in the rain, the pavement shines like silver

p, 30s, reading les mis for my wife sideblog, likes and follows come from edhelharn

[silver-pavement]

l'introduction

hi i'm pan. my wife's favorite book in the entire world is les miserables. i'm embarking on a journey to read the brick for her. there will be liveblogging: #every day i'm learning

my first introduction to les mis was a midi version of on my own that i became deeply obsessed with as a youth in the wilds of the internet. i did absolutely no further research into the musical.

i have, as of starting this blog, seen the 2000 french miniseries and the 2012 musical film. wish me luck!

[sunnfl0w3rr]

Sometimes I think about how Philip Quast originally auditioned for Enjolras but couldn’t hit the right note in Do You Hear the People Sing and got really frustrated and told Schönberg and Mackintosh that if they wanted to know how high he could sing they should’ve just given him scales and turned to leave so viciously that Mackintosh wanted him to play Javert

[grantairesuggestionss]

has someone edited apollo's face onto gru with all the minions as l'amis yet or do i have to do everything around here

"tonight we will steal the moon!" mon ange you are going to dump 12 pounds of sugar in concrete please calm down and stop eating those brownies

[zzalina]

I should be studying

[grantairesuggestionss]

this. this is it.

[silver-pavement]

this senator has spoken for nearly two full pages about how smart he is for not believing in an afterlife, PLEASE SHUT UP SIR

[silver-pavement]

"I'm not in this world to protect my life but to protect souls."

what a BANGER of a quote, thank you charles-françois-bienvenu myriel

[lesmisgayrables]

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I think it’s very important that we all remember just how hilariously disco the Original French Concept orchestration is. I just imagine Enjolras singing this and groovily swaying his head and sexily smirking at the camera. And disco lights, obviously.

[treblemirinlens]

I love the concept album so much you always know Enjolras is somewhere nearby when the disco starts. Every. Single. Time.

[pilferingapples]

Reblogging on Request: DISCO ENJOLRAS.

[idiopathicsmile]

My fave thing about disco Enjolras: guessing they did it that way because, like, so I’ve gathered from meta that the Brick posits him as the priest of the glorious revolutionary tomorrow? And at the time the concept album came about, disco was probably the most futuristic music the composers could imagine. Like his sheer force of personality forces the score into anachronism.

Which kind of suggests that if the concept album had been written today, his every appearance would be intro’d with dubstep:

“LAMARQUE IS DEAD”

WOM WOM W-W-WOMMMMMMMM

The best part is you can do it in any era. In the later 1980’s, it’s like WHY IS THE SCORE SUDDENLY ALL NEW WAVE DANCE POP, OH WAIT PROBABLY ENJOLRAS IS ABOUT TO SING ABOUT THE FUTURE.

In the 1910’s, Enjolras walks on and SURPRISE RAGTIME PIANO SOLO. 

[grantaire-the-drunken-artist]

Just imagine Aaron Tveit strutting on stage while swanky disco/slight jazzy music plays in the background.

[luciphe-r]

excuse moi

[jehans-cactus]

now you’ve heard of Disco Deaky in the Queen fandom, but get ready in the Les Mis fandom because we have

Disco Enjolras

[antique-ro-man]

Disco Enjolras lives on

[aromantic-enjolras]

As your resident concept album obsessed fan, I have been scrolling for a couple of hours because I needed to reblog this.

[transmechanicus]

*holds you in my mouth perfectly safe between my sharp teeth bc i love you*

[cometomecosette]

The first handful of times I saw Les Mis onstage, during the wedding scene, it was standard business for Thénardier to grab Cosette and start dancing with her against her will, which became the direct impetus for Marius to punch him. I assumed the staging had always been that way.

But in my current bootleg watch-through, the first time I've seen it done is in 2001.

I wonder... did they add that detail to the staging to compensate for cutting Marius's earlier lines about Éponine, because Marius's original reason for punching Thénardier lay in those lines?

Unlike in the novel, Marius's only connection to the Thénardiers in the musical seems to be through Éponine: he knows them because he was their daughter's friend. In the original version of the wedding scene, Marius sings about remembering Éponine when he looks at the Thénardiers, that they didn't deserve to have her as their daughter, and that he hopes she's happier now that she's with God (and implicitly, now that she's away from her parents). Then Thénardier responds "So it goes, heaven knows/Life has dealt me some terrible blows," which depending on the actor, either comes across as feigning heartrending grief to milk sympathy from Marius (which doesn't work) or as a coldly indifferent "Yes, yes, such a pity... moving on now..."

Even though we know all of Thénardier's dirty deeds, it can be argued that Marius doesn't know them well enough to warrant punching him to the floor in front of all the wedding guests. Just trying to blackmail him arguably isn't enough. But with the lines about Éponine, it's made clear that Marius knows how shabbily Thénardier treated his daughter, and that Thénardier isn't even mourning her death. So maybe in the original staging before the 2001 cuts, the punch was for Éponine.

But when those lines were cut, the directors may have realized that Marius now had less reason to punch Thénardier, so they added Thénardier's forced dance with Cosette to provoke it.

[claireverlasting]

this sucks so bad i need to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] go join my friends on the barricade

[silver-pavement]

the bishop's middle name is WELCOME???

[anarchical-doubter]

normal day. thinking about how grantaires love is so powerful it overrides every belief he's ever held and gives his cynicism something to hope for and that his love is beautiful and pure and that he finds in enjolras not only something to live for but someone to die for and that while every other Les amis makes a sacrifice they do it because they feel they have to he *gets* to make a sacrifice for enjolras and I love his love

[yourdeargatsby]