My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back- Page 5
My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
#100re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 7:12pm
I'm sure both of us have that DVD.
Too bad it isn't my dream cast.
Sad thing is, and MYB can back me up on this, most of the Valjeans that performed I have on their respective CDs.
<----HOW HOT IS SHE!? And it fits, since she was Cosette. I would LOVE to hear her.
#101re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 9:01pmwhenever i think i got over it, it comes back for me too.
#102re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 9:28pm
"Peter Lockyer....no question IMO. "
Ugh, if you're into a lawn mower vibrato.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#103re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 9:44pm
Come on, Tim Howar is stiff, emotionless?
Peter Lockyer is my first Marius and will always be my favorite. But Tim is great too. He is different from Michael Ball, Peter, but he has his own character.
Kevin Kern is good too. But listening to his ECAET, I felt he got some difficulty in low notes.
#104re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 9:51pm
"They probably wanted someone from Japana - to appease everyone. Kaho Shimada was probably the most popular."
Well, it wasn't just that. She had performed On My Own in Japanese for the Royal Variety Show (and learned the English lines for Eponine in One Day More) in 1987, along with Dudu Fisher, Simon Bowman, Rebecca Caine, and I think Don Gallagher.
Apparently she wowed the bigwigs so much they really wanted her for the CSR, which had just begun casting. I have it on tape and it is pretty good -- nice and engaging and not too syrupy or overdone. Given their choices at the time of the CSR (I think Natalie Toro was Eponine on Broadway; Sylvie Paladino in Sydney, Linzi Hateley in London, Jane Comerford in Vienna, Shulamith Aharon in Tel Aviv...), maybe she was their best option in their eyes.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#105re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 9:52pmTalk about least favorite. Natalie Toro is my least favorite Eponine. Cannot stand her.
#106re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 9:55pm
Kevin Kern was my first/only Marius. he had trouble with low notes in ECAET? i never caught that. i should ask him to sing it for me next time...lol!
Updated On: 6/21/05 at 09:55 PM
#107re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 10:15pm
Am I the only one who thinks Dudu Fisher is full of himself.
I have him on the Israeli cast and half way through I thought, "Wow, this man is so in love with his voice."
He took all these optional notes that were annoying.
#108re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 10:29pm
LOL... Hee's not my favorite Valjean, but I really liked him.
His solo albums, on the other hand? Hmm.
#109re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/21/05 at 10:30pm
Is thata good hmmm? ?
And does anyone else HATE the narrator they used in Hebrew.
"But first, you pay!"
"Marius pays"
#110re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/22/05 at 12:06am
Wow -- never noticed that on the Hebrew recording! I really need to hear that again.
And as far as Eponine's go for the CSR, it SHOULD have been Linzi Hately! Her rendition of On My Own on the Stage by Stage video is the best recorded version I've ever heard. AND she sings it with the CSR orchestral track, so they obviously had her record it. Such a bummer she's not on the recording.
#111re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/22/05 at 12:13amTry doing the show and then never getting another opprotunity...ughhhh!...lol It's in SF so atleast I get to see it.
#112re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/22/05 at 12:15am
"Try doing the show and then never getting another opprotunity...ughhhh!...lol"
Why, because you were too old? 
At least the regional rights are going out in 2008.
And definitely see the show in SF as soon as and as often as you can. :) (I love this cast!)
#113re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/22/05 at 12:19am
MYB - PM me...about you know what.
No, on the recording (LP) the narrator isn't there. On the live recording, he is.
#114re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/22/05 at 12:24am
2008's when I graduate. Hmm.
Nard, who's your avatar?
EVIE
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#116re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/22/05 at 12:34am
I saw Tim Howar quite a few times and thought Steven Brian Patterson was much, much better. I thought Tim was cuter though. Has anybody heard the Hungarian cast recording? I can't find that one for the life of me.
One more question for those of you who mentioned Natalie Toro: I saw her in the recent JCS tour with the very, very yummy Eric Kunze and she has an amazing voice, although I didn't really appreciate her acting choices...how was her Eponine?
#117re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/22/05 at 12:47amShe looks different....realy...different.
#119re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/22/05 at 11:12amI love Melissa Errico! Saw her in High Society in San Francisco. Fun score of course, but not a terrific show. SHE, however, had "star" written all over her the minute the curtain came up. :)
#120re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/22/05 at 5:57pm
Yes, Melissa is kick ASS!
http://mefc.confroums3.com
Jean Prouvaire
Swing Joined: 6/21/05
#121re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/23/05 at 12:13am
Mother's Younger Brother, thank you for the footlight link. Should I hold you responsible for the US$560+ charge that just went through on my credit card? ($500 of which are for Les Miz CDs!)
LOL .... *gulp*
#122re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/23/05 at 12:28amlol, did you buy every japanese les mis cd?> lol
Jean Prouvaire
Swing Joined: 6/21/05
#123re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/23/05 at 1:25am
I already had the two 90s double CDs (though not the Kaho Shimada single released a little while earlier) so I got the four new ones - orange, light blue, purple and green. Plus the 3CD live Prague recording, plus the Mark Kramer Trio Jazz recording (already had the other Jazz Les Miz by the... DiBussi quartet or someone like that), plus a few *blush* karaoke CDs which I didn't have, including the complete 4CD set which I got for completeness sake even though the reviews on it are pretty awful.
As far as I'm aware I'm now up to date as far as Les Miz recordings are concerned with the possible exception of a couple of unofficial studio recordings and/or other karaoke tracks. But as far as cast recordings are concerned, I think I have them all except the aforementioned Kaho Shimada "On My Own" single...
I also got some Sondheim and Finn just so whoever fills the order at footlight wouldn't think I'm a TOTAL geek. 
#124re: My Les Mis Obsession is Coming Back
Posted: 6/23/05 at 1:35am
hahaha
If I had that much money, I'd buy them all...
But only every now and then do I splurge!
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