LES MIZ Marquee is up- Page 2

[Revolutionary]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#25

Posted: 10/4/06 at 11:13pm

Lol! Shifty eyes are scary.

[LeaGirl]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#26

Posted: 10/5/06 at 12:05pm

I took these the night they went up - I couldn't resist - sorry they're dark, but this is what it looks like right now:
From down the street:



And from up close:

Now what would you say if today I started over? Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover And I'll pretend like everything is already alright And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#27

Posted: 10/5/06 at 12:05pm

*looks up*

Oh, THAT'S still playing?

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

Updated On: 10/5/06 at 12:05 PM

[munkustrap178]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#28

Posted: 10/5/06 at 12:28pm

They have added more to the theatre. They now have like 6 little banners above the overhang going vertically. I think the theatre looks great. It's nice to see that face on Broadway again.

Though it's interesting that there are signs on the theatre that are still announcing it as a limited 6 month engagement.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[CATSNYrevival]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#29

Posted: 10/5/06 at 12:56pm

why are they allowed to call it the world's longest running musical? it's such a lie.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#30

Posted: 10/5/06 at 1:02pm

Well, it's the world's longest CURRENTLY running musical. *shrugs*

[munkustrap178]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#31

Posted: 10/5/06 at 1:03pm

I don't think it is a lie. If you looked at all the numbers, I'm sure they're absolutely correct. Cameron Mackintosh would know.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[RentBoy86]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#32

Posted: 10/5/06 at 1:49pm

It is. They just announced it in the West End. This production isn't, but the musical itself is still running. I think it looks great, and it's a bit of a throwback to the 80s to see Phantom and Lez Mis next to each other.

[ken8631]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#33

Posted: 10/5/06 at 1:59pm

Great to see it!

NOT great to see what the marquee at The Imperial looks like though - yuck! Too bad Les Mis couldn't return there instead! That's where the plaque is on the sidewalk!

[CATSNYrevival]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#34

Posted: 10/5/06 at 2:02pm

it is the longest currently running musical in the West End, but The Fantasticks is still the world's longest running musical...

[RentBoy86]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#35

Posted: 10/5/06 at 2:05pm

Didn't the Fantasticks close and re-open? Is that still part of it's "tally"?

[CATSNYrevival]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#36

Posted: 10/5/06 at 2:10pm

no it's not. but the original production still ran from 1960 to 2002 with 17,162 performances. the West End production of Les Miz would almost have to run for another 20 years to reach that number.

[Princeton78]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#37

Posted: 10/5/06 at 2:18pm

Wow...looks great.
I've always loved their advertising campaign.
The original theatre display from when it opened at the Broadway
Theatre was pretty neato.

"Y'all have a GRAND day now"

[EponineAmneris]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#38

Posted: 10/5/06 at 2:54pm

This looks beautiful! Back where she belongs I cna't wait to see this (and the show itself) for myself in two and half weeks!

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

[Colle]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#39

Posted: 10/5/06 at 3:04pm

I guess I am only amazed, LizzieCurry, because I didn't know exactly how they created the logo from the picture.

[All_For_Laura]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#40

Posted: 10/5/06 at 3:12pm

I am so excited! Now I just need tickets. I got my chorus line tickets last night, so I think I should wait a bit to purchase new tickets, but it won't be a sold out run will it...extending, if it does, and should, I doubt there will be a problem

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[Yankeefan007]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#41

Posted: 10/5/06 at 3:19pm

I bought tickets last week for the end of October, no problem. The guy at the box office said that November was pretty tough.

[Julian2]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#42

Posted: 10/5/06 at 3:25pm

It's such a lie.

And I intend to do something about it . . .

I have several names, one is Julian2. I am also The Opps Girl. But cross me, and I become Bitch Dooku!

[LizzieCurry]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#43

Posted: 10/5/06 at 3:45pm

Uh oh! Cameron Mackintosh better sleep with one eye open!

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[PARISinNYC]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#44

Posted: 10/5/06 at 4:01pm

It really drives me nuts how they wrote that. I hate when shows advertise by lying about how long they've been running.

But the marquee looks great otherwise.

[BSoBW2]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#45

Posted: 10/5/06 at 4:14pm

Longest running implies imperfective action, as in still going.

Right now, Les Mis in the West End (which is more or less this same show) is the longest running show of all the shows running today.

The Fantasticks is the show with the longest run ever.

[kaycee]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#46

Posted: 10/5/06 at 4:16pm

Whether it is lying or not, it has gotten me excited! I can't wait to see some production shots.

the summer rain just brings us pain, Louison...

[NS]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#47

Posted: 10/5/06 at 4:20pm

Les Miz is the longest RUNNING, Fantasticks is the longest RUN.

[EganFan2]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#48

Posted: 10/5/06 at 5:19pm

Anyone know why they chose that drawing of Little Cosette for the logo? It's probably a simple answer, but if there was history behind it I would like to know. Thank you.

[SDav 10495]

re: LES MIZ Marquee is up#49

Posted: 10/5/06 at 8:52pm

Wow, I like the marquee a lot better than I thought I would after reading the (hilarious) "throw up" comment. I think it looks pretty good--nice and bold.

Lord, the shot with Phantom right behind Les Miz brought me back to the long-ago days of my first musical loves...basically I've played right into Cameron Mackintosh's hands. Well played, Mackintosh. Well played.

"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit." (Emanuel Azenberg)

Updated On: 10/5/06 at 08:52 PM