#51
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:14pm
Because many on here feel like they must be on a first name basis with complete strangers.
Breaking: LES MISERABLES Announces First Wave of 2014 Broadway Cast - Ramin Karimloo, Will Swenson, Nikki M. James & Caissie Levy — Page 3
#52
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:27pm
Because autocorrect keeps changing his last name to Kangaroo.
LMAO!!! LOVE! IT!
LMAO!!! LOVE! IT!
#53
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:37pm
I know it's heresy to say this and that I'll be shot at dawn for doing so, but I have always despised Les Miz -- and I go back to the original production which I saw in previews. I swore I'd never sit through this interminable bore again, but alas, Will Swenson, whom I adore, is going to be in it. Oh, well, another $150+ misspent.
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#54
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:45pm
Karimloo and Swenson look a lot alike.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
#55
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:47pm
Wasn't too crazy about the cast before, but now with Ramin......NYC, here I come!!!
#56
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:49pm
I don't feel like Swenson has the big, booming baritone voice the role requires. Would much rather have had Norm Lewis. Boo.
#57
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:53pm
#58
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:55pm
Will Swenson is a huge surprise to me. His wife should do it instead. I will pass on this production.
Updated On: 10/22/13 at 05:55 PM
#59
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:58pm
Yeah, another boyish Javert with a brassy chorus boy voice. Why?
#60
Posted: 10/22/13 at 6:03pm
Norm Lewis IS Javert!!!
#61
Posted: 10/22/13 at 6:03pm
Then don't buy a damn ticket.
Who said I was going to? I probably would have had the cast been better. But with this cast, I think I'll pass and save myself the 3 hours of eye rolling.
Who said I was going to? I probably would have had the cast been better. But with this cast, I think I'll pass and save myself the 3 hours of eye rolling.
Updated On: 10/22/13 at 06:03 PM
#62
Posted: 10/22/13 at 6:09pm
David Alan Grier is an inspired suggestion for Thenardier, but I don't think there's any guarantee that because James is playing Eponine, the Thenardiers will be black. When Chasten Harmon played Eponine on the 25th anniversary tour, the Thenardiers were both white.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#63
Posted: 10/22/13 at 6:20pm
Les Mis is my favorite show and I should be excited for this, but I really just don't see the need to have this revival. The cast sounds fine, all seem capable, but I'm just kind of meh about the whole thing.
So Lauren Bacall me, anything goes! *wink*
#65
Posted: 10/22/13 at 6:57pm
Swenson can't begin to sing this score. How was he cast?
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#66
Posted: 10/22/13 at 6:57pm
Is Alice Ripley involved in this? She has retweeted several tweets from fans saying that "if the rumors were true and she was in les mis they'd freak". Would she RT even if not involved?
#67
Posted: 10/22/13 at 7:11pm
Has Will Swenson's vacation schedule been posted? I need to book ticket for those dates.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#68
Posted: 10/22/13 at 7:25pm
I like all of these actors individually, but I'm not really sold on them as these characters. Both Swenson and Karimloo read way too young for me to see them as Javert and Valjean, regardless of their actual ages. Swenson also has a very boyish singing voice, so unless he tries something completely different I feel like he'll sound out of place. Nikki M. James reads much too old for Eponine, which really screws up Marius and Cosette as well. If they cast age-appropriate actors for Marius and Cosette, Eponine is going to look really creepy and sad in a way she wasn't intended to be. But if they cast actors the same age as James, well, it's going to be strange watching a couple of late-20-somethings fall in love in a day.
#69
Posted: 10/22/13 at 7:31pm
"I heard Cosette is a newcomer who is the child of a well known musical theatre lyricist and director."
Yup, I heard a rumor that it was Charlotte Maltby as Cosette!
Yup, I heard a rumor that it was Charlotte Maltby as Cosette!
Updated On: 10/22/13 at 07:31 PM
#70
Posted: 10/22/13 at 7:48pm
Ummm. Yes...yes...yes... And yes !
#71
Posted: 10/22/13 at 7:54pm
Any rumors on Marius or Enjolras? I'd heard Andy Mientus for Marius but didn't know if anyone else had, and I know practically every guy was trying for Enjolras, but the only name I'd heard was Forbach and he's Feuilly now.
#72
Posted: 10/22/13 at 8:11pm
IS Broadway ready for Les Mis again? It's so damn long and they have just worn this freaking musical down to the nub with the movie. Even if I loved it (which I dont) do people really want to sit through this again? It's incredibly maudlin.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#73
Posted: 10/22/13 at 8:13pm
People who enjoy the theater and seeing new productions and revivals of classics probably won't be, but this will lure in tourists. It has name recognition and thats what tourists tend to lean towards.
#74
Posted: 10/22/13 at 8:21pm
Im sorry but "tourists" wont recognize any of those names. Those are name to "theatre people" only.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#75
Posted: 10/22/13 at 8:23pm
The only thing that has excited me about this production so far is Nikki M. James' singing "On My Own."
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