Your Personality, as Determined by Your Favorite 1980s Musical
Les Misérables
Even though you were riding in the relative privilege of the backseat of your mother’s minivan, the angst and injustice of Les Miz spoke to you through the headphones of your walkman. It taught you that, no matter how righteous you are, life is never fair. You also learned that even though you're destined to suffer great misery, love makes it all worth it. As you grew up, this knowledge (and perhaps a junior year abroad in Paris) led you to adopt a worldly, jaded persona. But despite your cool exterior, you remain a romantic at heart. You tend to see yourself as an outsider battling against the system, and you love a man who doesn’t play by the rules. Your Liberal Arts major ensured that you ended up working in some kind of publishing/non-profit/teaching job, so you live in a bit of squalor. But that doesn’t stop you from wearing chic clothes and resisting the cookie-cutter things in life. Oddly enough, you are now the type of person who would be extremely reluctant to publicly admit that you spent many a night singing along, word for word, with the entire Original London Cast recording while wearing your worn-in Les Miz t-shirt. But in your heart can ever forsake the memories of greatness like this (and also this)?
The Phantom of the Opera
As a young person who sensed great things were in store for you, you were immediately drawn to the passionate duets and soaring heights of Phantom. The melodramatic synthesizers and organs struck a chord inside your budding theater geek body. You were Christine. Even if you didn’t pursue a life in the theater, you still have a drama queen inside of you. You love mystery and romance, no matter how campy, and you enjoy a good Lifetime Original Movie. You had at least one boyfriend in high school that turned out to be gay. There’s nothing more thrilling for you than being pursued by a man, and you have a weakness for guys who are vain and a little jealous. You like candles and have a not-so-secret obsession with Celine Dion. You always look put-together and polished, and you like being the center of attention. While you may live a normal life on the outside, inside you know you’re playing the lead in an epic romance. Sometimes if you sit very quietly, he sings to you: “The phaaantom of the Opera is there inside your mind!”
Annie
Technically this came out in 1977, but you spent most of the '80s memorizing it and performing it with your friends at slumber parties. You, like Annie, had a somewhat plain and dreary youth, but deep in your heart you knew you’d been adopted and somewhere your fabulous real parents were trying to find you so they could whisk you off to a new, more glamorous life. Of course, you got over that fantasy eventually, but you never gave up that optimistic, plucky attitude. Now you’re a practical and outgoing person, who can win anyone over with your sunny personality. After all, “You’re never fully dressed without a smile!” You’re a dog lover, and you use a lot of exclamation points! You are mysteriously attracted to men with shaved heads, and you may have some lingering daddy issues—though you’re surprisingly well-adjusted and successful in life. You wear cute dresses and sing when you’re in the shower. You believe that things will always work out as they should in the end. And sometimes you actually find yourself thinking, on a particularly gloomy day, “The sun’ll come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun!”
Cats
One listen to the jazzy music and the lively Jellicle Tribe had you hooked. (Also, have you re-watched it recently? Because, whoa, it is BANANAS!) You might not have gotten all of the more adult themes of Cats, but it spoke to you anyway because even as a child you were an old soul. You grew up with a love of the arts, and now you dabble in something unusual, like being an acrobat or spoken word poet or having psychedelic experiences. There’s a drum circle or two in your past. You have a taste for the absurd, and love to laugh and dance. You run with a big gang of friends, and you have elaborate nicknames for all of them. You’re the type of person who collects stray cats and people, and your apartment bears a striking resemblance to a (cool, funky) junkyard. You’re a non-conformist who’s not afraid to rock a unique personal style—maybe you’ve had dreadlocks or wear skintight body suits? You’re spiritual, and you believe in reincarnation. You’re sentimental without being cutesy, and you know it’s important to be in touch with your past but not ruled by it. As Grizabella says, “Let your memory lead you. Open up, enter in. If you find there the meaning of what happiness is, then a new life will begin.” In retrospect, doesn't it seem weird that a cat could sing hauntingly about such deep shit?
