Les Miserables

Yay! Asphodel and I went to see "Les Miserables" last night. ^_^ They were really good. @_@ The guy playing Jean Valjean (damn, I lost the program, so I can't give you any names) was really really good. @_@ He was understudy, but damn, he did Valjean really well. I was impressed. ^_^

Naturally, Javert is the hardest role to live up to in my eyes. No one will ever be as good as Philip Quast. I am certain of this. I will never see a Javert that is as Javert as Philip Quast was. ;_; So the guy was all right, but he didn't hit the low F in "The Confrontation." >.< He sort of...uh...breathed on it...and it wasn't really there. I wanted to throw something at him. *grumble* But they did do the rest of the duet really well, so I was happy. But he's no Philip Quast. ;_; Can you tell I'm a total Philip Quast fangirl? Go watch/listen to the 10t Anniversary concert recording they did at Royal Albert Hall. Best cast ever *nods nods* And Philip Quast is just at his best there. ;____;

You could tell the Eponine was a Lea Solonga fan. She did a lot of the voice inflections that Lea Solonga did. ^_^ Yeah! She was really good. The Fantine started off kind of weak, but later her voice came through. And damn, her voice is strong. The Marius was very good too. He had a nice strong voice, and he could hit all the top notes of Marius's range without sounding like he was stretching for them. And the Cosette...well, she was just Cosette. >.<

The Thenardiers were amazing. @_@ They were just...Thenardier to the core. It was so cool. ^_^ I love them. Umm...*thinks of more cast members* The Grantaire did a good job of being the college-drunk type of kid XD, but the Enjolras had a really nasal voice. I didn't like him much. -_-;;

The kids, Young Cosette and Gavroche didn't really do much aside from sing the notes. No emotion, no real action, no real feeling behind it all. But hey, they're kids. *shrugs* Can't expect too much out of kids...but if I recall correctly the kid as Gavroche in the 10th Anniversary Concert was fucking amazing.

Okay, I'll stop talking about Les Mis. Overall I was satisfied despite the obvious lack of Philip Quast-ness in the show ;_; Uh oh, I think my Philip-Quast-as-Javert crush is coming back. >_> *shoves it back down* There we go.

Ali-chan has her birthday today. ^_^ We'll not say how old she is. Going to dinner with her and her group of friends tonight w000000t. ^_^

Let me also express my hatred of soft pads that don't have the rope taped around them. How am I supposed to dance if I don't know where the arrows are?! >.< Someone port me some songs for Stepmania. I'm going to get my own pad and do it that way, dammit! @_@ And I'm going to poke all of you who don't already play DDR to play DDR. ^_^ *poke poke poke*