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More moments from Γ bo Svenska Teater's Les Mis - celebrating their 100th performance today! Yay, but why can't I be there?Figure 1: Enjolras takes Les Amis de l'ABC on a field trip.
I didn't really manage to capture it, but Look Down almost made me chuckle when I last saw it, for two reasons. First was that Marius looked a little like he was taking notes of Enjy's "where are the leaders of the land" rant. The second was that, when looking at Les Amis's costumes... Is it just me, or does it look like the group has a dress code - a bit vague one at that, but still? Wonder why they stand the ponytail-less Marius around at all! Also, oops, the guy in green is from the last season's ensemble. I have a really bad memory...
Also! I feel like the worst fan ever, but after five times, I've still no idea which Ami is which. The one in pink might be Courfeyrac, but I've no idea about the one in green. I need to find out about this.
Figure 2: Marius and Cosette being adorable. I love them.
Les Mis is not mine.
I got this computer in June but downloaded Caslon Antique only now. Shoot me.
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Marius, you're a failure. Leave, and don't come back before you're dressed colourfully enough to fit the rest of the team. May I suggest pale green vest combined with a plum-coloured overcoat, maybe?
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Spanish (or, well, new international production, I guess) Marius has the pretty robin's-egg-blue overcoat! It's much nicer, as far as a stage costume conveying important facts about the character; he doesn't look like he's permanently at a funeral, or... like... the most boring person on stage.
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True that - I really like the blue coat, too! I know the book had Marius dressing in black... But the book didn't have Cosette always in black too, or Enjolras in a shiny vest, or mention JVJ's magnificent beard that appears in every single production everywhere... So wonder why they have to stick to the book in Marius's case.
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...lol, Marius taking notes over Enjolras's stuff, srsly? Oh, Marius, you silly boy.
HA A DRESS CODE
Thou shalt wear fitted trousers at all times
Thou shalt not have more than two buttons undone at the neck (unless you're Enjolras, because then you're pretty enough to have them all undone, but of course if you're Enjolras, then you've have them all buttoned tightly anyway, because you're Enjolras)
Thou shalt at all times wear thy hair in dandy-esque curls or a pretty-boy man-ponytail.
Thou shalt wear waistcoats with strange and marvellous patterns.
Thou shalt wear at least one of the colors of the revolution at all times.
Thou shalt be shorter then Enjolras, and if thou art not shorter, than thou shalt crawl around on thy knees, to ensure that Enjolras remains the tallest.
Thou shalt not...
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...XDD Very, very accurate.
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Marius would be the one to not pay attention to the 'dress code' haha
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I'm not sure how different your version is from mine, but I can tell you which ABC boy says what in American Les Mis, if that will help your endevaour at all.
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I was thinking about checking that out before Friday, so sure! 
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Well, I have the full libertto of the score in my Les Mis book, which is somewhere.
Ah. Left it in the van. Got it now.
Red and Black starts with Combeferre running in and saying "At Notre Dame the sections are prepared!" Feuilly follows saying "At rue du Bac they're straining at the leash!"
Coufeyrac: Students, workers, everyone, there's a river on the run: Like a flowing of the tide, Paris coming to our side!
Then Enjolras sings until Marius comes in, which is followed by
Joly: What's wrong today, you look as if you've seen a ghost
Grantaire: Some wine and say what's going on
Marius explains about Cosette
Grantaire: I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last? I've never sen him ooh and ahh. You talk of battles to be won, and here he comes like Don Juan (which, fun fact, is pronouced Don Jew-on. Hadley and the Phantom are wrong. It has to be bi-syllabic for the meter in the poem to even work) It's better than an opera!
Enjolras sings about how they have to fight.
Marius sings about how screw you all he's in love.
Enjorlas sings about how they don't matter.
The students back him up.
The song ends and goes into the little Lamaqure is dead bit.
Enjolras asks about ammo and gun supply, then tells Grantaire to stop drinking.
Grantaire tells him where he can shove it- I mean says no.
Coufeyrac:In St Antoine they're with us to a man!
Combeferre: In Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones!
Feuilly: Twenty riffles good as new!
Gavroche: Listen!
Joly: Twenty rounds for every man!
Gavroche: Listen to me!
Prouvaire: Double that in Port St Cloud!
Gavroche: Listen, everybody!
Lesgles: Seven gun in St Martin!
Gavroche: General Lamarque is dead!
Enjolras sings about how Lamarque is dead and then goes straight into DYHTPS.
Combeferre: Will you going in our crusade? WHo will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?