Rent
Gotcha! This did not come out until 1996, so if this was your favorite childhood musical, all it reveals about you is that you are still very young. Congratulations, you have far more than five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes of life ahead of you.
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It WAS Annie! And I DO love dogs and pretty dresses! Get out of my brain.
@likethestore Me too!!! Except not dogs. But the rest: YES.
@likethestore Seriously, the Annie thing fit me to a tee, except for the bald guy thing.
@Lily Rowan SAME. If only Annie had had a cat.
What about Cabaret?! Nothing says broadway musicals like nazis and illegal abortions and symbolically significant fur coats!
@tatianaberg@twitter Cabaret was a 1960s musical, so…
(Fellow Cabaret fan, holla!)
I remember when I was a kid, my parents took me to the Winter Garden theater to go see Cats. Before the show started, the actors came out in full costume and crawled around in the aisles and balconies before the show. Unfortunately, that night one of the actresses lost her footing on the edge of the balcony and fell into an unoccupied seat below, thus breaking her arm. Sadly, she did not land on her feet and it still makes me laugh.
@saythatscool That is amazing.
@saythatscool: Were you beautiful then..?
@saythatscool What a great MEMORY!
ooooh! I didn't need to read past the first one. Who else totally related to Eponine and made extremely poor romantic choices for years, determined that tragic love was somehow the most intense and selfless love? But she was so scrappy and valiant!!
@insouciantlover Nope, didn't do that at all. Nope. Sure didn't.
@Monkey yeah me neither.
@insouciantlover Your comment paired with the youtube video is exactly how i viewed my life (maybe still do?)
Oh, ALL of the Annie stuff applies to me (replace the exclamation points with caps lock and sunny disposition with resigned cynicism).
Additionally, I also like to visit back-alley gin halls and trick children into scrubbing my apartment floors until they shine like the top of the Chrysler Building.
@applestoapples I loved the shit out of Annie but I don't think I have the sunniest of dispositions. I also made friends and family do the dance routines with me and would crack the whip if I felt they weren't performing up to par. So maybe I'm more of a Miss Hannigan. I do love dogs and dresses though.
@applestoapples I think if you keep the love for dresses and dogs, subtract the sunny disposition, and add the strict dance routines, you could also classify yourself as more of a Grace Farrell.
@applestoapples Grace Farrell is the BEST.
Oh memories. As a child I begged for a locket, and eventually received one when I revealed to my parents that I needed it because I was worried about finding my real family after being put in an orphanage.
They also explained why it wasn't going to go down like that. Nice of them to ignore my desires to be taken in by a rich sugar daddy I guess.
(PS my actual favorite musical is Sweet Charity. These are the favorite musicals of people who don't really care about musicals, I think.)
@Gnatalby Or, because I can read and you did say 1980s musicals, Into the Woods and (mainly for camp value) Little Shop of Horrors.
I stand by the idea that this list if composed of the commercial juggernauts, which are not usually the favorites of people obsessed with musicals.
I can't even listen to that I Dreamed a Dream clip because I'm about to go out and crying will ruin my makeup.
Les Mis lover and although the rest of the profile fits me to a tee I will NEVER be ashamed of those singalongs. Like when I brought my first boyfriend to family Thanksgiving and he had to suffer through my little sister and me compulsively dueting Red And Black.
@allifer: My sister and I still periodically break into "you're on your own, you have no friends, give up your guns or die!" It's all about Les Mis, even though my love for musicals started with an 8th grade trip to NYC (and Cats) in 1983.
@allifer Agreed. Pride in battle hymn sing-alongs now and always.
@Bittersweet My sister was not as supportive, although she did implant one of my favorite Les Mis memories by switching 'inside me' for 'beside me' when mockingly singing On my own.
@allifer Seriously me and two of my friends got told off by the police not 6 months ago for singing Les Mis very loudly in the street at about 3am (I live in a small town where this kind of this is apparently unacceptable). Also there was a period where 2 of our close friends were leaving town where we pretty much sand empty chairs and empty tables constantly. No shame.
Rent was my favorite preteen musical?
