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

[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.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Dude, I know, Javert totally got shafted for being all, "Hey, you know, the part where you are AN ESCAPED CONVICT WHO HIT ME WITH A PIECE OF CHAIR makes me totally not believe you when you say you're not a criminal. Really."

And then I feel all bad for him, 'cause seriously. He wasn't *that* bad a guy!

When they did the tenth anniversary of Les Miz with the allstar cast, the dude playing Marius (British CR and CSR guy) and Lea Salonga made me cry and cry and cry, so I forgive that song a lot.