Wendi Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I'm watching the Blu-Ray of the 25th anniversary concert while doing laundry and decluttering the family room today. (I went to see the film of the 25th anniversary concert at a movie theatre a few months ago, and couldn't wait for the Blu-Ray version to come out.) And I'm looking forward to seeing the Broadway touring production when it comes to our area this summer. This will be my third time seeing it. I know for the 25th anniversary, they have made some changes to orchestration, etc. I can't wait to see it. Still deciding if we're going to take ds with us; he's not DYING to see it, and tickets are expensive. But the story is so wonderful, and I'd like him to read the novel sometime in the next couple of years. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diane in CO Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 "Can you hear the people sing..." :D I love Les Miserables and would go if a traveling company came to town to perform it. I saw this at the Dallas summer musical series a LONG time ago (18 years ago?) and truly enjoyed it. Diane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristinaBreece Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I'm watching the Blu-Ray of the 25th anniversary concert while doing laundry and decluttering the family room today. (I went to see the film of the 25th anniversary concert at a movie theatre a few months ago, and couldn't wait for the Blu-Ray version to come out.) And I'm looking forward to seeing the Broadway touring production when it comes to our area this summer. This will be my third time seeing it. I know for the 25th anniversary, they have made some changes to orchestration, etc. I can't wait to see it. Still deciding if we're going to take ds with us; he's not DYING to see it, and tickets are expensive. But the story is so wonderful, and I'd like him to read the novel sometime in the next couple of years. Wendi Take him! I saw it the first time when I was 14, as well as Aida & Phantom on Broadway with a high school orchestra trip (3 shows & the NY Phil--the whole trip cost me $550 after fundraising, best value EVER)! Love, love, love! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I *heart* Les Mis.:001_wub: Other girls wanted to be doctors and teachers when they grew up...I wanted to be Eponine.:001_smile: "On My Own" was my favorite audition song as a teen. I can sing the entire musical from memory...every part. I had a musical buddy in high school and we would call each other push *play* at exactly the same moment - he'd sing all the guy parts, and I'd sing all the girl parts...more than I should share on the internet:blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pqr Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 One of my favorites, though I also love Evita. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samba Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I've seen it 4 times...most recently the 25th anniversary production in Philly. My first time was in NYC! I :001_wub: Les Mis. Carolyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelaNYC Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Les Mis is my favorite musical. Saw it 3x on Broadway. I always wanted to be Eponine, too, lol. The 25th anniversary was just on PBS and as usual I cried when Colm Wilkinson sang Bring Him Home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubfan Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 it and actually said he would spend his own money to go the following night if we let him(we didn't) Where all are they tourning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaffodilDreams Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Huge fan! We watched the anniversary concert production on our local PBS station last night. It was dd's first time to see it. The musical is coming to our area in the fall. Dd wants to go see it. Well, really if she had her way, she'd be in it! I've seen it at the theatre 4 times and each time was like seeing it for the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 it and actually said he would spend his own money to go the following night if we let him(we didn't) Where all are they tourning? Here are the tour dates. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T'smom Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I LOVE Les Mis. And my husband wanted to take me to the show in Detroit- it even coincides with our anniversary! BUT it would require an overnight trip and my 7 month old is NOT sleeping through the night so I can't ask G-ma to keep her overnight yet. I'm really bummed about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubfan Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Also, did they make the parts with the Thernadiers any more raunchy? I would like to take dd(12). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujsky Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 It's my favorite musical :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newlifemom Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 (edited) I *heart* Les Mis.:001_wub: Other girls wanted to be doctors and teachers when they grew up...I wanted to be Eponine.:001_smile: "On My Own" was my favorite audition song as a teen. : Sorry, but I am Eponine. :D "A little fall of rain, could hardly hurt me now." Of course, now I would probably only be cast [if I ever were cast] as the innkeeper's wife. :tongue_smilie: Edited March 12, 2011 by newlifemom had to fix my bolding. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeaganS Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I love it! I saw it on a choir trip to NYC when I was in 7th grade and thought it was amazing. My awesome MIL is taking my husband and me to see it when it comes through our area in 2 months. I'm so excited! The book is one of the only books I've ever cried in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I've been to the musical twice. I have the anniversary concert production on DVD, as well as the CD. I could listen to those songs all day every day. LOVE!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Here are the tour dates. Wendi Ooooh, OOOOOHHH! Playing an hour away in August. Think I must go.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Still deciding if we're going to take ds with us; he's not DYING to see it, and tickets are expensive. But the story is so wonderful, and I'd like him to read the novel sometime in the next couple of years. Wendi I've never seen Le Mis, but we're huge musical theatre fans around here. My daughter has the soundtrack and has made me listen to it a number of times. I'm curious about why you would hesitate to take your son? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mejane Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Love it. My son played one of the students in a local theater production last year, and I saw it about twenty times. I never cried so much in my life. Gawd, it's so sad. :crying: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Love, love, love Les Mis. It's actually going to be in Nashville in May! Must. tell. DH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Huge fan, tho I've only seen the anniversary shows on PBS--watched the 25th anni show just a couple of hours ago! I really like the first Jean guy better than the one in the 25th--actually all the cast in the, what was it, 10th? anni show. Today my son asked if I was crying during Bring Him Home. Oh yeah, I was. He doesn't know I sang that song when he was in treatment and about cried out all my tears every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debbie in OR Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 It was the first musical I had ever seen live (in Portland). It was beautiful...I wept through it (and I am neither very emotive or sentimental). