Les Miserables Rehearsal video (broadway.com)

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:41pm

I didn't see this posted yet, so I thought I would do it.

This looks VERY good (at least to me), I can't wait to see the show.

http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=538283

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:46pm

THANK YOU!

[liotte]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:52pm

Ooh, I am so excited for Oct 24!!

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:54pm

This makes me REALLY excited for the show. Incredible.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:54pm

Dammit.

I kinda want to go now.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:57pm

Aaron Lazar...do me?

Also, I was pretty sad about the lack of Celia. I mean, she sang what, two lines?

[ashley0139]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:59pm

Awesome video. Looks great! I can't wait to hear Celia sing that part.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:59pm

Looks good. I'm definatley gonna go do SRO for it sometime.

[timote316]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:03am

I got major chills at the end of the video. They sound amazing as an ensemble!

Question, tho. Was the final "One Day" always done without accompaniment, like it is in the video? Or is that just because they are only be accompanied by the piano? It doesn't sound like that on the cast recording.

Updated On: 10/7/06 at 12:03 AM

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:03am

I love Les Miz, but my excitement for this revival has been going up and down...it's cemented now though, I will probably be seeing it multiple times.

I've been planning to try SRO first for a while now...I don't suppose anyone has any idea whether that will be reasonable or whether it will be hard to get (like ACL)?

[BJC899]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:03am

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Photo_Op.aspx?ci=538188

hurray for pictures also!

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:04am

I'm so glad the video's finally up, it wasnt earlier and I was really anxious for it. Yay!

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:05am

I kinda didn't like the bits where Daphne Rubin-Vega sang, "Come to Me."

I like her quality of voice, and it sounded very Fantine, but it just doesn't do it for me somehow.

I'm excited for new Jean Valjean and Eponine, however!

[FosterChild]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:09am

There's MORE video here:
http://www.broadway.com/gen/general.aspx?ci=536203

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:12am

I love Aaron Lazar. Please tell me that there will be a recording of this cast.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:13am

My heart just stopped.

I cannot wait.

Daphne sounds fantastic. Norm is just a Godsend for this show. And Gary Beach and Jennifer Galloway - AMAZING!

Alexander sounded pretty great in what I saw, as did Aaron Lazar. And please, Celia. This is HER role.

This is my "A Chorus Line" my "Dreamgirls" my "Rent"...I can't wait for it!

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:15am

wow...so fresh and soo good. dapne wonderful- so comitted she will be fab. the scene btwn norm and gemani was fantastic...its all so new and fresh and AMAZING!

[broadwayguy4]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:15am

I must be crazy but am I the only person here who thought that video made the show look like crap? I find it a little pretentious to hear these actors talk about how great they are and how they feel that they are re-discovering this piece that closed, what, a whole 4 years ago on broadway? And by the the look of the rehearsal, they aren't doing anything new with the show. Same dusty revolve. Just because the show was cast like it was some one night benefit performance produced by Jamie McGonnigal doesn't mean that there is anything special about it.
Gary Beach saying that Daphne Rubin-Vega is bringing what she brought to Rent to Les Mis? Is that really a good thing? Give me a break.

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:17am

Hot damn...I'm watching the NEW footage now. Daphne is represented better in this one. And when Norm entered for "Confrontation", I got chills--this whole production looks so fresh, but that one moment of music brought me back to the first time I saw the show and I remembered how amazing it's going to be to see it once again on stage.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:21am

broadwayguy4 - I think he was referring to the raw emotion.

Anyway, are they putting little Cosette into the COME TO ME scene with Fantine? Or was that just for rehearsal? I find that interesting.

Maybe they will star mixing characters, insetad of the original in which the show was divided into, no pun intended, musical French-type scenes.

So sad, I get chills from the intro to DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?...

[Amneris]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:25am

i'm going to be honest. they've simply drowned out DRV with fabulous voices.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:37am

Oh my GOD, Aaron Lazar. He is freakin' amazing.

DRV is ... not good.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:46am

I wish we heard more of Celia.

Did Daphne just do Fantine with a NY accent?

Alex, Norm and Aaron sound wonderful.

[PARISinNYC]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 1:04am

I know! I just saw it and replayed it over 8 times. Honestly, I am so amazed. It is so much more fabulous than I thought. I thought it was basically just gonna be nothing special but this cast is...flawless. Gah. If they don't make a cast recording then that will be a major faux-pas just like never releasing the revival cast recording of LA CAGES AUX FOLLES.

[Neverandy]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 1:09am

I am glad I am not the only one not liking what I saw, although I think though that this is very early on in the process and probably some stuff was put together for this publicity day. That being said though, it doesn't make me want to jump thorugh any hoops to get tickets. Not liking DRV at all. Can't wait to see the reviews!