#26
Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:46pm
There were SO many moments I've had the pleasure of experiencing throughout my High School theatre career. In the spring of 2005, the lsat performance of Les Miserables, I can recall BREAKING DOWN during "Drink With Me" and that (of course) was the lead-in to "Bring Him Home" -- Neeldess to say, "BHH" was full of emotion (too much, I'd say!) but the audience understood why and it only added to the moment...The ovation I got holding that final high A was incomparable. My body was shaking my voice steady, and I just...felt so proud and accomplished after that moment.
Fastforward to the Epilogue, if you will. I'm standing next to Cosette: "It's too soon, too soon to say 'Goodbye'." She pulls me into her and just SQUEEZES, and she doesn't let go...She's bawling, and I'm trying to maintain my composure, but it's so, so, so difficult. Thankfully, I kept it together until Fantine's "Come to me where chains will never bind you. All your grief, at last, at last, behind you. Lord, in Heaven, look down on him in mercy..." We were hand-in-hand, and we were kind of using one another's inner strengths to keep going. I can't remember seeing much of the audience during curtain call, my eyes were watering too much...but, I was just...torn apart. For that show to end the way it did. Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Eponine, Enjolras, Thenardier, Mme. Thenardier, Cosette, and Marius, all of whom were graduating seniors...Along with several revolutionary women, students on the barricades, townspeople, stagehands, techies, the whole bunch -- totaling 28 seniors who took part in the theatre program. It was a monumental moment for all of us -- Something I will never forget.
Fastforward to the Epilogue, if you will. I'm standing next to Cosette: "It's too soon, too soon to say 'Goodbye'." She pulls me into her and just SQUEEZES, and she doesn't let go...She's bawling, and I'm trying to maintain my composure, but it's so, so, so difficult. Thankfully, I kept it together until Fantine's "Come to me where chains will never bind you. All your grief, at last, at last, behind you. Lord, in Heaven, look down on him in mercy..." We were hand-in-hand, and we were kind of using one another's inner strengths to keep going. I can't remember seeing much of the audience during curtain call, my eyes were watering too much...but, I was just...torn apart. For that show to end the way it did. Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Eponine, Enjolras, Thenardier, Mme. Thenardier, Cosette, and Marius, all of whom were graduating seniors...Along with several revolutionary women, students on the barricades, townspeople, stagehands, techies, the whole bunch -- totaling 28 seniors who took part in the theatre program. It was a monumental moment for all of us -- Something I will never forget.
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