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. ;)

[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.

[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

[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.