you should NOT be at the club. you should be in the streets, june 5th, 1832, paris france. you should be building a barricade

My boyfriend and I are watching Ratatouille and he made a comment about the complexity of the sewers at the beginning.

So I, a nerd, go "oh boy do I have a book for you!"

Amd he goes "oh? What book goes that in depth about the Parisienne sewers system?"

And my friends, he was shocked at my answer.

From 27/09/22 - their first show together as Valjean and Javert.

What an absolute treat to see these 2010 era fandom faves finally getting to perform their dream roles opposite each other!

@theres-a-lizard-on-the-run ask and ye shall receive

ok but this video Josh posted to his ig is Killing me

Plan A didn’t work. But that doesn’t mean Javert didn’t try several more times.

They have been married now for 20 years and manage a farm near La Roque-Gageac with their adopted daughter Cosette. If Madeleine doesn’t confess soon Javert is going to start to suspect he is not Jean Valjean.

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WOS had the best lede, though: https://www.whatsonstage.com/cardiff-theatre/news/les-miserables-tour-fire-millenium-centre_50601.html

the adaptation we truly deserve

read the whole tread on twitter it’s amazing (x)

Full cast list:

Jean Valjean - Hugh Jackman

Javert - Sam the Eagle

The Bishop - Uncle Deadly

Fantine - Janice

Cosette - Camilla the Chicken

Thénardier - Rizzo the Rat

Mme. Thénardier - Yolanda the Rat

Marius - Gonzo

Enjolras - Kermit the Frog

Éponine - Miss Piggy

Combeferre - Walter

Courfeyrac - Bunson Honeydew

Grantaire - Fozzie Bear

Bahorel - Animal

Jehan - Pepe the Prawn

Gavroche - Beaker

Narrators (“Victor and Hugo”) - Statler and Waldorf

I DREAMED A DREAM // Kanazawa FOI18

The comments on that last d&d comic [x] gave me ideas.

#come on ferre give him a break for his speech #they are all so bad at dice #it’s bossuet’s curse

From this post [x] by @enjolrarses, though I added things.

Why is Cosette the face of the musical, rather than Jean Valjean?

Reasonable question! The musical, even more than the book, is very About Jean Valjean, his journey and his plotline. But the musical isn’t JUST about Valjean; it’s also about Fantine, about Marius, about an uprising, about the Thenardier Family, and so on.  And Cosette is the thread that ties it all together. 

Without Cosette, the story (of the musical) is : 

Valjean redeems himself through his behavior at M-sur-M and (possibly!) his act of sacrifice at the Champmathieu trial. 

Fantine stays in Paris; Valjean never meets her. 

Javert either never tells Valjean about Champmathieu (because he’s not pressing suspicions due to Fantine’s arrest), and Valjean stays as mayor, end of story, Javert either goes on with his life in the service of the now-exonerated (in his mind) Mayor Madeleine,

OR:  Valjean goes to jail (and stays there, without duty to Cosette driving him to find another way) and Javert goes on his way with the satisfaction of a job rightly done. Neither of them ever has to confront the choices and character growth that come their way in the existing story. 

Marius never even considers not being part of the barricade fight; and he dies with everyone else there. *Including* Eponine and Gavroche, who are there for their own reasons. 

 And all of these are complete stories! Every one of these characters serves as the hub of an entire plot, with other characters affected by them and their choices!  

But the only reason they’re part of the SAME story is because of Cosette. Because of Cosette, Fantine goes to Valjean’s factory. Because of Cosette, Valjean finds a way to keep moving ahead after the trial, and eventually goes to Paris. Javert’s suicide, Marius’ survival at the barricade–they happen because Valjean loves Cosette enough to be there (and because Marius loved Cosette enough to consider NOT being there, and send Eponine off with a note–and in the world of the musical, this may be why Eponine’s at the barricade too, but that’s a consideration for another time.) 

Valjean’s line– “It’s the story of those who always loved you”– could stand for the whole musical.   I’ve seen that post saying Marius is only there because Valjean loves Cosette, but really you can track that back–VALJEAN only connects with any of these people because Fantine  loved Cosette.  It’s the story of people who love Cosette,  and how that transforms them and the people they meet.

No, none of this is intentional on Cosette’s part, but hey, that’s part of the point of this story– no one knows what they’re doing, no one’s got a Master Plan, everyone’s just moving forward the best they know how.  What brings people together, through all the confusion, across classes and war and all kinds of social prejudice, is love, and that’s what Cosette does, and what she represents. 

And that’s why Cosette is the face of the musical. 

Also little girls are cuter than old beardy dudes 

Hi my name is Baron Marius Thomas Tel'bon Victor Pontmercy and I have thick and intensely black hair and a high, intelligent forehead that contrasts my sensual smile and passionate flaring nostrils and a lot of people tell me I look like Victor Hugo (the humble author, who is, reluctantly, compelled to speak of himself, has to note here that anyone who does not know who he is should stop reading at this point). I’m directly related to Colonel Baron Georges Pontmercy and that’s great because he was a major fucking hottie. I’m not royalist but my teeth are the whitest in the world. I have small eyes, but a grand gaze. I’m also a law student, and I go to a school called Paris University in France where I’m finishing my studies (I’m seventeen). I’m a Bonapartist democrat (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love family heirlooms and try to encorporate them in my outfits. For example today I was wearing a black shagreen locket with a note from my father in it and a band of crepe on my hat. I was carrying around a hundred calling cards with my name in my pocket. I was walking around Paris. It was a warm day with bees flying around, which I was very happy about. A lot of Republicans stared at me. I put my middle finger at them.

one of the greatest adlibs from les mis bway today