLY need like, a 30 page essay on the evils of Waterloo in the middle of your book?)

This post brought to you by Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel singing "The Confrontation."

and by "awesome," I pretty much mean Interesting and Complex and Sympathetic despite being a complete dick and closeminded and all of that. Still a good guy, though. *loves*

Comments

[syrenssong.livejournal.com]

OOH! I need to hear that version of Confrontation... ::goes to find old copy of Les Mis:: Terrence Mann will have to do for now.

[isabeau.livejournal.com]

I totally <33333 Javert. And it makes me sad that he's the only one that doesn't get to sing in the "yay heaven!" bit at the end. 'Cause, dude, he isn't a bad guy; the only thing he did 'wrong' was not believing Valjean's "hay I'm good now, really", which, y'know, it's not like people try that when they don't actually mean it...

Re ALFoR, that song has been, sadly, kind of ruined for me because the last time I saw Les Miz live? The whole "Eponine, you're hurt, you need some help" etc involved throwing open her trenchcoat (to expose the Lots And Lots Of Ketchup Blood) very flasherishly and overmelodramatically in such a way that it made me want to laugh. Which is kind of not the right mood.

...they did slightly redeem it by the thing -- I don't know if this is in the stage directions, or standard, or just them -- where she's dying and he's all sad and no one else notices for most of the song, just standing around in clumps talking and ... it just made me whimper. In a good way.

I used to have a tape copy of the CSR, but I've lost it :( :( :( I adore the CSR so very much.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

Oh man. That freaking musical is, like, the soundtrack of my whole dumb pathetic not-even-cool-enough-to-be-emo ninth grade year. Valjean is fairly irritating EXCEPT WHEN he is being placed by Liam Neeson who automatically ratchets the awesome up by +1234214213. "A Little Fall of Rain" still makes me weepy. And O HAY, Terrence Mann, aka Original Broadway Javert? Is now the director of musical theater at my alma mater and all my friends there report that he has, like, a cult now. Which I suppose I can't fault him for. Who wouldn't have a cult if they could?

[dizmo]

Javert is my favorite favorite favorite favorite character ever.

He's a bit... rigid, but... It's totally UNDERSTANDABLE. I love him and want to cuddle him. Even if he would probably look at me funny and nudge me away with his nightstick. Yes.

[jain]

Your list of favorite characters is my list of favorite characters. :-) Oh, and I love Gavroche, too. The bit where he meets his younger brothers and doesn't realize who they are but takes care of them anyway just makes my heart melt.

And I nearly threw the book across the room by the end of the Waterloo section, except that Hugo put that guy shouting, "Merde!" at the end, and that, like, two paragraphs was awesome enough that I managed to contain myself. But I still complain about those 30 pages everytime someone starts talking about the "brilliance" of the novel.

[calligrafiti.livejournal.com]

My Javert love is mostly due to my bone-deep love for the bari-bass range of male voices and that's the Javert I heard. Mmmmmmmmmmm, "Stars". Like good chocolate for the ears.

[pun.livejournal.com]

I love, Love, LOVE Javert!! I always use him as an example of my lifetime love of "villains." Love him SO MUCH!

Marius has always been one of my least favorite characters ever. Valjean is fairly annoying, but not as annoying as Marius and Cosette. Seriously!