discussion no. ?

[devils-child7.livejournal.com]

I've been such a terrible mod; I apologize profusely! The only thing I can say in my defense is that I've been away in Montréal, but still.

Today's discussion title: the most inadvertently amusing performances by actors in the show.

(I have a whole list, really: Uwe Kröger (no words on this one), Dave Willetts, Oliver Thornton, Dudu Fisher, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Julien Combey, etc.)

Comments

[beautyisme.livejournal.com]

I'm with you 100% on Diana Kaarina. Eponine is supposed to be pathetic, somewhat disturbing but certainly not "cute". I actually thought that Sutton's Eponine was a bit to perky for my liking as well. But Frances and Celia really "got" the character. She's not supposed to be charming and huggable!!!

Mandy Bruno- how could we forget? They should make the ability to sing a requirement for the role...

I actually sort of like Tracey Shayne though she does bug me when she tries to belt the end of ODM :) I like that she sounded...young. Like you could imagine her being the same person as the young Cosette. Generally my fave Cosettes have that light youthful sound so you're not thinking "who is this person and what happened to the kid?" you're thinking "ok, the kid grew up to be this person". I'm in a minority that doesn't like Judy Kuhn's Cosette for that reason. Don't get me wrong- I love Judy as a singer but her voice is too...heavy for Cosette. There's very little of a young girl verging on womanhood in there. She's just a woman

[meganphntmgrl.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to see Les Miz done in modern costuming, with Eponine looking and twitching like she's addicted to crack. (I don't mean that as a joke- that's seriously how I'd want to see her done.)

[beautyisme.livejournal.com]

Actually that's an intersting thought. I think Celia Keenan-Bolger, who was the best Eponine I've seen live came close to that in a 19th Century context obviously.

[vifetoile.livejournal.com]

I like that idea a lot -- wouldn't Fantine, though, be the one addicted to crack? She starts drinking when she becomes a prostitute in the book.

(Well, I would have Fantine selling a kidney instead of her teeth, but that's just me...)