Out of the 4 choices, Annie was my favorite. My mom had the record and I used to hide behind a chair and stare at the album sleeve forever. I would hold the record and study the little lines, so confused about how the music got put on there. Then one time I got strawberry Pop Tart all over the record and ruined it. I blamed my sister. I still feel guilty.
@totallyunoriginal Seconded to rent. My seventh-grade drama club self LOVED that shit.
I am old, so A Chorus Line.
Also, I never had any desire to see Cats, but a friend had some free tix, so I went. I still wanted to demand my money back. It's a bunch of grown men and women in leotards pretending to be cats – AND THAT'S THE WHOLE SHOW!
@ejcsanfran A Chorus Line!!! Don't need to be old to love that one, it is seriously the best. At the Ballet, what???
@ejcsanfran I was too young to see it, but my parents did and bought the album, and I took it up to my room and made up a sort of ersatz plot based on my limited 11 year old understanding of what was actually going on — in the play AND the songs.
Oh man, NAILED it. Everything about the POTO description, including the Celine Dion obsession, is right on.
@littlebopeepshow HOW DID SHE KNOW?!
@rien à dire Perhaps because every night in her dreams, she sees you, she feels you. (I would be fine with it if we all did this again.)
Um. Hello, I'm the girl described as a Les Miz fan. Truly creepy.
In sixth grade, a friend and I would spend hours lip synching along to the exchanges between Jean Valjean and Javert. And everything in that description applies eerily well to me. I even recall listening to the Les Miz soundtrack in the back of my mom's minivan, no joke.
By contrast, I thought Cats and the Phantom of the Opera were super dumb.
@Emma K@twitter Holy shit, my middle school friend and I would totally sing "The Confrontation" together on the school bus. How we didn't get our asses kicked, I will never know; people usually just sat faaar away.
Everyone called me Annie as child and I thought it was my real name until I went to kindergarten. Total shock to my system to find out I was really an Andrea. I still love dogs and dresses and singing.
It's almost embarrassing how much I loved The Phantom of the Opera when I was a kid. I am a wealth of Phantom knowledge. This explains why I have so many candles now!
But let's not talk about the horrifying sequel, The Phantom of Manhattan.
Phantom of the Opera is my favorite musical ever, EVER, but I am nothing like what was described.
It's my favorite because the music is just by far the best. But also, people, this is the best version of it ever. (Drum Corps nerd alert.)
@alpelican I just listened to this three times in a row. So good!
@Sarah H. you did? really? *swoon*
@alpelican That video was basically my darkest wet dream made visual and public. I can't thank you enough
The answer is always Jesus Christ Superstar
@Tyrantanic: Or my shame: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
@Anne At one point in my life, I could sing that entire musical. If you give me a drink or two and a few spirited co-singers, I might be able to do it again.
@Tyrantanic I LOVED Joseph. My parents took me in second grade and it was seriously the best day of my life. I also think it was the first time I thoroughly enjoyed a man's six pack. Go, go, go, Joseph.
@Tyrantanic Oh HELL YES. I grew up listening to JCS (unusually forward-thinking of my extremely conservative parents). I now have the original soundtrack on my iPod and regularly belt it out in the car, to the great amusement of everyone stopped near me at lights.
@Tyrantanic Also one of my faves, and not just because I played Pontius Pilate in a version back in 1998.
I'm about 90% sure I wore out my copy of the original London cast recording sometime in highschool. Or my parents got tired of me ruining my bass singing voice by attempting to be King Herod and hid it from me.
@Tyrantanic If I weren't so accurately described by Les Miz, my Godspell lovin' self would kick you Superstar ass. Or, more accurately, sit in the corner petting a daisy, trying to turn the other cheek while you rocked out annoyingly.
WHAT. ABOUT. INTO. THE. WOODS.
@Doug Valenta@twitter Thank you thank you. Sondheim is the MASTER.
It was Les Miz growing up, then became Rent, which came out my freshman year, and I knew right away through theatre-people in the family (plus its ubiquity in culture, if you move in cultural circles where this stuff matters).
