Les Mis London 2011 Review

[lovemoony4ever]

In my last entry, I talked about the two trips to London I’ve taken in the last few months, but I neglected to say anything specific about the shows I caught while there. I’ll have a round-up post ready in a few days, detailing my experiences with the “other” shows, but for now here’s my impression of the «new» cast of Les Misérables at Queen’s

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[mmebahorel]

I can see the race issue in London where cast changes are done as a group - it does make sense, especially as you don't need a singer for Young Eponine. In the US, we've always just had to deal because Young Eponine and Young Cosette alternate in the singing role, so there's no way to "match" unless all 6 (two girls, two covers for each adult) are all the same race. Because it is cute as hell when you get a "match" racially as we're just not used to it :)

Cameron's back! I saw Cameron back in 2000 (1999 cast). No strong opinion on him then, sounds like nothing's different now, but wow, fun to see that name come up :)

Is it bad that I'm thinking "As long as Alexia Khadime is better than Chasten Harmon, and Lisa-Anne Wood is less annoying than Jenny Latimer, it'll be fine"? I think I'm going next month (unless somehow there are no tickets for any of my free dates), and after some of the annoyances of the tour, I think I'm most looking forward to the improved lighting design and being able to actually see the ensemble :)

[lovemoony4ever]

Right now, two girls (Chloe and Shakira) are actually alternating in London too, while Megan/Christina only play Cosette and Louisa/Anya only go on as Éponine. I'm pretty sure I had Anya once, but as Chloe is the only one prolific enough to have pictures on the web I can't say for certain about Louisa.

Haha, I actually read that review of yours yesterday;) I recently saw someone say they liked him, so to be fair it might just be me this time around.

Alexia is definitely better than the little I've seen of Chasten, and while Lisa-Anne may come dangerously close to offending your eardrums on a bad day, she's not annoying per se (incidentally, I've yet to see a single person not complain about Jenny Latimer). The current cast is far from the strongest I've ever seen in London, but it's not too bad.

God, the lighting design. I tried to force myself to watch some Tour clips, but I gave up quickly because I just couldn't see a thing.