Ahh. Wow this Eponine is so different than other ones I've seen. She is so much more like the one in the brick! A lot of times Eponine is played like the female hero figure and given a really sympathetic edge along with making her similar to a perfect personna but I like this one, she seems like who she was in the book. A little crazy, flirty but tough as well Over all i think Celia did amazing!
Norm Lewis is my second-favorite Javert ever, second only to Quast. Adam Jacobs is the new Michael Ball. He's amazing. And Celia is a perfect almostHugocrazy Eponine. Awesome.
@SailorYavin Cool. Norm Lewis reprised his role of Javert in the London production as well as the 25th anniversary concert at the O2. Got the latter on DVD almost a few months back.
It's supposed to be scary. The director of the revival wanted to make Eponine more creepy and desperate, and Celia Keenan Bolger acts it perfectly. If you watch Celia's On My Own, it is a gem because of the acting work in it. They also went away from the traditional 'cute' Eponine which was a very wonderful and welcome change. For me, at least.
I would have so loved to see this cast live!! Celia Keenan-Bolger is one of my favorite Eponines, and I adore Norm Lewis and Adam Jacobs, and I've been a huge fan of Drew Sarich since I heard him in the German version of "Hunchback of Notre Dame." Everyone else seems fantastic too! Thanks for sharing :)
I read that when he was first cast on Broadway, he played Grantaire and was the understudy for every other male lead. So he's played of the male roles at least once. Very talented man!
OMG! I love les mis! I just saw it today at the broadhurst theater in NY for the second time. Adam Jacobs(Marius) is GORGEOUS and he has such a great voice. They all have great voices. Im definately going to see it again.
I think it just shows how uninhibited she is. She's so outside the bounds of "normal" that she even sprawls out on her back in the middle of the street when she wants to.
If you want to talk about little things, um during In My Life, when Valjean enters the gate, Montparnasse is lurking in the back of the stage. Thus he opens the line in the Attack on Rue Plumet "This is his liar, I've seen the old fox around..."
Interesting combination for your Javert. Anyway, reading the book helps bring out the character a lot. That's the problem with Hugo's writing. These characters are real with the same thoughts and feelings as us. It makes for an incredible read but also makes it hard to cover them due to the many character attributes (but then it is always interesting to see the various interpretations people use)
i love this song and the gavroche and enjorlas and evryone... Les misreables is great. i've been in love with it since the first page two years ago when i was ten... where does time go?
Too bad no one ever caught Celia during the scene where Javert is talking to the Thenardiers after Valjean ran away. Adam, who is looking for Valjean and Cosette, looks up to Celia and asks if she saw where they went, and she points in the opposite direction of where they ran. It's awesome. I love the little things Celia did with the character.
I had a bit of difficulty with that too. Javert is the son of a gypsy and a galley slave (convict) so it's possible that he was black, can't remember how he was described. However I'd been so used to caucasian Javerts that it was a bit odd to see Norm playing him (not that I'm racist, I just like the characters to be correct i.e. Fantine was supposed to have long beautiful blonde hair). However, Norm is awesome in this part and I'm glad they chose him for this part.
It's on the same page! On the same paragraph, even. Mine's the Norman Denny translation, Part One/V/5 page 165, "Locks of hair concealing the forehead and falling over the eyebrows". The sideburns was the first sentence of this paragraph, and the bangs was the last.
I like the way Marius and Enjolras seems so powerful in here, looking down (literally) at the streets, acting as they are already seen as the gods who will make it better. Drew Sarich looks georgeous fully dressed up in his shool clothing like that; pity he doesn't wear it all, all the show long :p like everyone else, even Marius.
I love Jenny Galloway as Mme. Thenardier - Pity I'll never get the chance to see her live unless she spontaneously decides to transfer to West End for a while. Was she in the Tenth Anniversary Concert with the Dream Cast?
@laxbellexmort who cares what color javert is he is awesome girls have played garvoroche before lea solanga (asian) has played fantine and eponine rosalind james (black) played eponine
lol. Yea but I didn't know who he was at the time, since he just came back from Europe. lol. He's SUCH a nice guy. My mom told him he spit on me and he apoligezed. XD
Oh, so you do mean THAT scene xD Yes, I know which scene you're talking about. They reaaaaaaally should've included it in the musical, I mean... hehe xD
Norm Lewis should've kept the hat, beard and baton. Why did they remove these awesome attributes in the 25th anniversary version? And for that matter, why didn't Philip Quast get to sing this in the 10th anniversary version? Why are the most monumental performances of this musical so pathetically executed? D:
@ikkinchikkin it's not the accent it sounds strange in general because the actors for some reason are putting emphasis and the N s and the R s which sounds bad singing in general
@djdanny9 -- It's not racist; it isn't suggesting that any race is superior or inferior, and it isn't insulting any particular race. It's just a matter of historical accuracy (or literary accuracy; in this case, it's both). I like a play to *look* believable, so I'm fine if Javert looks a bit racially different from the cast: darker, etc. (he is, after all, half-Romany), but if he looks like he's straight from West Africa, it's a little more difficult for me to pretend he's French.
