24601!
24601!
coolphantom919
Broadway Star Joined: 6/6/06
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 2:18pmColm Wilkinson
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 2:19pmWhy did you feel the need to type that all in Caps Lock? Seriously, what the heck?
AndSoItBegins
Chorus Member Joined: 11/11/04
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 2:23pmRandal Keith (period) He is brilliant in the role and BY FAR the best to sing to date.
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 2:25pmWhy are you yelling at us?
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
Alex LaVelle
Understudy Joined: 8/16/05
#5re: 24601!
Posted: 8/2/06 at 2:29pmI like both Colm and Takeshi Kaga, from the Japanese Red Cast (of course, in Japanse, he's 24653, but that's beside the point).
Reverie
Understudy Joined: 6/3/06
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 2:53pm
Colm Wilkinson hands down 
Craig Schulman is amazing as well.
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 2:59pm
Randal Keith.
Also, I wouldn't type in all capitals here if I were you.
Steph_DeVo
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/06
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:03pm
Colm Wilkinson...totally.
BUT, I also love the Australian cast's Anthony Warlow - he is brilliant, though I have only heard parts.
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:41pm
COLM WILKINSON.
But I've only really heard him and Gary Morris and um... yeahhhhh... XD
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:42pmYOUR MOM!
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:48pm
Over here we use that one too, Zoneace, but we just say 'YER MA'. It adds the 'knacker' effect.
And I don't get the 24653 thing. Was that a joke of which I missed the point or is it actual Japanese numbering?
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#13re: 24601!
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:00pm
Colm Wilkinson.
Or in your language: COLM WILKINSON!
"One day, is that enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." --Waiting for Godot
Alex LaVelle
Understudy Joined: 8/16/05
#14re: 24601!
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:05pm
They changed the number in Japanese. It's ni yon roku go san, which translates as 24653. My guess is its because the "ah" in san is not nearly as rough on the throat as trying to hold the "ee" in ichi, which is 1.
On that note, I also need to throw in that I'm looking forward to Gemignani as Valjean.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 7:25pmHonestly, I havn't seen one bad Valjean in my multi-times viewing of the show.
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 7:33pm
Sideshow Bob! On The Simpsons, he's prisoner 24601.
Seriously, both Colm Wilkinson and Randal Keith are great, but Randal's the only one I've seen live (and his singing voice is amazing - his supposed baritone makes you think he won't hit the big notes, but then he does beautifully/powerfully and you're blown away), so I'll go with the latter.
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Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/06
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Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:27pmColm Wilkinson. I too am excited to see Alex in the role. I saw the other day and I held myself back from talking to him about the show.
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#21re: 24601!
Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:29pmI love Colm Wilkinson but I saw Tim Shew in the part and he was pretty dang amazing.
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