I just saw the US tour of Anastasia last week, and they do refer to the bridge by name a bunch of times, since it was named for her grandfather. The book of Les Mis has an absurdly detailed scene of Javert chasing Valjean through the streets of Paris, when he first arrives there with Cosette after leaving the Thenardiers', and I tried once to see if it would be possible to retrace that route, but I found that most of that neighborhood has been razed and a university built there, so it's only possible to do the very beginning and the very end.
@@MickeyJoTheatre I liked that they kept that chase scene (and its end at the convent, where the guy that Valjean had rescued from the runaway cart helped them) in the movie. (In the book, that scene then led into a complicated scheme that ended up with Valjean getting a job as a caretaker at the convent, in exchange for enrolling Cosette at the school there.)
@@MickeyJoTheatre Next time you go, you should visit the sewer museum and the catacombs for more Les Mis adjacent locations. (The catacombs are bizarre and cool.)
Love this stagey tour!! Hunchback and "Out There" is also one of my favorite disney movies/songs of all time - which is why I felt sooo devastated when Notre-Dame fire happened🥲
I was convinced you were on your way to La Grande Jatte... the island featured in Sunday in the Park With George....I don't see how you could've missed it out!!
You guys are real troopers by traipsing through Paris to show us locations of where musicals numbers were set. I’ve been to all these locations but now I have a different perspective of each venue. I don’t think I would have been able to or even want to do the same itinerary in one day. I would be stopping for a latte or cocktail after each location visit. In fact if I were to start in Mortmatre I would have camped at one of the cafes and linger over wine, cheese and bread and just watch the crowds pass by. 👍👏😎
It’s been 35 years since being in Paris as a tourist in many of the same spots. Echoing another post, I’m thankfully amazed at how similar it feels. Hellfire for the win!
Notre-Dame de Paris is such a guilty pleasure / underrated / untapped potential. The English lyrics were so, so bad, but the music is so beautiful! It's a show I'd love to see a drastic revival of, where they could add a book, explain the plot, introduce the characters.... crazy ideas, I know!
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve been to Paris a few times in my life. I’m relieved to see how much has NOT changed. Feet hurt is part of the charm. We stayed at a 1 star hotel. Not pretty! Back hurt the next day plus feet. What we did for love.
Love the video!! ❤ Fun fact: you can now stay in the actual Moulin Rouge windmill.... it's on Airbnb! Went straight on my bucket list when I found out xx 😍💖💰💰💰💰
Pont ALexandre 3 is the most beautiful bridge in PAris. On the fight side of the Seine is Le Petit Palais which used to be an annex of Paris La Sorbonne. Amazing place to study
LOVE seeing Paris again.I have a French friend there who used to live in Monmartre . The first thing I did was spot the grocers from the film Amelie and I have actually eaten in the bistro from the film. I really need to go back n visit Paris again. it's been too long so thanks for sharing.
Next time you’re in Paris, Patisserie Chambelland is a completely gluten free shop that has all the traditional pastries - that way Aeron won’t miss out on the good stuff!
My English boyfriend and I were in Paris in September. We had an apartment close to the Sacre Coeur and ate at the Mere Catherine. we didnt see anythinhg stagey. I guess the Palace of Versailles was fairly stagey.
That brought me back to my trip many years ago! Stunning views from the top of Sacre Coeur (but so many stairs!) and the roof of the Gallerie Lafayette. I was traveling on a tight schedule/budget but would have loved to see a musical in French. I did get to see a Cirque du Soleil show though which was quite nice. This just tells me I need to go back and check more off my list.
Ah if you had been here a few months prior you'd have also seen the many posters for Starmania, one of the few originally French language musicals with a big following.
