SOME changes to be in Les Mis Revival — Page 2

Les Miz is not now nor will it ever become the longest running show in Broadway history. When it opens, chnages or not, it is a *new* production (and eligible for best-revival), and the number of performances start all over again at no. 1. So whenever Phantom closes, Les Miz will have to perform at least for 18 more years beyond that date.

Also, there don't need to be any changes for it to be eligible for best musical revival. I don't know why people are questioning that.

Thanks guys. That's exactly what I thought. It was this sentence that was throwing me off:

"Les Miz is now billed as the longest-running musical in West End or Broadway history."

Fosse76, there are some people that probably just don't know or understand the rules about what can be considered for best revival. There are those on this board, I think, that believe this production of Les Mis does not deserve to be considered for best revival because there will not be many changes.

I am glad that they are not making too many changes, I thought the way it was on the tour, which was the same as Broadway was fine as it is. A couple of changes they could make are:

Tone down the sound of the gunshots, especailly during Gavroche's death.

Don't make Cosette wear a wig, often the wig does not look good on the actress that plays Cosette IMO. Luckily, Ali Ewoldt didn't seem to be wearing a wig when I saw her on tour, so hopefully she will not be asked to wear one now.

Lastly, I am kind of hoping BWW, takes pictures of a dress rehearshal so we can see the changes in the costumes.

What do you mean "instead of"? They stopped doing that on Broadway/tour like 11 years ago.

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Luckily, Ali Ewoldt didn't seem to be wearing a wig when I saw her on tour, so hopefully she will not be asked to wear one now.

You were lucky, Colle, because she had one on when I saw it, and it was awful. She's very pretty and was so cute from the forehead down -- but on top it stuck up so much it was like she had extra ears. Poor girl; she's a great Cosette, too.

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But the Thénardiers BEFORE Nick Wyman didn't do it. And when when Nick stopped doing it, it was still sorta there.

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I think that everyone other than the Thenardiers should speak in Standard American Broadcast English. The Thenardiers should simply use character voices, with "stupid" accents.

I think they should cut the reprises (or -pre-reprises, he he) of "Look Down", "Empty Chairs...", "On My Own", "I Dreamed a Dream", "Lovely Ladies", "Master of the House", "Do You hear...?:, "Bring him Home", etc...
This would make the show only around 20 minutes long!!! (Can it be more obvious they composed seven or eight themes that are repeated over and over for the whole three and a half hours???? hmph!)

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Ohh, they better not cut down the orchestra too much!

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wait...i have a question. Because les mis will be changing something that may mean they might be elidgable for a tony nod.. Does this mean Chorus Line will not be eligable(sp?)

They all will be.

Changes or no changes.

I'd love to see some costume changes. All the productions were so cookie cutter before.

THE FANTASTICKS IS THE LONGEST RUNNING MUSICAL IN THE WORLD.

*8*8 off Cameron Makintosh.

Sry, just had to get that off my chest.

Back to topic . . .

I can't wait to see what the reveiws for this will be like. It's just ridiculous to think about what "changes" they could be making.

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