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I'm glad I read your reviews, Juliebird and bt.
I just watched the 25th Anniversary Concert on YouTube and was all pissed again about the movie singing. I guess it is just a different animal.
They went for a startling amount of realism and it gave depth in some places and in others it was just disturbing or discornant.
I'm mostly pissed that One More Day got such short shrift. And Jackman was too nasal to be borne.
I agree Hathaway and Barks OWN those songs now.
Even including Mme Thenardier
I hold out hope that one day HBC will be cast in a musical directed by someone who has heard of the word "enunciate." She was hopelessly miscast in Sweeney Todd, but this part she could have absolutely nailed if only she would open her damn mouth wide enough to sing actual words.
I just watched the 25th Anniversary Concert on YouTube and was all pissed again about the movie singing. I guess it is just a different animal.
I love the 25th Anniversary Concert except for Nick Jonas as Marius. That is possibly the worst version of "Empty Chairs" I've ever seen.
except for Nick Jonas as Marius
Hopelessly miscast and outclassed. What were they thinking? Did he win a mail-in coupon contest or something?
except for Nick Jonas as Marius.
Yeah, how the hell did he sneak in there?
He was overshadowed by the reunion of the first cast and the 4 Valjean's singing Bring him Home and the ensemble singing One More Day, possibly my favorite song in the whole show.
What were they thinking? Did he win a mail-in coupon contest or something?
He's actually played it on Broadway, but I call Stunt-Casting!
I am sooo glad that Taylor Swift was not cast in the movie!
He's actually played it on Broadway, but I call Stunt-Casting!
West End, not Broadway, and just for a few weeks in the summer, so definitely stunt casting. He had been in the regular cast on Broadway several years earlier, playing Gavroche.
I am sooo glad that Taylor Swift was not cast in the movie!
I was just reading the other day that she was supposed to play Eponine. I'm so glad that didn't happen, especially since the movie Eponine was amazing. I was listening to the Broadway CD the other day, and I think I like the movie Eponine better.
Is it the London version that has a terrible Eponine?
Edit: No, it must be the Broadway cast, because I remember Terrence Mann as Javert. I do not like that Eponine.
Samantha Barks is in the film and she was also in the 25th Anniversary concert. Her version of On My Own is just as heartbreaking as Hathaway's I Dreamed a Dream. those were the two highest points in the film for me.