@ImUrFanGirl I think perhaps you've replied to me without reading the actual discussion my comment was a part of. I'm not saying it matters what color Javert is, nor have I said he's anything *but* awesome. I also haven't said anything about the races of any of the other characters. Please read the rest of the conversation without taking one comment out of context- you end up making an irrelevant comment otherwise.
@threescoreandten Well, actually, I saw Sweeney Todd with a woman playing Pirelli, and it was actually quite good- her voice was really excellent for the part, and it was difficult to tell she was a woman. However, I have no doubt that it can be disastrous at the same time. But generally, I feel that casting really has to stick with the characters' profiles. Javert, though, in the world of the musical, isn't racially defined. In the book, yes, but it's not like Porgy and Bess or Mimi in RENT.
@laxbellexmort -- Oh, I would have been happy if Pirelli were played by a woman who could successfully cross-dress and sing the role. The one I saw was just very obviously a woman (petite, curvy, smooth-faced, pretty) and she didn't have such a great singing voice (for Pirelli's range or overall, I couldn't tell). I agree that Javert does get some wiggle-room, but only as much as all the other leads. They're French people in 1832. That's his racial "definition," if you will.
@djdanny9 It....it isn't actually an issue of being racist. If a character is called to be a certain description, then that's that. It's like there being a male character in a show, and a female isn't cast to play him. Because that's not the character. It's like...in RENT, you rarely(if ever) see anyone white as Mimi. Because Mimi isn't white. Similarly, if someone's acting doesn't fit a character, singing doesn't matter. They won't be cast. It's just logic. However, this Javert kicks ass.
In truth, they should all be doing French accents for it to be authentic. Neither British nor American are realistic. But that's not the thing to hate the singing for, I think.
@balletDancergirl22 mmm, I wonder if french used to speak english with a cockney accent during the nineteenth century?! So no, I dont see any diference between english or american accent for this musical. If you were refering to Oliver! Then I would see a point.
@laxbellexmort --Agreed. I mean, there's nothing wrong with his performance. I simply find it harder to "fall into" the story when something like that is inaccurate. In the recent run of Sweeney Todd, the barber was played by a woman, and it felt SO wrong, like a high school production where not enough boys tried out to fit all the male roles. And I doubt I could handle Porgy and Bess if a lead character were played by a white person.
@ImUrFanGirl While that is SOMETIMES the case, no. If, IN THE SHOW, a character is supposed to have a certain description (again, I'll use my example of Mimi in RENT- she's Hispanic. She just *is*. That's a part of her character description), then they will and should be cast accordingly. The best voice doesn't win. If you don't fit the role, you won't get cast, even if you outsing everyone. Sorry. However, AS I ALSO SAID, for this SHOW, Javert isn't defined, so it's not as significant.
I saw this cast, except Drew was still playing Grantaire. I loved it, but I prefer when Drew moved up the ranks and love his Enjolras and Javert. Too young to really play a believable Valjean, but a phenomenal actor nonetheless.
@laxbellexmort i read ur comments but on stage versions the best voice wins. in a movie you are suppose to cast a character based on how the character is suppose to look. like eponine for example is suppose to be very unattractive but all of the women who played ponine were beautiful. for POTO christine is meant to be blond and enjolras in les mis is suppose to be blond too.
@djdanny9 I don't think you understand. I ask again about RENT. You have a character named Mimi Marquez. The character's profile is that she is hispanic. Thus you do not cast a white woman. With Javert, you do get some wiggle-room, because it's not concretely defined that he's white- unless you read the book. In the realm of the play, he's not described in that way. It's important, though, to pay attention to characterization and adhere to it. It's not a racist thing, like you previously said.
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VALJEAN ROLLING HIS EYES WHEN JAVERT SAYS "The streets are not save" I LOVE IT
"I see you ain't changed a bit!"
