Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I've never seen the actual play. I would love too. The song that the lady sings when Jean Valjean is getting ready to die brings me to tears everytime I see it.
Ever since I listened to an unabridged recording of the book Les Miserables it has become one of my favorites. I think it is an awesome picture of the contrast between grace and law. I praise God that we are under Grace. ;^)
Happy Birthday Matthew!
Bear - I liked your midnight DVD run story... It is funny to look at what people would be buying at midnight... especially when you realize that you are doing something realy obsessive and there are no others like you!
I can't make the chat either! A friend called really late last night to ask me if I would come and help her show her husband's horse to a buyer that is coming at 6:30.
Without thinking, I said sure... She does need the help. She is afraid of horses and her husband is out of town on a trip. And this is a really butt-head horse that he has been trying to sell for a long time. I like the horse, but he really is a brat.
SO OT - 2J - Anyone that is still in.... can we do the view chat really early? - I could do it early! - Like right when you get home? - Or does that not work?
That would be pretty cool. Les Mis will be here in Richmond in November. We saw it about five times in DC and have seen it once here. It's our favorite. I actually even made it through the book...(which makes the musical that much more fascinating).
I'm not sure that would be my "all time" favorite, but it would come close...
Yeah, I hope not too. I wouldn't be fond of that.
Heretic!
You really need to see it on stage if you can. I've seen the 10th anniversary thing and that's pretty cool. But it is such an incredible stage experience.
And yes, it is a wonderful story of grace.
(I got Mrs. Stormhands the London Cast recording CD for her birthday)
How about 6:00 EDT? That would make it 3 where you are. I could possibly go an hour earlier.
Thenardier represents what happens to a person who is amoral and doesn't believe in God...
Valjean, on the other hand, goes through a redemption/saving experience... and that fact changes everything he does and says...
The climax of Les Miz is when Valjean frees Javert from a certain death sentence. Javert, at the time, truly believed that Valjean would kill him.
In the confrontation Javert tells Valjean... "once a thief, always a thief". Valjean answers... "you are wrong and always have been wrong..." Then Valjean lets him go.
Javert realizes he was wrong and his new knowledge causes him to break all the rules when he in turn lets Valjean go a day later.
Then, you have a study of a person who doesn't know what to do with that "wrongness". His life, his raison d'etre, his purpose and his calling disintegrate at his feet. He kills himself because if he was wrong about Valjean, how many others have he been wrong about.
The book is truly remarkable...
Go Duke! (well, in basketball anyway...)
We saw it at the Kennedy Center in DC in 1987. My wife says we saw it before it went to New York, but I'm not so sure about that...
We also saw Shogun at the Kennedy Center. Of course it never went anywhere...
We saw Gary Morris in concert at a private event at the Columbia Winery (Washington State). Just him and the guitar. When he sang the prayer...wow!
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