Notre Dame de Paris- Page 2

[cturtle]

Posted: 5/18/05 at 10:42pm

no, CQT, you get an A :) i think the french CD is fun to listen to also!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 5/18/05 at 10:51pm

lolz! i have so many pics i want to use as my icon that it gets really hard to pic the pictures. im forced to rotate alot now! lol...

Belle is just so beautiful in french

[cturtle]

Posted: 5/18/05 at 11:05pm

CQT, if you liked NOTRE DAME DE PARIS in french, you need to hear AUTANT EN EMPORTE LE VENT (gone with the wind)

[nztheatreluva]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:26am

I've only heard one song from this, Belle, in French, but I was planning to buy the french version when I go to France later on this year. Do you think it's worth it?

[november]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 2:08pm

Saw it in London too, when It first started I was so excited, that ended qickly Awful Awful show

Posted: 5/19/05 at 3:51pm

I enjoy listening to the cd and I do own the DVD but I have yet to actually watch it.

[queenie2]

Posted: 5/22/05 at 4:08am

I really like the french version and the german version (with drew sarich). I was a bit dissapointed in the english version, but I love the refugees. That song is so wonderful!

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 10:04am

Despite my previous comments, I have to admit that I do listen to the Italian version as background music every so often as I'm not subjected to the cliche-ridden, derivative and downright clunky lyrics of the UK version. I still dislike it as a musical, but it is more tolerable as a series of songs if I'm in a particularly cheesy mood.

If you're curious then buy it, just don't get it in English.

[mrcacou]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 1:34pm

Notre Dame de Paris was the biggest success a musical ever had in Paris and in France back in the nineties. Millions saw it in the heartless Palais des Congres with its 4 000 seats. It was then restageD in 2001 in the more intimate Théatre Mogador ( a theater that was just bought by Jan van den Hoop who will produce Phantom of the Opera there in 2007). The show was ok but guess what, during a show I attended, Esmeralda lost her voice during one of her songs and then during her next number, it was back thanks to a pre recorded voice. That sucked but it wasn't the worst thing. My favorite song in the show, and the less known to French audiences as it was not played on radios a million times a day, la monture, suffered from a serious problem of the sound track that was going onward then backward, and so on. The girl playing Fleur de Lys succeeded in not loosing her temper, she did a great job. Notre Dame de Paris was the first big scale musical we had since Ute Lemper in Cabaret a while ago. IT had flaws but for the first time millions of people went to the theater.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 1:35pm

BoxOfficeJon - Watch the DVD. It's good for a laugh in that this-is-so-bad-it's-funny way.

I recently watched the DVD for Les Enfants du Soleil. Well, I watched a little over half, but it has to be the most boring of the French spectacles. I don't speak French and I'm not familiar with the story, but it seems to be about a group of people being exiled from Morocco(?) who are fond of carrying their luggage. The entire first act is devoted to these people standing around with their luggage until they finally board a ship at the end of the act. There is a moment where they all march with their luggage and a man waves a giant red flag that is almost identical to One Day More, but then they have to stand around some more. With their luggage.

[mrcacou]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 1:41pm

Lately we got bad shows in France. The only one standing out of the crowd was Chicago in its French version. Right now they are killing our hears with a new show opening in September, Le Roi Soleil, which is the story of King Louis XIV. So far we had two titles released on the radio, the first one "être à la hauteur" (Being up to it) was ok but the new one is such a bore that once again I will save my money to go to London instead of going to see such a show in Paris.