Oh god, I love how he's just a coat and tall hat when enters, like how Hugo descrived Javert in the book.
I love the look on Valjean's face at about 5:45.
Javert: "Monsieur, the streets are not safe . . ."
Valjean's thoughts: "No kidding!"
Ahh. Wow this Eponine is so different than other ones I've seen. She is so much more like the one in the brick! A lot of times Eponine is played like the female hero figure and given a really sympathetic edge along with making her similar to a perfect personna but I like this one, she seems like who she was in the book. A little crazy, flirty but tough as well
Over all i think Celia did amazing!
Norm using the baton to silence Thenadier is such a nice touch! Menacing but in an almost gentle manner. Love this!!!!
Norm Lewis is my second-favorite Javert ever, second only to Quast.
Adam Jacobs is the new Michael Ball. He's amazing.
And Celia is a perfect almostHugocrazy Eponine. Awesome.
Drew Sarich and Norm Lewis in one production is HEAVEN
Valjean rolling his eyes at Javert. Haha.
Holy Hell, this Eponine is literally ready to jump on Marius right there :D
@SailorYavin Cool. Norm Lewis reprised his role of Javert in the London production as well as the 25th anniversary concert at the O2. Got the latter on DVD almost a few months back.
Javert... awesome hat.
It's supposed to be scary. The director of the revival wanted to make Eponine more creepy and desperate, and Celia Keenan Bolger acts it perfectly. If you watch Celia's On My Own, it is a gem because of the acting work in it. They also went away from the traditional 'cute' Eponine which was a very wonderful and welcome change. For me, at least.
I would have so loved to see this cast live!! Celia Keenan-Bolger is one of my favorite Eponines, and I adore Norm Lewis and Adam Jacobs, and I've been a huge fan of Drew Sarich since I heard him in the German version of "Hunchback of Notre Dame." Everyone else seems fantastic too! Thanks for sharing :)
Holy bejesus, I get chills when Norm sings.
I read that when he was first cast on Broadway, he played Grantaire and was the understudy for every other male lead. So he's played of the male roles at least once. Very talented man!
OMG! I love les mis! I just saw it today at the broadhurst theater in NY for the second time. Adam Jacobs(Marius) is GORGEOUS and he has such a great voice. They all have great voices. Im definately going to see it again.
.............why did Eponine fall on the ground after Parnasse grabbed her? Celia really plays up the crazy thing.
Yeah I was about to ask that?!🤔
I think it just shows how uninhibited she is. She's so outside the bounds of "normal" that she even sprawls out on her back in the middle of the street when she wants to.
What a sturdy voice!!
3:35 - I love how Marius can tell that was Eponine without looking.
If you want to talk about little things, um during In My Life, when Valjean enters the gate, Montparnasse is lurking in the back of the stage.
Thus he opens the line in the Attack on Rue Plumet "This is his liar, I've seen the old fox around..."
Interesting combination for your Javert. Anyway, reading the book helps bring out the character a lot. That's the problem with Hugo's writing. These characters are real with the same thoughts and feelings as us. It makes for an incredible read but also makes it hard to cover them due to the many character attributes (but then it is always interesting to see the various interpretations people use)
i love this song and the gavroche and enjorlas and evryone... Les misreables is great. i've been in love with it since the first page two years ago when i was ten... where does time go?
Too bad no one ever caught Celia during the scene where Javert is talking to the Thenardiers after Valjean ran away. Adam, who is looking for Valjean and Cosette, looks up to Celia and asks if she saw where they went, and she points in the opposite direction of where they ran. It's awesome. I love the little things Celia did with the character.
DREW SARICH
Listen to the Complete Symphonic Recording of Javert’s Intervention to see the tempo and energy this song should be played/sung at...
Lovee eponines running and marius colliding with cosette. Looked so real😂
i love how celia runs her fingers through his hair. it's the best i've seen the scene done. I love Les mis, it was the first play i ever saw. :)
I did get showered on in the first row when I saw les mis in the westend last week lol
Drew was awesome as Valjean
I had a bit of difficulty with that too. Javert is the son of a gypsy and a galley slave (convict) so it's possible that he was black, can't remember how he was described. However I'd been so used to caucasian Javerts that it was a bit odd to see Norm playing him (not that I'm racist, I just like the characters to be correct i.e. Fantine was supposed to have long beautiful blonde hair). However, Norm is awesome in this part and I'm glad they chose him for this part.
It's on the same page! On the same paragraph, even. Mine's the Norman Denny translation, Part One/V/5 page 165, "Locks of hair concealing the forehead and falling over the eyebrows". The sideburns was the first sentence of this paragraph, and the bangs was the last.
