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“Les Miserables “: the original, classic Nunn/Caird production
I hoped it wouldn’t happen, though I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner. But it looks like the original production of Les MisĂ©rables in London, as staged in 1985 by Trevor Nunn and John Caird, will finally be retired and replaced by Laurence Connor and James Powell’s 2009 production this year.Â
It won’t be easy to see it go. Nunn and Caird’s masterful staging, John Napier’s outstanding set design, Andreane Neofitou’s iconic costumes and David Hersey’s atmospheric lighting combined in 1985 to create a true masterpiece of musical theatre. The production was created in tandem with the familiar English version of the musical; the show and the staging were mutually made for each other. For twenty-five years, throughout most of the world, that production WAS Les Mis, and as far as I’m concerned it’s never been surpassed.
If we can’t keep the Nunn/Caird staging on the London stage, we can at least remember it and pay tribute to its greatness. I’ve created a tag that revolves around just this: “I love the original Nunn/Caird production.” Below I’ve linked all the posts in this tag: a collection of nostalgic photos and lengthy musings on the costumes, the blocking, and other aspects of the production I love. Throughout the year I’ll be adding new posts to the list and adding the links here. Hopefully, some future stage directors, set and costume designers, etc. will see these posts and look back to the original staging to inspire their Les Mis production instead of blindly copying the Connor/Powell production. But even if they don’t, these photos and ramblings of mine will still pay tribute to a classic and keep its memory alive.
The Palace and Broadway Theatres
The original advertising posters
Two classic Cosette-logo playbills
Past casts I wish I could have seen
Jean Valjean’s costumes
Javert’s costumes
Fantine’s costumes (+ Mme. Thénardier’s and Young Éponine’s)
Marius’s costume
Éponine’s costumes
Enjolras’s red vest
Enjolras’s black vest
Grantaire’s costume
The female leads’ hair
The white light of death
“Lovely Ladies”
“The Runaway Cart”
“Come to Me”/“Confrontation”
Cosette’s stage business during “The Robbery”
Éponine and Montparnasse’s cut exchange in “Attack on Rue Plumet”
Enjolras’s entrance in “One Day More”
Valjean, Cosette and the doll in “One Day More”
Éponine giving Valjean the letter
A defense for Éponine not taking the bullet for Marius
“A Little Fall of Rain”
Enjolras comforting Marius after “A Little Fall of Rain”
Gavroche’s death
The Problem of Javert (the lack of the ethereal white light at his death and his absence in the finale)
“Empty Chairs at Empty Tables”
“Every Day”
Fantine’s hair in the end (a case for keeping it short)
The Finale
thoughts on BBC Les Mis
- Waterloo and the Marius backstory were wonderful to watch
- why didn’t they also get the Digne extras to speak in regional accents? It’s Provence after all.
- the long conversation between Jean Valjean and Myriel is probably a way of getting some Myriel characterisation in there. I can get behind it as a kind of replacement for the chat with G the conventionnel
- there is a moment of Baby Cosette even before the day of the Surprise, it’s when Tholomyes comes to visit. He seems to walk past the cot, which is being watched over by the landlady (isn’t she? I forget her in the book). If I remember correctly, he *completely ignores* Cosette. How awful.
Closer (2004) dir. Mike Nichols
Midnight blue.
The Lion King (1994), dir. Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
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“Promise you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson
The Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, Arthur Edmund Grimshaw, 1895
Louis Hubbard Grimshaw’s Newcastle paintings: Grainger Street (1902) and St. Nicholas Street (1902).
“Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.”
— Pema Chodron
“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”
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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium
(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)
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BBC Announce Casting for New 2018 Les Miserables Adaptation
Catherine Deneuve & Yves Saint Laurent.Â
the ending of the Breakfast Club isn’t cheesy, it’s realistic and brutal
just realised that the only member of the Breakfast Club to refer to “the Breakfast Club” is Brian Johnson in his essay to which none of the others contributed because they were too busy kissing
and Brian was the only one to say he considered the others to be his friends (Claire briefly repeats his words but then says “if we’re friends now, that is” or something like that)
so the sad part of the movie is that it looks like there’s a twist potentially happy ending but actually it’s not because Brian’s left out
the Breakfast Club only really exists in his head and even though by the end it looks like everyone might say hey to each other on the Monday they probably will be too busy in their new couples or with their groups of friends. Claire’s going to rebel against her parents/social circle and hang out with Bender’s freak pals, Alison might pretend to be normal long enough for Andy’s jock friends to think she’s kinda hot, and Brian knows all of this this and he’s wondering whether he’ll be part of the new mixing of people that’s going to happen or will everyone just conclude he’s too awkward
Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
Neil Gaiman (via lesquatrechevrons)