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LES MIS ARENA TOUR!
Nathania Ong as Elle Woods gloriously breaking the fourth wall
from last night's 40th anniversary gala show 🎉
cast: patti lupone, carrie hope fletcher, rachelle ann go, frances ruffelle, samantha barks, nathania ong, shan ako, katie hall
genuinely i love her so much
I finally saw Les Miserables live in Milan yesterday so obligatory yap:
Okay first of all: KILLIAN DONNELLY?!?!?!? I was already excited that I was going to see him as Valjean but god that man's voice is just so beautiful. He played a spectacular Valjean, he dominated the stage and the crowd went wild every time he sang. I have no words. Just. What an experience. The whole cast was amazing but jesus, this man could do a one man show of Les mis and id give my first born to see it. Also, he carried around Marius's actor like he weighed nothing, that's so Valjean of him. Also, his soliloquy broke me, how he tried to give back the candlesticks after the bishop gave them to him, how he let the bag fall on the floor and picked it up only later. The emotion he put into his singing constantly brought tears to my eyes. What a voice. Indescribable
JAVERT!!!! Bradley Jaden was amazing. I love how much rage he gave to his character, it felt very true to the novel, on how he's compared to a wolf. In stars he's so devoted but the part that literally shook me was after he let Valjean and Marius go: he literally lost his mind and shouted "WHO IS THIS MAN" with such a wild air I literally gasped. He was unhinged during that song, so outraged and bitter and I loved it. It almost felt like he was killing himself to take Valjean's act of mercy away from him instead of his internal turmoil and honestly? I loved it. He had such a presence on stage it literally felt like he was the law. Also let's be honest, he rocked the coat
I LOVED Channa Hewitt as Fantine, She had such a warm and soft voice it felt like a mother's embrace. I cried 4 times during the show and 2 of those were Fantine's death and Fantine's part during the finale. She was perfect
Nathania Ong as Eponine????? I don't think I've ever heard someone sing her parts as perfectly as her. What a voice. Honestly I think the applauses for her were some of the longest and they were completely deserved. She made me cry. Amazing. Spectacular. I fell a little bit a lot in love. Unfortunately she missed the "He was never mine to lose" line but I think it was because her microphone wasn't connected?? Never mind she was perfect.
I know you all want to know about our boys Enjolras and Grantaire so. There wasn't much enjoltaire going on tbh but I didn't mind, I still think the actors (James D. Gish and Raymond Walsh) were perfect and I love their performance. Enjolras was completely focused on the revolution and keeping the others on track, while Grantaire mainly stuck with Gavroche all throughout. Enjolras's most positive reaction to grantaire was ironically clapping with the others at R's jokes once during Red and Black, but apart from that he was fairly hostile to him. During Drink With Me he tried to stop R from singing and bringing down morale by getting close to him and roughly saying "That's enough!" into the same microphone; after he stopped singing and everyone started moving away Enjolras tried to stop Grantaire or talk to him, he seemed kind of apologetic, but R Simply raised his bottle to him in a mock toast and then turned his back to him and I loved that, I love a bitter and petty Grantaire. Grantaire at the beginning was very amused by the whole situation and the excitement of the others, during red and black and the building of the barricade he kept hyping Gavroche up and parting his shoulder, nudging him towards the others as if it was all a game. When the first shots sounded he seemed to realize the gravity of the situation and started nudging Gavroche away and motioning for him to go away; later when the shooting for the fall of the barricade started sounding he lifted Gavroche in his arms and held him as the others started to fall until only them and Enjolras stood; then Gavroche went limp and R died with him, Enjolras died last. For the rest of the show and for Empty Chairs at Empty Tables Enjolras, Grantaire and Gavroche were on the small balcony/platform over the centre of the stage and to be honest it had a very "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" vibe in my opinion.
One Day More was absurd, it gave me chills all throughout.
When Valjean died and the bishop came in the hugged each other very hard, Valjean basically fell into the bishop's arms and that hit me hard.
Gavroche was so sassy I loved him.
Honestly everyone was perfect I literally have nothing bad to say. I think Enjolras's actor lost controls of his voice on a sillable but who cares, it was all amazing.
I also got merch! (It was all so expensive????? But I couldn't help myself). I got a tote bag with Cosette's famous illustration, a magnet and a brochure with the history of Lea Miserables and information and interviews of the World Tour cast. I also got 2 of the paper bags (they were cute okay) and my mum grabbed a literal handful of the bookmarks they were giving away lmao.
I'm sure I had something else I wanted to say but after these last 3 days my brain is completely scrambled. If any of you were at the show yesterday or are going in these days feel free to hit me up so we can go crazy together lmao
Bye bye natty :(
Hi. Nathania ong eponine
Hello! I'm guessing this is an appreciation prompt? The conciseness of it makes it fun!
SEA Wave article written in 2024, titled: "Nathania Ong becomes first Singaporean actress to play Éponine in ‘Les Misérables’ on the West End"
"Ong joins the long list of theater performers from Southeast Asia who became part of various iterations of Les Misérables, including Lea Salonga, Rachelle Ann Go, Devin Ilaw and more.
“I get full liberty to play around every night and to build this character’s journey—to live her life, to love the people she loves and fight for what she fights for”, Ong stated about her role as Éponine.
Ong also said that she would love to see a “bigger industry” of the theatre scene in Singapore as there is so much potential that just needs to be recognized.
When asked about her experience with racial diversity and representation in the international theatre scene, Ong replied with “I’m quite fortunate because Lea Salonga, who was the first Asian person to play Éponine, showed people that a Southeast Asian actor can perform this role. But I think casting directors still like to play it safe. Many shows have specific roles they like to cast people of colour in.”
“But beyond that, I want to see more Asian actors being cast in roles that aren’t Asian-specific”, Ong added."
On My Own:
One of the reason's i love nathania ong's preformance as eponine so much is brcause you can see how incredibly delighted she is how incredibly happy she is whenever marius speaks to her. You can see hoe in love she is despite loving him on her own. You can see in on my own how shes swept up in loving him then the heartbreak of acknoledging he doesnt love her back. You can see how delighted she is to love him, which really shows throguh her character the line of "to love another person is to see the face of God" and earns her her place leading valjean with fantine at the finale. I love her so much