Coufeyrac: Then join in the fight that will give you the right to be free!
The chorus sings.
Feuilly: Will you give all you cam give so that our banner may advance? Some will fall and some will live will you stand up and take your chance? The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France! (Cheery thinking there, buddy...)
The chorus sings again, and we go into all that crappy lovey dovey icky stuff with Marius and Cosette.
Skipping onto act two, where all the fun stuff happens and the characters names are mentioned again..
Enjolras address his little minions.
Javert offers to spy for them.
Prouvaire: Now the people will fight!
Grantaire: And so they might. Dogs will bark. Fleas will bite.
Lesgles: They will do what is right!
Marius sees Γponine and sends her off with the letter. She goes. She gives the letter to Valjean. She sings about how no one likes her. The scene goes back to the barricades.
Combeferre, Feuilly, Coufeyrac and Prouvaire: Now we pledge ourselves to hold this barricade!
Marius: Let them come in their legions and they will be met!
Enjolras: Have faith in yourselves and don't be afraid
Grantaire: Let's give them a screwing they'll never forget!
Combeferre: This is where it begins!
Coufeyrac: And if I should die in the fight to be free, where the fighting is hardest, that's where I'll be!
Feuilly: Let them come if they dare! We'll be there!
The French army tells the barricaders to fug off. The barricaders tell the French army where they can shove it.
Joly annouces Javert's arrival.
Gavroche esposes Javert for the whiny pathetic manchild he is.
Grantaire: Bravo little Gavroche you're the top of the class!
Prouvaire: So what're we going to do with this snake in the grass!
Enjolras: Tie this man and take him to the tavern in there. The people will decide your fate, Inspector Javert!
Coufeyrac: Take the bastard now and shoot him!
Joly: Let us watch the devil dance!
Lesgles: You'd have done the same Inspector if we'd let you have your chance.
Javert: Shoot me now or shoot me later every schoolboy to his sport, death to each and every traitor, I renounce your people's court!
Combeferre: Though we may not all survive here there are things that never die
Grantaire: What's the difference die a policeman die a schoolboy die a spy!
Enjolras: Take this man bring him through, there is work we have to do.
Joly: There's a boy climbing the barricade!
A Little Fall of Rain occurs.
Enjolras:
She is the first to fall. The first of us to fall upon this barricade.
Marius: Her name was Γponine, her life was cold and dark yet she was unafraid.
Combeferre: We fight here in her name.
Prouvaire: She will not die in vain.
Lesgles: She will not be betrayed.
Joly: Here comes a man in uniform, what brings you to this place?
Valjean: I come here as a volunteer.
Joly: Approach and show your face.
Sentry: You wear an army uniform.
Valjean: That's why they let me through.
Joly: You've got some years behind you, sir
Valjean: There's much that I can do.
Joly: You see that prisoner over there?
Grantaire: A volunteer like you!
Combeferre: A spy who calls himself Javert!
Grantaire: He's going to get it, too!
Sentry: They're getting ready to attack!
Enjolras: Take this and use it well, but if you shoot us in the back, you'll never live to tell!
Feuilly: Fire!
Lesgles: See how they run away!
Grantaire: By God, we've won the day!
Enjolras goes on a spiel and ends up giving Javert to Valjean. TYou know what happens then.
Feuilly: Drink with me to days gone by. Sing with me the songs we kneew.
Prouvaire: Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads
Joly: Here's to witty girls who went to our heads.
Then the rest of the song occurs. Valjean sings Bring Him Home. There's a little Drink With Me reprise.
Enjolras: How do we stand, Feuilly, make your report?
Feuilly: We've guns enough but ammunitions short!
You should know what occurs never.
Pap pap pap. No more kid.
Enjolras: Let us die facing our foes, make them bleed while we can
Combeferre: Make em pay through the nose
Courfeyrac: Make em pay for every man!
Enjolras: Let others rise to take our place until the earth is free!
Pap pap pap. No more revoluntionists.
So, that's that. You're lucky I love you, that was all hand copied.
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You're pretty much the sweetest thing ever. THANKS. 
I'll try to learn these by heart before tomorrow so I don't have to print this and keep checking the names during the show! 
But you have a book with the full Les Mis libretto? How awesome is that, where'd you get it?
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Well, it has to be bi-syllabic. I don't know for sure how it's pronouced, but it's not pronouced Hwan.
It's not just the libertto! It has a timeline of Victor Hugo's life, and a full history of the story, from book to musical, several full page cast photos, and it is EXTREMELY boss. Amazon's selling used copies for less than a dollar.