I'm sorry but I totally love Montparnasse and Eponine together. I loved them in this. Great voice and great video.
Four named characters and then his ensemble track, I think. He was Grantaire, Enjolras, Javert and Jean Valjean, I think.
I assume this is Drew when he was playing Garataine(or whatever) and under studying Enjorlas and Javert. He's awesome!!
Yup!
please post stars!
I like the way Marius and Enjolras seems so powerful in here, looking down (literally) at the streets, acting as they are already seen as the gods who will make it better.
Drew Sarich looks georgeous fully dressed up in his shool clothing like that; pity he doesn't wear it all, all the show long :p like everyone else, even Marius.
Gary Beach = Awesome. Very nice job.
Haha I think so! I seriously almost died from laughing so hard!
in the book.
when I saw the show, Drew Sarich (who was Valjean at the time) got entrance applause....of course it was me and like some others but still....
@genungapearl its really strange that only us english people can do an cockney accent to give it that extra feel
Love it!
I love Jenny Galloway as Mme. Thenardier - Pity I'll never get the chance to see her live unless she spontaneously decides to transfer to West End for a while. Was she in the Tenth Anniversary Concert with the Dream Cast?
Who hasn't Drew Sarich played, man?
yea....Drew spits when he sings sometimes....I know believe me...first time I saw him perform in Lestat his spit landed on me...
@laxbellexmort who cares what color javert is he is awesome
girls have played garvoroche before
lea solanga (asian) has played fantine and eponine
rosalind james (black) played eponine
You've seen Drew three times? I'm so jealous...
@SailorYavin Yeah, this Javert's awesome!
lol. Yea but I didn't know who he was at the time, since he just came back from Europe. lol. He's SUCH a nice guy. My mom told him he spit on me and he apoligezed. XD
...I might've just had a misunderstanding, sorry XD I thought you were talking about "would you like my hat" from the Brick xD
Norm Lewis.
Hey! Do you have this Eponine singing Little Fall of Rain? She's my favorite I've ever seen! I'd love to see her do that song.
He probably really has a lot of hair, too. At least that's how I'm picturing him xD You're very welcome! :D
AGREED!!!! But I don't mind Gavroche. You've got to realize, for a kid who's like 10, this is pretty good!
yes
The gavroche is really good with the coney acsent ( cant spell)
I think it was never mentioned? All I could find was that he had bangs - and Google says so too.
Oh, so you do mean THAT scene xD Yes, I know which scene you're talking about. They reaaaaaaally should've included it in the musical, I mean... hehe xD
Could you possibly upload Dog Eat Dog or Javert's Suicide. It would be greatly appreciated.
maybe its to make it sound more old or something like that
Oh not by him but when the ensemble all come near the stage edge together and your in the front row it's like aarghh I got spat on :/
This set is fucking crazy! Where was this production?
Nice. Where was this, and who played Javert and Valjean here?
Norm Lewis should've kept the hat, beard and baton. Why did they remove these awesome attributes in the 25th anniversary version?
And for that matter, why didn't Philip Quast get to sing this in the 10th anniversary version?
Why are the most monumental performances of this musical so pathetically executed? D:
Norm had the baton at least in the 25th anniversary. Tho the top hat really needed to b there too for Stars
ohhhhhh I see.
@genungapearl well im british and we seem to do a pretty good way of talking in different ways which is kinda kl
Norm lewis is a great performer but why the hell do people keep casting him as JAVERT?!?!!? He's too pleasant to be the guy!!!
I actually liked him as Enjolras
@ikkinchikkin it's not the accent it sounds strange in general because the actors for some reason are putting emphasis and the N s and the R s which sounds bad singing in general
@djdanny9 -- It's not racist; it isn't suggesting that any race is superior or inferior, and it isn't insulting any particular race. It's just a matter of historical accuracy (or literary accuracy; in this case, it's both). I like a play to *look* believable, so I'm fine if Javert looks a bit racially different from the cast: darker, etc. (he is, after all, half-Romany), but if he looks like he's straight from West Africa, it's a little more difficult for me to pretend he's French.
who is this javert? he rocks!
sorry if this was already asked, but what the hell is eponine doing?
And the thing with the gun too.
@LordMaazo is he nice?
Was that the same Drew Sarich that was in the Dutch version of Dracula?
Drew Sarich?! How many roles of this musical has he played???
