My Les Miserables Review 11/16/06

[paphillyguy]

Posted: 11/17/06 at 4:57pm

My Les Miserables Review

This was my first time seeing Les Mis. I know in my mid thirties – unbelievable. I was excited to see that most of the cast was in except for one ensemble member.

All in all it was good. I was a bit under whelmed by the whole story but I found the performances to be on the most part amazing.

I found the first act to be extremely long. I see a lot of theater but I guess I am not a real sweeping large musical type of guy.

Alexander Gemignani – He, I felt was the strongest of the cast. He carried the show for me. His acting and his voice were unbelievable. I see a tony nomination in his future.

Norm Lewis – His voice was a pleasure to listen to. However, I am not sure what it was but I did not feel the anger or hatred toward his character that I thought you should. Maybe because as I read in another thread – it is impossible to hate this man.

Daphne Rubin-Vega - I was prepared for a train wreck but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I feel she acted the part extremely well and I actually thought her singing most of the time was excellent. She did hit a few clunkers, but all in all I enjoyed her. I think that her voice is so different that many people might be turned off.

Celia Keenan Bolger – I thought she too was amazing. Excellently acted and sung.

Ali Ewoldt – I was a bit underwhelmed by her acting. I did not feel anything toward her character. Her singing was good but other then that pretty average.

Adam Jacobs – Very well done.

Aaron Lazar – did well with the small role he had

Thenarndiers – very nicely done. There has been some talk of Gary Beech being miscast, I did not see it. I thought he was excellent

The kids - Young Cosette was good, felt a little bad for her she had a cold but handled the coughing very well. Gavroche was excellent and got a great ovation at the curtain call.

I read about many people feeling so much during this show but I was not feeling it. All I was feeling was I saw a decent show with and excellent cast.

There are my thoughts for what they are worth.

[KQuill]

Posted: 11/17/06 at 5:11pm

isn't Gary Beach the only person who hasn't yet been accused of being miscast???

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 11/17/06 at 5:23pm

No, there were a lot of intitial "He's Roger DeBris as Thénardier" posts.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 11/17/06 at 5:31pm

Thank you for this review!

[HOUFlip04]

Posted: 11/17/06 at 6:50pm

who was the ensemble member who was out that night?

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 11/17/06 at 7:13pm

Top notch review sir.

Yeah, I've heard people bash the cast too much,
a certain few yes weren't the best I feel they could've found.
But overall fantastic.