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Or then the English lyricist knew how to pronounce it just as well as everybody else.
Argh, that sounds so good! Too bad the people who sell used stuff don't, usually, ship to Europe - I'd love to have that!
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Every other Grantaire has been correct. Fact. Hadley just decided "Screw you all, I'm being incorreeect~"
It is pretty boss.
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Just thought to mention that your effort was not completely in vain!
L'Ami in pink: Combeferre, l'Ami in green: Courfeyrac. Though the performer has changed - I just drew what I saw in that One Day More video here since I can't really remember faces and stuff - and he has a mighty beard. I want to draw that sometimes, too.
Still having little problems with some, like Bossuet and Prouvaire, but I'll find out about them!
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First - WOW! Thank you for adding all the lines in there. I've seen lyrics and who sings them on lyric sites but I knew they weren't always right. Pretty much the only lines I was absolutely sure of were Feuilly's. This is super helpful.
Second! When Grantaire sings "Don Jew-on" I figured it was for the sole purpose of being facetious. After all, that's where he gets to be all sarcastic, so why not sing it like that?
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An interesting point, the Don Jew-on point - I've always thought they just can't say that, but maybe some use that approach, too...
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Good! So... I did something! Yay!
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my marius was not nearly as awkward as this...
i feel cheated.
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'Tis true, 'tis true. Although, I'm seeing it again soon, and since this time I won't be as caught up with seeing it for the first time, I can watch to see just how awkward he really is.
Either that, or I could travel to (which country's cast was it again? Finland?) and just see it there. It might help to learn the language first, though.
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Finnish-Swedish cast: something that's Finnish but speaks Swedish, since this country has a Swedish-speaking minority. Not exactly true with Les Mis though - there are more Norwegians and Swedes than Finns in the cast, I think.
But hey, I don't really speak Swedish either and still enjoy every single moment (helps that I know the English libretto so well
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"Observe my firends, here we have the classic Type A Hobo, do not provoke them, offer words of promise and encouragement then be on your way. Marius. are you listen- DON'T TOUCH THEM-!"
They are an adorable couple >3<
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XDD
I only need to read through the comments of this picture to come up with a Les Amis on a Field Trip comic...
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They'd keep losing Grantaire in all the bars and Marius would be assaulted at the end of every page.
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In the production depicted here, the guy who plays Grantaire is actually one of the hobos. Wonder what should be thought about that...
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"Moving along we- Grantaire?! What are you doing here?! STOP HARASSING MARIUS"
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The Finnish production also has some serious Grantaire/Marius undertones. This... I should stop thinking about how much better comic this'd make instead of the one I'm working on.
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Ohohoho oh really? I had not heard of Grantaire/Marius before. Could be interesting... I picture it as Marius being mortified by everything Grantaire does. XDDDDDD
You could put some G/M undertones into Spin the Bottle?
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Well, that's maybe a bit of an exaggeration on my part - Grantaire only tries to kiss Marius when teasing him about Cosette.
Hmm, I don't know... I've too many E/R under and overtones written, already...
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D'awwww that's so cute! When I saw it, at the "Here he comes like Don Juan" Grantire had a rolled up paper and was bobbing after at Marius, flopping it down by his junk the whole time much to the catcalls of the rest of the Amis. Grantaire/Marius indeed
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That's... a bit less romantic but maybe more funny than the Finnish version.
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It's been 5 years-ish and I think that's the main thing I remember about Grantaire from the show haha.
Grantaire is keeping it classy. XD
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1) I'd attack every one of those amis and steal the clothing from their backs.
2) D'AW!
3) You're right, Marius doesn't fit in. How strange!
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Marius is such an outsider. Poor guy. But, then again, he's that in the book too - Brick influence!
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Actually, I've just realised that from a director's standpoint, he has to be very recognisable, similar to putting Enjolras in that red vest. The amis are also sort of one entity in the play, so they'll also need to look like they're a set... so it's all a staging thing.
SOCIALLY AWKWARD MARIUS FTW, though!
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Would you believe I've NEVER seen a live performance of it? *le shame*
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Hope you will once!
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So do I! All my friends who have seen it say it's fabulous.
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Field trip to the slums! Remember that how you behave and look is a reflection of all of Les Amis, so please don't forget your ponytails at home.
Cosette's costume is so gorgeous and you draw it wonderfully. Beautiful!
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I think I really want to draw more stuff with Les Amis on a field trip one day. XDD Thanks!
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Les Amis on a field trip. Gotta love that idea.
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