Les Miz is spot on for me. Rent did the world the disservice of providing, via La Vie Boheme, the laundry list of shit I had to get into, rather than getting into it on my own, step at a time, meaning I could be a completely insufferable East Village jerk by the age of 15, three years before I'd live in the city.
I was always partial to A Chorus Line, which I know came out in the '70s, but it ran the entirety of the '80s, also. That show made me unrealistically want to be a dancer and wear leotards and leg warmers every day of my life.
Leapin' lizards, Annie was my JAM. But I must admit that as I've gotten older, I've REALLY started to relate to Miss Hannigan, what with the bathtub gin and flirting with Mr. Bundles.
"It's time for a TUMBLE with the BUNDLE…."
When I was a little kid my mom would blast Les Miz when we would clean the house on Sundays.
It took entirely too long for me to figure out that when women are selling themselves it doesn't mean, like, a toe or an ear.
WAY TO GO, MOM.
@JoanTition Oh and I definitely spent this past Saturday watching the 25th Anniversary presentation on PBS singing along at the top of my lungs and cleaning my apartment and texting my mom. TRUE STORY OF COOL.
@JoanTition Hahahaha, this sounds like exactly like my Saturday. Did it include insta-weeping during the encore when Colm Wilkinson came out?
@Sarah H. I'm setting you both up with my Husband. He does a smashing Javert.
@JoanTition Yes! I wasn't the only five-year-old belting out "Lovely Ladies" without a clue!
Oh my God could this be more accurate?
I was the ultimate Mizzie. I saw it six times in three states and two countries.
I wrote about it in the third essay of my AP English exam.
I was Whore #3 in a School edition and printed out sections of the book talking about the various barricade boys to give to each of the pour souls playing them. (COURFEYRAC. WHERE THE LADIES AT? GRANTAIRE. GET YOUR DRINK ON.)
I would also lie on the couch, pretending the back and arm rest were Marius, cradling me gently as I died, singing A Little Fall of Rain with delicate, raspy breaks in my voice.
And Do You Hear the People Sing STILL makes me tear up. I caught the anniversary concert on PBS a few months ago, and holla at your girl, I was in tears on my couch.
I love the struggle! I love the fight! I love the triumph of love over vengeance! I am everything described above!
@LaFabuliste I was also Whore #3! Which incidentally was not the last time I was cast as a prostitute in a high school musical. I'd say it was typecasting, but in high school I could only wish to be a real ho- that had to wait until college.
@LaFabuliste I was SO MAD that the high school version didn't come out until I was in college. SO MAD!
@LaFabuliste I like you! I bet you have a favorite member of Les Amis.
@Princess Slayer COURFEYRAC 4-EVA.
@LaFabuliste oh god yes! I caught that PBS thing and I was practically in hysterics. I saw it at least 5 or 6 times…in Chicago and NYC and on some traveling shows, too.
Next can we do what your favorite rock musical says about you? I'll gladly write it. We can debate the merits of Rent vs. Hair vs. American Idiot vs. Spring Awakening (not including jukebox musicals like Rock of Ages; only original/adapted scores/books).
@EleanorRigby: I've already left specific instructions that "Those You've Known" is to be played at my funeral. It's a beautiful song – plus, goddamnit, I want plenty of weeping when I shuffle off this mortal coil!
@EleanorRigby I want to read this so badly. My favorite is Hair. QUICK, ANALYZE ME.
ok so recently i forced my roommate to watch cats with me (she had NEVER SEEN IT!!!) on this wacko channel we get via directv (OVATION!) and, no joke, we couldn't stop laughing. i had loved this musical so much as a kid that i didn't realize how incredibly ridiculous it was. MAGICAL MISTER MISTOFOLES!
Somehow my favorites Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George didn't make the list! Imagine being in the 9th grade and telling everyone your musical heros were Brahms and Stephen Sondheim. Isn't it weird that nobody asked me to dances?
@kayjay those were my favorites as well!! I went to an art school, so love of musicals, especially Sondheim, actually added to one's popularity.
A Chorus Line. Dance Ten, Looks Three. I believed that was the story of my teenage life.
