notes from the closing show of the les mis us national tour:
june 28, 2026 citizens opera house, boston ma
- First off, everyone was giving their ALL, the show was fun the last two times i saw it, but the energy was INSANE tonight
- Big round of applause for the outfit change into at the end of the day
- Given it was the last night, performers were less concerned with preserving their voices so they were holding out notes for longer an singing louder, gold star goes to the fantine actress (Lindsay Heather Pearce), who held out the high note in i dreamed a dream in a way i didn’t even know was possible
- A solid 45 seconds of STRONG applause for stars (also bonus shout out to Hayden Tee for going on insta a few days ago and saying he’s been playing Javert as gay and in love with Valjean, my king it showed TRUST)
- After every episode one of gavroche’s (Rocco Van Auken) little solos he got a full audience applause, even if the timing wasn’t right, he was ADORABLE
- during red and black, grantaire’s actor (Kyle Adams) was really big on blowing kisses to people, mainly Enjolras (Daniel Gerard Bittner) this continued through the rest of the performance)
- eponine’s actress (Jaedynn Latter) cried during on my own, i think it was genuine
- When eponine died and marius’s (Peter Neureuther) microphone turned off he said “eponine? eponine? i’m sorry, i’m sorry” and began to rock her back and forth, he was handed her hat by gavroche and kept it in his belt
- Standing ovation for nick cartell after bring him home
- The kid playing gavroche was less then half the height of grantaire (grantaire’s actor must be at LEAST 6’5, taller than enj too)
- Blonde, long hared grantaire, a concept im on board with
- Brown ponytail enjolras (pretty sure that was his actual hair)
- During drink with me, after grantaire’s solo, rather tha th usual hug or tender moment, grantaire and enjolras get in an off-microphone verbal fight
- After Gavroche dies, Grantaire spends most of the gun fight either sitting next to Gavroche in despair or looking up at the barricade unsure what to do
- Enjolras eventually came down and met him in a small intimate conversation, they were low to the floor and either their heads together Enjolras kissed the top of Grantaire’s head (i also went to the june 18th performance and there enj held their foreheads together so i think this was a final night special thing)
- Grantaire was the last person to die (i think this is normal?), he took no interest in the barricade itself until enjolras was shot and tumbled over
- When the show ended, cartell had a speech printed out and invited the backstage crew onstage, the speech included the statistic of almost 25k character deaths on stage during the tour’s run
- orchestra gave them a playout
congratulations to the cast and crew and what a fantastic finish to the tour!
dededos
germansingergirl
turnnoffyourmind
prguitarman
annaxmalina
theartofmadeline
tangentwithtanner
ellievsbear
