Noah Kahan Willing and Able as an Elrond and Elros song. Devastating concept.
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Noah Kahan Willing and Able as an Elrond and Elros song. Devastating concept.
Just saw the new (to me) West End cast and Enjoltaire ended me.
R looking back at Enj as he passes him during One Day More and Enj smiling at him??? Enj brushing past R as he then goes in front and R just Staringgggg
FOREHEAD TOUCH! FOREHEAD TOUCH IN DRINK WITH ME!
And then after they hug during Final Battle they hold hands for a bit as they split up ughhhhhhhhh
Notes on Noah Mullins Balladeer
(Plus a couple of extras on the show in general)
For the Pilgrimās Trail David is standing on top of the bonfire and the backdrop is all fiery itās SO cool.
Thereās also some movement now which you see in the rehearsal footage.
Noah does less riffs at the end but they opt up? Extensively? Every time I thought they were done nope another one full rock falsetto at the end my soul ascended my body give me an audio now.
Lights flash off after David grabs Harold and when they come back on heās vanished and Harold is just holding the scarf and itās still messing with my head because where did they go? It was like a one second blackout
The Balladeer now dances a lot. Like all the time. Constantly. Triple pirouette???? In docs????
More choreography in the opening number also no guitar during Song for the Countryside and much more dance
At one point the Balladeer swings off the side of the stage. He also justā¦crouches on things a lot. Heās very feline.
A moment for the larger flower crown oh the whimsy is through the roof
āI just need to not be thisā omggggggggg
Harold and Davidās argument now ends with: āNever try to hit me again i swear to godā āI was trying to hug you dadāā¦yeah
Multiple Davids in One Foot in Front of Another so itās like heās appearing and disappearing very cool. He now has his hood up so the other ensemble members can play him so he can vanish when the lights go down and then reappear on the other side of the stage so itās like Harold is surrounded by these ghosts it was very cool.
In the graduation scene David tries to get Harold to dance with him. He also says āthe rest of my life starts todayā and instead of āof course Iām drunkā he says āeveryoneās drunkā.
I would say David seems not quite ok in that scene but then deteriorates whereas previously he was very obviously not ok even at that point.
Noahās David (separate from the Balladeer) is more subdued (idk if thatās the right word) than Jackās. Davidās still very angry but especially in the final scene with Harold he comes across as someone depressed and struggling but maybe not someone in immediate danger. Noah is quite still where Jack was like pacing and twitchy. I feel like Jackās David was very clearly having a complete nervous breakdown which made it hard for me to understand how Harold hadnāt realised how bad things were. And with Noahās portrayal that made more sense like maybe David is often acting like this so Harold doesnāt realise itās any different this time. Idk tho I absolutely love both versions.
Noahās David feels like heās still thinking clearly whereas Jackās seemed like heād lost his grip on reality a bit.
Backdrop is large and now used to project scenes.
Some larger set pieces added at moments but mostly the same staging as Chichester as far as I can remember.
Main staging change is just the Balladeerās now quite extensive choreo. Noah is a fantastic dancer my goodness I only know them as Orpheus didnāt know they could do that.
The farmerās wifeās song is now different. I think I preferred the first one.
A few dialogue additions to scenes but other than that I think the lyrics were mostly the same. Silver-haired gentleman was definitely different lyrics tho or it might just have been shorter.
I would say the transition between the Balladeer and David is much more visible in this version.
Thereās been some dialogue changes to Harold and Davidās argument and now after the āI donātā¦I canātā¦ā David says āI just need toā¦not be thisā while gesturing to himself and that coming from a neurodivergent actor was like a suckerpunch to the gut and it wrecked me for the rest of the show
Noah Mullins The Pilgrimās Trail made my soul ascend from my body
Finally watching Interview with the Vampire but my overarching thought (beyond just Wow this is So Good) is that Assad Zaman NEEDS to play Saint-Just one day
Oh God how hard is Davidās monologue going to hit delivered by a neurodivergent actor
Noah Mullins Balladeer NOAH MULLINS THERE IS ONE PERSON ON EARTH I BELIEVE IS CAPABLE OF MATCHING JACK WOLFE AND THEY GOT THEM I CANNOT
not a single ounce of exaggeration in me when i say i would do anything for jack wolfe and eva noblezada
The Rings of Power photo where it looks like Elrond is wearing Feanorian heraldry on his breastplate (all credit to Silmarilleanne for spotting it)ā¦Iām dead, deceased
No idea if Iāll ever watch the next season because I donāt want to give Amazon money but that makes this no less momentous for me
Following on from my last post, I think (this is my interpretation) Evaās Sally has an inner coldness and selfishness that leads her to make the choice she does, and it feels like she has lost some of herself or will do in the future. In contrast, Reeveās Emcee seems to be stripping away his ādisguiseā and becoming openly what he always was inside. I did not feel like he lost any of his character, only his freedom to perform.