@Yankee Peach Oh man. Bringing back memories. My high school put on that show my freshman year. It's a small cast – so many of us tried out and were rejected. The audition process really brought us into the story. I was more a dance three, looks three, but whatever.
Les Mis for ever and ever. Also, inexplicably 42 Street, a cassette of which ended up in my possession somehow. Little nifties from the fifties, innocent and sweet…
@no way 42nd Street is a fun show. I get "Shuffle Off To Buffalo" stuck in my head every other day.
Annie was my adolescent jam, but Les Mis owned me in middle school and high school.
A few true, embarrassing stories:
- I would sleep in foam curlers during elementary school so I could have a total Annie fro for school the next day. I was a brunette, but CLOSE ENOUGH. Also, why did my mom let me do this? Who knows.
- We didn't have big windowsills in my house, but the edge of the fireplace sufficed for me to sit and wistfully sing "Maybe" for hoooours.
- My best friend in middle school and I would stay up all night and basically tell these rambling stories where we inserted ourselves into Les Mis. Also, watched the 10th anniversary concert until we wore out the VHS.
- The last time I saw Les Mis live, I literally, no-joke hyperventilated a little crying at the last number. Like, people were patting me on the back and asking if I needed water or anything. It's just so beautiful D:
um, what about Dreamgirls?
I resent the fact that Chess is not on this list.
"Oddly enough, you are now the type of person who would be extremely reluctant to publicly admit that you spent many a night singing along, word for word, with the entire Original London Cast recording while wearing your worn-in Les Miz t-shirt."
ALSO I STILL DO THAT. LIKE ALL THE TIME. LIKE LAST WEEK.
Cats was my first musical, and therefore will always be a little bit of my favorite. Though I am nothing like the person described?
It was RENT, though, that got me in trouble when several of my friends and I sang it at the top of our lungs in the cafeteria.
Marginally Grown-Up Favorites: Assassins, The Last Five Years, Cabaret….. and, in the interest of honesty, Wicked.
And many others. So, so, so many others.
Oh man, Phantom all the way. Why does everything I loved as a little kid make me cringe now? And so true about becoming a drama geek with a taste for vain/slightly jealous men. Unfortunately I don't look polished and put together, but am totally still living an epic romance in my mind. Sigh…
Did any other Phantom-philes read the original book by Gaston Leroux? More proof of my childhood dorkiness, but it's actually a pretty good book! Funnier than the musical, too.
@ennaenirehtac yes, I read the Leroux novel in 6th grade! I remember not being very into it but finished it with smugness. Also, I watched the OLD black & white movie of Phantom of the OPera and I was so mad he wasn't pseudo-handsome like Michael Crawford.
I never wanted to be Christine – i wanted to be the PHANTOM! Weird?
I have the entire score memorized and I even have a giant book about it that had the libretto, so I could cross check my lyric interpretation from my CD listening.
Yes, read the novel years later! Have the black & white Lon Chaney movie and felt the same way! And I totally wore out the cassette tape I had of the cast recording before getting a CD copy.
Somehow I fit the Les Mis description much better though…love it too, though not as much as Phantom, but maybe it had a more subliminal impact than I realized since it was the first musical I saw in person? I've got the songs from both memorized, but always related more to the supporting characters – Eponime! Meg Giry! I'll never be a Cosette/Christine but I'm totally at peace with that.
And an extra shout out for Into the Woods – SO GOOD!
@PocketRocket This is possibly because Eponine is awesome, but Cosette? Nice girl, but honestly kinda boring. Oh, the way I used to tear up over "A little fall of rain"!
@ennaenirehtac OF COURSE! You *had* to read the book. NERD ALERT I actually had two separate editions–one with the pre-ALW show cover and one post. Turns out they are the same, just FYI.
@ennaenirehtac I had that giant book with the libretto in it, too! It was my MOST PRIZED POSSESSION.
@PocketRocket So many people are shouting out Into the Woods that I have to check it out. My musical knowledge is sadly lacking.