OH MY GOD NON! The restaurant with the windmill is opposite my friends old flat. You could see it from his living room window.. LOVE seeing Paris again.I have a French friend there who used to live in Monmartre . The first thing I did was spot the grocers from the film Amelie and I have actually eaten in the bistro from the film. I really need to go back n visit Paris again. it's been too long so thanks for sharing.PS the French are hypocondriacs. Paris has a pharmacy on almost every street corner
Hi! This has nothing to do with this video which I found interesting and fun. It has to do with your review of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" You made two errors: You said it won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened in 1962. And it did not win the Pulitzer Prize. Although the Pulitzer Prize committee recommended it for the prize, the committee's advisory board overruled it. The 1967 Pulitzer was awarded to Albee for "A Delicate Balance." There was no prize for drama the year "Virginia Woolf" did not win.
Good note, that should have read 1963 not 1967. I also advise you read all the way to the end of the sentence. "just as its brilliance earned it the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, its abrasiveness and adult themes prompted the accolade's withdrawal"
I was entirely unprepared for "the bridge Javert yeeted himself off of", so much so i snort/laughed tea up my nose.
Same 🤣
I just saw the US tour of Anastasia last week, and they do refer to the bridge by name a bunch of times, since it was named for her grandfather.
The book of Les Mis has an absurdly detailed scene of Javert chasing Valjean through the streets of Paris, when he first arrives there with Cosette after leaving the Thenardiers', and I tried once to see if it would be possible to retrace that route, but I found that most of that neighborhood has been razed and a university built there, so it's only possible to do the very beginning and the very end.
Ah, good to know thank you! And I absolutely would have tried to recreate that too!
@@MickeyJoTheatre I liked that they kept that chase scene (and its end at the convent, where the guy that Valjean had rescued from the runaway cart helped them) in the movie. (In the book, that scene then led into a complicated scheme that ended up with Valjean getting a job as a caretaker at the convent, in exchange for enrolling Cosette at the school there.)
@@MickeyJoTheatre Next time you go, you should visit the sewer museum and the catacombs for more Les Mis adjacent locations. (The catacombs are bizarre and cool.)
Your enthusiasm is unbridled. We thank all three of you for this wonderful, if painful, tour!
Clearly they chose fashion over function re footwear
Love this stagey tour!! Hunchback and "Out There" is also one of my favorite disney movies/songs of all time - which is why I felt sooo devastated when Notre-Dame fire happened🥲
I listened to Alan Menkens score on repeat when it happened - that show needs/deserves a full production
I was convinced you were on your way to La Grande Jatte... the island featured in Sunday in the Park With George....I don't see how you could've missed it out!!
Did I have Amélie stuck in my head the whole weekend? Yes, yes I did! 😅
Amelie content in this, the year 2023? Exceptional
You guys are real troopers by traipsing through Paris to show us locations of where musicals numbers were set. I’ve been to all these locations but now I have a different perspective of each venue. I don’t think I would have been able to or even want to do the same itinerary in one day. I would be stopping for a latte or cocktail after each location visit. In fact if I were to start in Mortmatre I would have camped at one of the cafes and linger over wine, cheese and bread and just watch the crowds pass by. 👍👏😎
It’s been 35 years since being in Paris as a tourist in many of the same spots. Echoing another post, I’m thankfully amazed at how similar it feels. Hellfire for the win!
Seeing the Palais Garnier is one of my dreams. Silly? Maybe. But yet.
Notre-Dame de Paris is such a guilty pleasure / underrated / untapped potential. The English lyrics were so, so bad, but the music is so beautiful! It's a show I'd love to see a drastic revival of, where they could add a book, explain the plot, introduce the characters.... crazy ideas, I know!
Yes I guessed right as I remembered the lyrics in parrrisssss, paris, like the mt tour idea!
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve been to Paris a few times in my life. I’m relieved to see how much has NOT changed.
Feet hurt is part of the charm. We stayed at a 1 star hotel. Not pretty! Back hurt the next day plus feet.
What we did for love.
Love the video!! ❤ Fun fact: you can now stay in the actual Moulin Rouge windmill.... it's on Airbnb! Went straight on my bucket list when I found out xx 😍💖💰💰💰💰
Pont ALexandre 3 is the most beautiful bridge in PAris. On the fight side of the Seine is Le Petit Palais which used to be an annex of Paris La Sorbonne. Amazing place to study
Awww really liked this one, it was nice to see stagey locations in Paris!
