Les Miserables
I saw Les Miserables on the evening of its China premiere this weekend.
Colm Wilkinson is awesome. A bit shorter than I'd imagined, but the voice was so amazing. I never thought I'd be fortunate enough to see him perform the role I'd heard on the London and Broadway recordings so many times, but there he was. It was surreal. Michael McCarthy as Javert was also a great role. Ma-Anne Dionisio was a pretty good Eponine as well. Yes, she went up for "pretending!" in "On My Own." Check the cast.
The only unfortunate thing was that we saw the shortened version... but I'm assuming that all the companies are doing this now? Anyone know if London has shortened the musical?
Just when I was starting to get a bit down about being in China, something comes along to lift the spirit. Ahhhhh.
Comments
Dangit, they had the shortened version in China??? I thought that was supposed to be for the broadway production only! .\/.
Posted by: yukino | June 25, 2002 1:04 AM
I know exactly what you mean - I was living in China for just that year and a taste of Broadway was so unexpected and lifted me up so much. I met some of the musos and showed them round, and they got me into backstage, it was awesome!
Posted by: Will Ross | February 20, 2004 5:58 PM