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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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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.
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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.