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 I've never seen Le Mis, but we're huge musical theatre fans around here. My daughter has the soundtrack and has made me listen to it a number of times. I'm curious about why you would hesitate to take your son? Partly because the tickets are expensive! And partly because of some of the content ("Lovely Ladies", "Master of the House", etc.). Still mulling it over. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaissezFaire Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) Huge, HUGE fan here. Saw it in Los Angeles and it's coming back for one month this summer! I am so excited. I know the entire thing by heart as do my older girls. I also wept through it and I never weep over plays or movies. Edited March 13, 2011 by LaissezFaire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 LOVE IT! I've seen in from the audience 8 times (in various cities) and worked as a dresser in the touring production when I was in college. They came to the town where I went to college and needed 2 extra dressers (they had 2 who were sick) and contacted the theatre department. I was a theatrical design major and costume shop supervisor (in my senior year), so I JUMPED at the opportunity. A friend of mine (who also worked in the costume shop) took the other position and we worked 16 shows. It was sooooo much work, but we got to hear the music every night (and see a lot of the show from backstage) AND got paid for it. I have the music on my ipod and Indy loves to listen to it. I don't know why they cut some of the songs from the American production though. Sadness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Dh got me tickets, and we took our 14 yo. "Let Him Live" seemed SO different a song, as a parent, than it did as a childless, unmarried 23 yo. I cried so hard...it was embarrassing. Maybe because my ds has been away for 6 months now, I don't know. The biggest difference in the show itself was how they staged Javert's suicide-it was absolutely stunning the first time I saw it, also because I did not know the plot and it was unexpected, and this time, it was more "special effects"-cool, but not quite the same impact, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeBookBread Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 SO FUNNY you should post this. I just turned on the TV this morning (staying home from church, obviously) and the anniversary Les Miz special was playing on PBS! SO WONDERFUL! DH and I saw it on stage in London's West End in 1999 when it was performed by the RST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I went to see it twice in LA live. For a few years the Ahmanson and Taper productions offered our school's staff $10 Sunday afternoon matinee tickets. I got all that I could! At that time they were $60-$80 tickets. Loved it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary in VA Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 LOVE LE MIS!!!!! Saw it first at the Kennedy Center in 1988 as a newly wed. Both my dh and I were sniffing at the end - "To love another person is to see the face of God!" Got the original sound track and know the whole thing. Saw it again in 1990 as a new mom, cried more. Bought the 10th anniversary video. Saw a tour company in 1998 and loved it even more. Saw a student production in 2007 in the round and was moved even more, something about being so close to the cast. I went home and started reading the book, but could only make it to the part where Fantine sells her front teeth :crying: It was soooo sad! Just saw the 25th Anniversary Concert on PBS last weekend and my 16 yo dd watched with me. Every time I see it I find more to move me. The contrast of grace in Jean Valjean and legalism in Javert is so stark. Just found out it is coming to the Kennedy Center in the fall. We're there!!! If you want your ds to see it, why don't you discuss the story (I'd suggest read, but it's a whopper!) beforehand and put it in context, listen to the soundtrack and then see it. It is such an amazing story and musical. The older I get the more meaningful it is to me. I find I am growing into it. Mary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freethinkermama Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I adore it! I've seen it twice, and my husband once. We're taking our three to see it in May. They can sing any number of the songs, and the 6-year-old calls it "Jean ValJean" I feel really lucky to be able to find "cheapish" seats through the business my husband works for. We save up for big things like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freethinkermama Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Love it. My son played one of the students in a local theater production last year, and I saw it about twenty times. I never cried so much in my life. Gawd, it's so sad. :crying: :iagree: I choke up within the first 8 bars every time! Just remembering how I felt the first time the stage lights started to rise the first time I saw it gives me chills! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMomof4 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 LOVE IT! I've seen in from the audience 8 times (in various cities) and worked as a dresser in the touring production when I was in college. They came to the town where I went to college and needed 2 extra dressers (they had 2 who were sick) and contacted the theatre department. I was a theatrical design major and costume shop supervisor (in my senior year), so I JUMPED at the opportunity. A friend of mine (who also worked in the costume shop) took the other position and we worked 16 shows. It was sooooo much work, but we got to hear the music every night (and see a lot of the show from backstage) AND got paid for it. I have the music on my ipod and Indy loves to listen to it. I don't know why they cut some of the songs from the American production though. Sadness. I did the same thing! DH and I both worked backstage at many, many shows, but Les Mis was definitely my favorite. The guys I dressed that week were fantastic as well - they gave dh and I comp tickets to go actually see the production in San Antonio at the Majestic (we had family there). That is probably one of my favorite memories. ETA: The song "Bring Him Home" does me in though. I cannot listen to it without bawling like a baby. In fact, I'm tearing up just thinking about it. Too, too close to home sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabrizia Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Love it here too. I've seen it 5 times I think, once in London, twice in DC, twice in Atlanta. I missed it when it was in Baltimore 2 weeks ago, because of how pregnant I am. I am debating seeing it when it comes to DC again in October, but since we are planning on going to Wicked in August, while it is in DC, I may have to skip Les Miserables, since tickets are so expensive for good seats and DH and I like good seats when we go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue G in PA Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 My fave! Saw it live in London when I was in college studying abroad. Excellent. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Sorry, but I am Eponine. :D "A little fall of rain, could hardly hurt me now." Of course, now I would probably only be cast [if I ever were cast] as the innkeeper's wife. :tongue_smilie: :tongue_smilie: and :lol::lol::lol: "I used to dream that I would meet a prince...." (That would be a fun part to play. It might give my dh a complex though.:lol:) Now, I'm looking at ticket prices in my area...you guys are a bad influence.:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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