Gender Blind Les Miz

#1

Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 9:41pm

I've fallen in love with this idea. Casting male roles with females and female roles with guys. I think it would be a fun twist. Especially Fantine, and Eponine as guys. And Either Javert OR Valjean, and then Enjorlas as girls. I think having COsette and Marius be the same but then have Eponine be a guy would be awsome. Besides I wanna play some of the male parts. :) A feminine Javert, hmmmmm.

#2

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 9:55pm

One word: Why?

#3

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 9:56pm

It's in the contract that girls cannot play boys, and vice versa... I'm in the production this year.

Fun idea, though

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#4

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 9:57pm

Baritone, that was my exact first thought when I saw the subject of this thread.

#5

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 9:59pm

Cause it would be fun. Thats why. Didn't knwo it was in the contract. Thats interesting.

#6

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 10:06pm

I have a hard time believeing that a man would have the same emotions as Eponine...but thats just my opinion.

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#7

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 10:10pm

I actually was thinking the opposite... I couldn't imagine a woman having the emotions for EMPTY CHAIRS AT EMPTY TABLES and JAVERT'S SUICIDE.
I think that Les Miserables is great as is.

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#8

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 10:21pm

i think the only character that bway allowed a little girl to play was gavroche.

#9

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 10:22pm

really? I think that's just weird. I guess it would work okay, but I think it works better as a little boy. It just seems more realistic to me, in the time period and just the way the performance goes.

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#10

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 10:29pm

yeah the little girls were understudy to gavroches understudy. I know Christiana Anbri actually went on for Gavroche.

#11

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 10:31pm

I remember that little girl.
Thanks for the information.

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#12

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 11:04pm

I have a hard time believeing that a man would have the same emotions as Eponine...but thats just my opinion.

Really? I'm a guy, and of all the characters in Les Miz, I identify most with Eponine.

Maybe it's a gay man thing....

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#13

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 11:14pm

That was kinda the point. A gay man in love with a straight man who alreadys loves someone.

#14

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/15/04 at 11:58pm

Hm...vague memories of BARE...

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#15

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/16/04 at 12:06am

When we did our amateur performance the summer before my junior year of high school (I'm only in my first year of college now), I almost got to play Enjolras. I was so excited about that. The guy we had playing Enjolras was an awful slacker who skipped too many rehearsals and got kicked out, and our director said that, if the other guy she'd called didn't get back to her, I could play Enjolras -- and I did for a few rehearsals.

Alas, he got back to her.

So I think it would be interesting to see. I don't know how well some of the roles would work though -- a man playing Cosette or Fantine?

Updated On: 11/16/04 at 12:06 AM

#16

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/16/04 at 12:31am

Don't forget that some of the "male" students at the barricade were actually women, including Fantine in disguise.

Of course, in THE PRODUCERS, women play some of the men auditioning for Hitler, and men play some of the little old ladies.

#17

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/16/04 at 12:47am

Hm...vague memories of BARE...

No, that would be a straight woman in love with a gay man in love with someone else (a gay man). So it'll be just like female Eponine anyway, except Cosette is a man.

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Updated On: 11/16/04 at 12:47 AM

#18

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/16/04 at 1:48am

Harvey as Eponine

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Updated On: 11/16/04 at 01:48 AM

#19

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/16/04 at 1:50am

Interesting...

#20

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/16/04 at 1:50am

AHH!

#21

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/17/04 at 2:03pm

Harvey singing "Everyday you walk with stronger steps you walk with longer steps the worst if over" lol - Cosette

Also I totally see why you would want to play a guys role because honestly as creepy as it is Sweeney seems like a fun part to me, especially in Epiphany you could have alot of fun with it but alas, sweeney will never be a girl!

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#22

re: Gender Blind Les Miz

Posted: 11/17/04 at 2:04pm

Yea definately if I were a guy that would be my number one role, followed by John Wilkes Booth from Assassins and the guys from Les Miz.