weekend

[seldear]

Weekend: not long enough

Spent: hanging around house with housemate's family, writing (about 5,000 words), doing a little chatting, and going to see Les Miserables. I just wish I'd gotten a bit more sleep.

The performance of Les Mis was great! Good strong voices by the cast - too often I've been to stagings where one or two main characters had good voices and too many others were badly inferior. All the mains were great, although Fantine had a bit too much 'sob' in her voice.

They had an unusual way of working the settings though (not necessarily bad) - they had three 'sub-stages' on the stage: with the middle one being the most modifable. It got used, variously, as the setting for the workhouse, the street of prostitutes, Valjean's house, the site of the barricades, the bridge from which Javert throws himself, the sewers, and the church for the wedding.

in fact, the worst bit of the production was the way the dead people could be seen getting up - as in, the lighting wasn't set up to hide them. So we had zombie dead cleaning up the stage behind them, and not even an attempt to disguise them with something else. Disconcerting and distracting.

Otherwise, this weekend, I learned what Hep C does to your liver c/o housemate's mum who was down (for Les Mis and medical conference thingo): *shudders* This is why I didn't do medical.

Presently listening to Russell Watson sing 'Faith of the Heart' which is apparently the theme from 'Enterprise'. And Connor Trineer's guest role in Atlantis has sorta sparked a little interest in the show...

Comments

[snoggingpicard.livejournal.com]

OMG! I freaking love Russell Watson and Les Miserables! You have good taste. ;)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Well, they're not together. But, yes, he has a lovely voice...

[celsitude.livejournal.com]

Ha! I just saw a production of Les Mis in DC and I thought the Fantine was pretty weak here as well. I was less than impressed with the Eponine, too, but the Javert and Val Jean were excellent. I saw it in San Diego and London, too - but the London production was far superior (of course).

Yay for good taste :)

My favorite musical is still the Scarlet Pimpernel, I think.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

To be honest, Fantine had a great voice - I just liked her the least of the cast 'cos of the trembly in her voice.

I've noticed that it's easy to get good Valjean and Javert in a production - Enjolras is usually good, as is Eponine, but it seems more difficult to get a good Marius and Cosette.

[angelsasha.livejournal.com]

*gag* I can't stand that godawful tune! *retch* I've enjoyed Enterprise, on and off, but I have to mute the theme tune. It's vomit-worthy, especially when combined with the horrible American patriotic images in opening credits. Ugh *shudder*

I watched the first couple of series when I was at Uni, but since then I've lost track a bit and I've only seen odd episodes here and there. I'd still recommend you give it a go, just make sure you've got the mute button to hand for during the credits or your brain will rot :D

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

You might like it when Russell Watson sings it. British guy, from Salford in the north-west, untrained singer but does operatic (and everything else) like you wouldn't believe.

Well, I don't know how good the show is...I've got a post from about a year ago where I asked for show episode recs and Enterprise was one of the ones I was curious about. Or was that Andromeda?

Anyway, I recommend Russell Watson singing anything.

[cailetr.livejournal.com]

hey my mom and I were talking about you yesterday! She wants me to ask you a question about SG1, lol. I told her I thought you quit watching it, but I think you know the answer to her question. I don't know peoples names, but she wants to know where McGyver is. I don't even know the actors name, he's just McGyver, or Mac Gyver, or however he spells it. She aparently watched it twice and he wasn't on it, so she's decided he left the show. Aparently she thought him and the girl hooked up and left together, but the girl is still on the show. So do you know if he left for good, or if he left for a short amt of time then came back? She wants to know where he went and why, but I'm no help cuz I've never seen it. And I don't know if she's watching old reruns or new things or what.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

LOL.

No, your mum's watching the recent runs. Season 9 doesn't have Richard Dean Anderson in it (MacGyver). The actor wanted out, so they've sent the character off to DC to be in charge of Homeland Security or something like that.

There were a couple of eps early in this season where he and 'the girl' were gone, and speculation is still fairly rife about whether or not they're together.

[cailetr.livejournal.com]

thanks, I will let her know! She has watched it since the beginning, but not religiously. And aparently she took a long break and was lost when she came back, doh!

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, shows tend to do that when you take a long break. :)

I'd recommend up to the end of Season Eight - if she thinks that Jack (MacGyver) and Sam (the girl) ran off together, she'll like the last episode of Season Eight.

I haven't seen Season Nine and don't have plans to anytime soon.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Yes, well...you only talked about enemas. I didn't actually get images with it like the HepC thing.

*shudders again*