me and my mommy went to go see 'les miserables' at the kentucky center for the arts tonite. it was our second time seein it. i love that play. have the whole thing memorized, no jive.
it's really good. i wont ruin it all for u, but its based on victor hugo's book of the same title abt a man's quest to find a good, honest life after being in prison for 19 yrs. its also abt the french revolution and stuff. it's really good.
jean valjean was fat. marius was a lil latin sumthin who reminded me of john leguizamo fantine was black (!!) eponine's boobs looked huge in the outfit they had her in the student leader whose name i still cant pronounce wasnt nearly as sexy as the guy who played him in the original broadway performance when the play debuted. that may have been the sexiest white guy ever made. coal black hair, ice blue eyes--this guy wasnt nearly as hot.
javert was excellent tho. i love his hair--his character always has long silky hair pulled back into a ponytail w/ a ribbon. valjean, on the other hand, just looked ridiculous throughout the play. in the beginning he looked like a caveman. the rest of the play, he was just fat. iont got nothin against fat ppl, but the jean valjean *i* know ain't fat.
and there was some random character with a really bad bob. just horrid.
anyway
i grew to hate the people sitting in front of us as the play went on. two couples, middle age, rich, white, snobbish--standard mythic norms, really. the women really got on my nerves. they were sitting man wife man wife, but the wife on the end kept lurching over her husband's lap to tell her inconsequential little things that the other woman didnt seem to care too much about. like she was literally just laying in this dude's lap tryin to get all up in her face. that really irritated me. then the wife, the one sitting directly in front of me (not Leany McTalksalot, but the woman she was talking to) had on like three bottles of makeup that was probably really expensive but just smelled like a mixture of sugarwater and pepper and made my sinuses ache to the extreme. and her hair was teased and got in my way. i hated her for that. the other lady was WAY too into the play. she was on the edge of her seat dancin and bobbin her head like she was at a G-Unit concert or somethin.
trivial, i know. i just decided not to like them. so i dont.
my favorite character is javert, just because he's so screwed up in the head. he's valjean's foil & very much a tragic character. tha's my dude.
here's a random 'les miz' memory for you. my mother and i had just seen the play. or we were gonna see the play and had bought the soundtrack in anticipation of seeing it. i guess i was like, 13, 14. maybe 15, i dunno. i was mucho young tho. one saturday/sunday morning/afternoon, we're sitting at the dining room table listening to the soundtrack, eponine's 'on my own,' specifically. we came to this part:
"in the rain, the pavement shines like silver all the lights are misty in the river in the darkness, the trees are full of starlight and all i see is him and me forever and forever"
and my mama was like, 'isn't that beautiful? don't u wish u cld write stuff like that?'
i blinked once and said '...i can.'
and then she was like 'well do it then!'
and then i said 'okay.'
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the play was great, though. the highlight was valjean's "bring him home"--the audience clapped for like 20 mins after that it seemed.
my mommy cried like twice. she looked really pretty tonight. not because/when she was crying. she just looked really nice.
so, that was my night on the town. ive been listening to the soundtrack since i got home.
my love of showtunes may be my most geekiest kept secret. that was eclipsed, though, when i remembered hyde from okp talking about how she and her friends used to play 'phantom of the opera' on the playground during recess at school.