@LauraJ Pre-ALW cover! I bow down before you as you have Ultimate Phantom Cred. Seriously, I didn't even know the book existed pre-musical.
@ennaenirehtac I ALSO HAD THE GIANT LIBRETTO BOOK
In fact, I am coincidentally in my girlhood room *at this moment*, 1300 miles from home, and I think I might know where I left that book! Eep! I'm going to look for it right now!
I have four separate cast recordings of Les Miz on CD, both PBS productions on my computer, and two translations of the book (the Julie Rose translation is the SHIT, everyone read it, even if this wasn't their favorite musical) because it's my favorite book and I remember all names of les Amis de l'ABC and their personalities aaaaaaaahhhhhhh.
Of course I also think I actually damaged my car speakers by blasting the Phantom soundtrack a lot during my teen years.
Whaaat? No Sweeney Todd?
Edit: Nevermind, Sweeney Todd came out in 1979 so, Les Miz it is then.
I fucking loved Cats. I totally named my (STRAY!) cat Pouncival when I was a kid because YES. Also, yeah, I am kind of a hippie. H'mm.
@mouthalmighty Are you sure you are not me? I did the exact same.
I had to register and (finally) stop lurking and speak up just to say, yup, the Les Miz fan–totally me.
@MissT OH GOD, ME TOO. ON BOTH COUNTS (i.e. the delurking & the Les Miz fanhood). The part about the junior year in Paris literally made me laugh out loud, because I would always sing "On My Own" under my breath walking around Paris at night (and belt the last two verses when crossing the Seine – when there was no one around, of course).
Uh, I hear that, Miss T! Basically, I know all the words to Les Miz. Seriously. I listened to the Complete Symphonic Recording, and read the libretto, and everything. My now boyfriend played Jean Valjean in time gone by. Seriously, give me a line from Les Miz and I will sing you the entirety of what follows it. I am an encyclopedia of worthless knowledge about musicals in general…but that one is my FAVOURITE.
CATS!!! I've seen it at least 10 times in the theater (4 times in London, 3 times in NY, 3 different tours). I bought the soundtrack in 8th grade; a big, vinyl, 3-side fold out album. My kids have the classic cat eyes t-shirts from the last Denver tour, and I like to find You Tube videos of it about once every other month. And yes, your description of me is right on. Freaky close.
I wasn't alive in the eighties, so, I dunno, but the only musical I have ever loved was Grease, which I think just means that I love boys in leather jackets and drive-in theaters? And carnivals?
oh my goooood this one was really hard for me, but if I'm really honest with myself, I'm Les Mis. But for real, I LOVED CATS AND AM STILL REALLY ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT, even though I am now a grown-ass woman. When my dad finally took me to see Cats in 9th grade, after spending my middle school years obsessing about it, I cried with excitement when the first few bars of music were played. Y'all! I cried!!! Now it does seem totally weird, but I refuse to vacate that little place in my heart for CATS: THE MUSICAL!
@blingo Oh my god, I also cried when I saw it last year after not seeing it since I was five. For me it was the pretty white kitty's dance solo. It broke me.
At the- NO
At the end – NO NO NO
The end of the day – AUGGHHH
At the end of the day….CASSSIE I WILL BE SINGING THIS ALL WEEK AUGGHH
What does my deep and abiding love for Little Shop of Horrors say about me?
@femme cassidy That you have GREAT TASTE.
All the shoutouts to "A Chorus Line" in the comments made me extremely happy, because that is totes my favourite 70s musical, especially after doing a production of it my junior year (in Paris – yep, I am totes the Les Miz type), and I just wanted to say that I. AM. BEBE. Through the happy accident of a prima-donna castmate quitting three weeks before the show, I was promoted from cut dancer to Bebe. I don't think anyone else in the cast would've been better for the part, and I couldn't imagine a better role for myself; like Bebe, I have ugly-duckling issues all the time, which I channel through my love of performing arts. /coolstorybro
p.s. if any of you Hairpin readers are that particular castmate that quit, let me just say that yeah, I totally just called you out, but I can't be mad at you since you pretty much got me my ideal role – basically myself, but with another name & race – AND I got to stand at center stage for two hours. Thank you~
Annie for the early 80s and Les Mis for the late. I have such unimpeachably wonderful adolescent girl memories of bellowing "On My Own" at the top of my lungs with my 9th grade best friend in her girly room. I better go facebook msg her with some lyrics.
