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

[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]

He's obviously come a long way since Critters. XD

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

uh. I get Terrance Stamp and Terrence Mann confused a lot.

But he is still Bob! On Dresden Files and also the Beast in Beauty and the Beast!

And now I totally have an image of a singing General Zod and it is pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.