@ImUrFanGirl I think perhaps you've replied to me without reading the actual discussion my comment was a part of. I'm not saying it matters what color Javert is, nor have I said he's anything *but* awesome. I also haven't said anything about the races of any of the other characters. Please read the rest of the conversation without taking one comment out of context- you end up making an irrelevant comment otherwise.
@threescoreandten Well, actually, I saw Sweeney Todd with a woman playing Pirelli, and it was actually quite good- her voice was really excellent for the part, and it was difficult to tell she was a woman. However, I have no doubt that it can be disastrous at the same time.
But generally, I feel that casting really has to stick with the characters' profiles. Javert, though, in the world of the musical, isn't racially defined. In the book, yes, but it's not like Porgy and Bess or Mimi in RENT.
Oh god the American accents
2:29 I feel bad bad for the person it landed on.
@laxbellexmort -- Oh, I would have been happy if Pirelli were played by a woman who could successfully cross-dress and sing the role. The one I saw was just very obviously a woman (petite, curvy, smooth-faced, pretty) and she didn't have such a great singing voice (for Pirelli's range or overall, I couldn't tell).
I agree that Javert does get some wiggle-room, but only as much as all the other leads. They're French people in 1832. That's his racial "definition," if you will.
@becky2shoes oh it sounded like he did
oh thanks! and you forgot cosette and valjean too(but they're not that important here...so it doesn't matter)
Does anybody mind telling me what the hat trick is?
@djdanny9 It....it isn't actually an issue of being racist. If a character is called to be a certain description, then that's that. It's like there being a male character in a show, and a female isn't cast to play him. Because that's not the character. It's like...in RENT, you rarely(if ever) see anyone white as Mimi. Because Mimi isn't white.
Similarly, if someone's acting doesn't fit a character, singing doesn't matter. They won't be cast.
It's just logic. However, this Javert kicks ass.
In truth, they should all be doing French accents for it to be authentic. Neither British nor American are realistic. But that's not the thing to hate the singing for, I think.
@balletDancergirl22 mmm, I wonder if french used to speak english with a cockney accent during the nineteenth century?! So no, I dont see any diference between english or american accent for this musical. If you were refering to Oliver! Then I would see a point.
are you talking about gavroche or eponine? neither of them are mincing. They're both essential to the story
@laxbellexmort --Agreed. I mean, there's nothing wrong with his performance. I simply find it harder to "fall into" the story when something like that is inaccurate. In the recent run of Sweeney Todd, the barber was played by a woman, and it felt SO wrong, like a high school production where not enough boys tried out to fit all the male roles. And I doubt I could handle Porgy and Bess if a lead character were played by a white person.
lmao! did Eponine just spank Marius?
@ImUrFanGirl While that is SOMETIMES the case, no. If, IN THE SHOW, a character is supposed to have a certain description (again, I'll use my example of Mimi in RENT- she's Hispanic. She just *is*. That's a part of her character description), then they will and should be cast accordingly. The best voice doesn't win. If you don't fit the role, you won't get cast, even if you outsing everyone. Sorry. However, AS I ALSO SAID, for this SHOW, Javert isn't defined, so it's not as significant.
@balletDancergirl22 Oh! I see! Yeah you have apoint there then.
I saw this cast, except Drew was still playing Grantaire. I loved it, but I prefer when Drew moved up the ranks and love his Enjolras and Javert. Too young to really play a believable Valjean, but a phenomenal actor nonetheless.
@MrAaronWomball Thats exactly what i thought
@laxbellexmort i read ur comments but on stage versions the best voice wins. in a movie you are suppose to cast a character based on how the character is suppose to look. like eponine for example is suppose to be very unattractive but all of the women who played ponine were beautiful. for POTO christine is meant to be blond and enjolras in les mis is suppose to be blond too.
Woops, I meant to press reply, when I posted that comment. MeatballsMarlowe that's to you.
@djdanny9 I don't think you understand. I ask again about RENT. You have a character named Mimi Marquez. The character's profile is that she is hispanic. Thus you do not cast a white woman. With Javert, you do get some wiggle-room, because it's not concretely defined that he's white- unless you read the book. In the realm of the play, he's not described in that way. It's important, though, to pay attention to characterization and adhere to it. It's not a racist thing, like you previously said.
I don't know where you found that out because a British accent is pretty much the easiest accent for Americans to do.
I kind of imagine Norm Lewis is how Brick!Javert would look. Taller than everyone else, (if you take him the Gypsy way), he also has darker skin.
Makes sense. lol