LOVE seeing Paris again.I have a French friend there who used to live in Monmartre . The first thing I did was spot the grocers from the film Amelie and I have actually eaten in the bistro from the film. I really need to go back n visit Paris again. it's been too long so thanks for sharing.
Next time you’re in Paris, Patisserie Chambelland is a completely gluten free shop that has all the traditional pastries - that way Aeron won’t miss out on the good stuff!
Thanks, this was cool.
My English boyfriend and I were in Paris in September. We had an apartment close to the Sacre Coeur and ate at the Mere Catherine. we didnt see anythinhg stagey. I guess the Palace of Versailles was fairly stagey.
That brought me back to my trip many years ago! Stunning views from the top of Sacre Coeur (but so many stairs!) and the roof of the Gallerie Lafayette. I was traveling on a tight schedule/budget but would have loved to see a musical in French. I did get to see a Cirque du Soleil show though which was quite nice. This just tells me I need to go back and check more off my list.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing.❤
Thanks for sharing, I want to go now!
looks like you guys had a great time- there were times I was getting school trip vibes- the quiz was bringing out the teacher in you :P
13:15 - a Parisian soundtrack right there
I just went to Paris last Summer and visited a lot of the stuff you guys saw. I 10/10 recommend it for the gorgeous scenery and facades.
A theatre fans tour of Paris. I see what you did there 😉
A wonderful tour! Thanks for this perk!!
So glad you enjoyed!
loved this video! how fun it would have been to run into you in the streets of Paris. :)
i don't think the Café du Théâtre is the place to be ahah
Hunchback of Notre Dame is possibly Menkens best score.....and how could noone mention HELLFIRE!!!!
Done all of these and the got one more to see: Lafayette's grave at Picpus Cemetery
Bummed y’all didn’t go to Victor Hugo’s house but maybe you’ve been before? If not then maybe next time!
What hotel did you stay at? Always interested in places that come from a direct recommendation.
I hope you react to some French musicals!! Even if the English version is shit, I loved Romeo and Juliette!!
Ah if you had been here a few months prior you'd have also seen the many posters for Starmania, one of the few originally French language musicals with a big following.
Anastasia I started to type and sneezed as you said it
3.57 It is not "...just the Moulin", Mickey Jo. It is the almost -as -famous Moulin de la Galette. The name is there above the arched doorway.
OH MY GOD NON! The restaurant with the windmill is opposite my friends old flat. You could see it from his living room window.. LOVE seeing Paris again.I have a French friend there who used to live in Monmartre . The first thing I did was spot the grocers from the film Amelie and I have actually eaten in the bistro from the film. I really need to go back n visit Paris again. it's been too long so thanks for sharing.PS the French are hypocondriacs. Paris has a pharmacy on almost every street corner
You really make me want to go to Paris, but my budget will certainly not allow that after having been to London last year😭
I don’t even like Phantom and I was counting down to the Opera!
It had to be done!
If it counts for anything - ALW is on the Hollywood walk of Fame
What about An American in Paris?
Bonjour 🇫🇷🗼
I'm sorry but how come no one said hellfire as their favorite hunchback song?????? obviously that's the best one
Hi! This has nothing to do with this video which I found interesting and fun. It has to do with your review of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" You made two errors: You said it won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened in 1962. And it did not win the Pulitzer Prize. Although the Pulitzer Prize committee recommended it for the prize, the committee's advisory board overruled it. The 1967 Pulitzer was awarded to Albee for "A Delicate Balance." There was no prize for drama the year "Virginia Woolf" did not win.
Good note, that should have read 1963 not 1967. I also advise you read all the way to the end of the sentence.
"just as its brilliance earned it the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, its abrasiveness and adult themes prompted the accolade's withdrawal"
@@MickeyJoTheatre It wasn’t actually withdrawn as it was never given. Yes, the committee wanted to award it but the selection board didn’t approve it.