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weekend
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...
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...
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Yay for good taste :)
My favorite musical is still the Scarlet Pimpernel, I think.
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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.