What does it mean that I am all of them??? :-/
Oh, Hairpin… you know me so well. TOO well.
OH NO, I am a Annie! Always have, Always will!
So, just looking at the first paragraph of this article made me look up and sing along to 10 songs from Les Mis, to the great enjoyment of my roommates, I'm SURE.
Also, it is interesting because after puberty I lost the ability to sing the women's parts in Les Mis, which is just fine because ABC Cafe is my jaaaammm
Only something like my obsession with Les Miz can force me out of lurker-dom. I’ve found my people!
Here are my embarrassing stories:
- I read the book cover to cover in 3rd grade.
- But wait, it gets better. Every Monday, my 3rd grade teacher encouraged us to submit potential books that we wanted to have read aloud for story time, and whatever book got the most votes won. I’m only slightly ashamed to say that WITHOUT FAIL, I submitted Les Miz as an option EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. For some reason, it never received more than one vote.
- I may or may not have played make believe where I was Eponine and I survived the gunshot by Marius nursing me back to health through the power of his love. He then dumped that prude Cosette and married me.
- I may or may not have dressed up as Eponine for Halloween one year and instead of saying “trick or treat!" sang part of On My Own.
Also, Nick Jonas playing Marius? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ4l3UtxYpo&feature=related This is not my United States.
@ohgodtheglitter Ohmigod. I, too, read the book in third grade and became the class reading outcast, wanted to be Eponine for Halloween (everyone just thought I was a hobo), and played Barbie's acting out a Marius/Eponine redemption scene. Only in mine, Ponine woke up, rehabilitated, and realized that she was way too cool for Marius and ran away with a still-living Enjorlas (or as I knew him, "the cute one in the Beatles coat."
Did we just become best friends?
When I saw the new one come on PBS, I flipped with joy because all I saw was Lea as Fantine. But then everything else about it was dreg. DREG. Nick Jonas? Really? That bald english guy who creeps me the hell out as Thernardier? No thanks. 10th Anniversary cast or bust.
@gametedisease HIGH FIVE! We are so awesome. Let's go sit in the corner and talk shit about Cosette.
DUDE. Seeing Lea Salonga as Fantine blew my mind. And I just realized that somewhere at my mom's house is a VHS tape of "The Making of Les Miz" which they did right after the 10th anniversary and showed performances with a few of the international casts. Looks like I'll be digging around in my mom's basement this weekend.
Creepy Bald Thernardier looks like Nosferatu.
Wow. I'm a fucking textbook Les Mis. My little brother, however, is a Tyne Daly revival of Gypsy – complete with five-year-old pre-bath striptease to Let Me Entertain You. Not surprisingly, he's now a playwright. Miraculously, he's straight.
And OBVIOUSLY Eponine is a thousand times better than Cosette. The end.
@rosalind Seriously. To this day I hate grown-up Cossette, her songs and her character. She's lame as hell and that falsetto shit gets under my skin. Except for the line "you will live, Papa you're going to liiivvvveee." That one gets me.
Whoa…. how did you come up with this?? Les mis is ME- pretty much perfectly (except for the living situation, my apt is totally cute..although I am a teacher) Les mis was, like my gospel growing up- even down to the London 10th anniversary cast. I think I neet to stay in tonight singing a long to it now…. And now that you mention it, I do have a propensity to get myself into tragic romantic situations. pie.
I FUCKING LOVE LES MIS! I've known ever single word to that show since I was seriously young and my mom had me watch the 10th anniversary on PBS. The super-abridged novel is the first chapter book I read, and Jean Valjean IS my moral compass. This description is surprisingly accurate, she says as she slinks to hide her women's college sociology degree…
Also, Lea Salonga was more ultimate as 'Ponine.