What I noticed about Reeve Carneyās Emcee is that he very much comes across as a bad person. Heās not as uncanny as some other Emcees, but heās definitely unsettling in a more human way. With some interpretations, their persona and the sleaziness comes across as an act for the club audience, rather than a genuine personality trait. Reeveās Emcee to me seemed to have an undertone of genuine nastiness, even (and maybe especially) when his act is stripped away. There was quite a predatory vibe to his portrayal. His I Donāt Care Much was aggressive, with him literally grabbing Sally by the neck at one point. I would not like to be alone in a room with his Emcee for sure.
Interestingly, Eva Noblezadaās Sally also seemed to have some nastiness to her. Sheās bubbly and pleasant to most other characters, but thereās a coldness and a detachment that keeps her from seeming truly kind.
And I think in both cases these are very interesting choices given the charactersā decision to continue with life in Berlin, follow the role thatās expected of them and turn a blind eye to the atrocities that are being committed.
40th Anniversary Les Mis cast notes
(Disclaimer: this cast is insane. Literally all of them are some of if not my favourite people ever to play these roles. Theyāre incredible and Iām not going to waste space here discussing their incredible-ness itāll just be acting/staging choices I happened to notice)
- lots more audible ad libs than before
- different inflections on lines
- Katie Hall put her whole soul into that performance
- One of the prostitutes ignores the warnings of the others and tries to help Fantine at Javertās entry
- Pre Who Am I Javert grabbed Valjeanās arm, yanked him towards him and for a second I genuinely thought he was going to sniff Valjeanās neck and was likeā¦huh do you two need some time alone
- New Confrontation choreo??? Lots more punches
- Thenardiers start with Thenardier throwing down a chamber pot, M Thenardier then going on about āwhat have you been eatingā him going āwhat have you been cookingā v silly
- Thenardier threw the bottle on a weird angle, ensemble guy had to lunge to catch it
- Marius defending Cosette from Montparnasse whilst being unarmed while Montparnasse has a knife
- Enjoltaire is back. So much tension. For the opera bit R jumps up on the table right in front of E, who then steps aside just before the bow so R doesnāt shove his butt in his face lmao
- Cosette has a pale dusky pink dress for In My Life now and omg she looked like an angel
- Valjean touches Eponineās cheek when he tells her to be careful and she looks so shocked by it
- Grantaire turns away at the first shot when Gavroche is over the barricade, Enjolras then calls for him when Gavroche starts singing again
- Exr briefly held hands after the hug
- Grantaire SCREAMS when Enjolras dies
- Bradley Jaden is so unhinged. He keeps laughing this really insane laugh
- Javert at the barricades now wears a shirt with a v-neck down to basically his stomach like what are you trying to do seduce them?
- Valjean and Javert trying to keep their convo at the barricade quiet
- Javert sobbing as he falls
- Lots of āvive la Franceās
Jack Wolfe has no business crying like that after Doubt Comes In dear GOD
Epic II might be the best vocals Jack Wolfe has ever given Iām SPEECHLESS
Surely Wolfeus wonāt turn around Jack Wolfe would never let us down like thatā¦*cut to Doubt Comes In* *sobbing* Mr Wolfe I trusted you
So interesting that Gabe was an unplanned baby whereas Natalie was planned when it comes to which of them are prioritised (especially by Diana). If Gabe had lived, eventually he wouldāve found out that he was an accident, and perhaps even that Diana had to be persuaded to keep him by Dan. That wouldāve impacted their relationship, and also the way he saw Natalie (if we assume that she did exist in this scenario even though in reality she was a replacement stay with me here) who was planned. We could almost get a reversal of their dynamic in the show where Gabe is the one that feels undervalued. And yet it is his loss, the loss of the child that Diana originally did not want, that breaks her so completely she cannot live her life or love her daughter enough, because she loved him too much to carry on without him.