LES MISÉRABLES @Queen’s Theatre

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I have a CD of the Les Mis 25 anniversary concert, I’ve been listening to that for quite a long time. That one is very impressive with wonderful cast and crew, every time when I heard Bring Me Home with four Valjeans I just could not stop crying.

In China, musical is kind of a new thing, we do have musical fans, one of my friends is a life-long fan of almost everything related to musical, but still, compared with other fan groups there aren’t many of them. img_1949

It’s not easy to get the tickets. Well, it’s quite obvious, this is one of the most famous musical shows in London. I went there with 6 other classmates and the only type we could afford was on the upper circle. The theater is not large so if we leaned a little bit forward we could still get a great view. And the audience, all of us, we were so excited to be there.

Live is totally different from CD. The sound effect, the set, the performance, even incidents. The first half was supposed to end after One Day More, but they had some technical problems so it paused for about 5 minutes before that, luckily it didn’t take long and then everything went well.

The cast is extraordinary. Before I went there my musical-lover friend gave me a quick lesson about this company, but when I actually heard them singing it was really an eye opener. Jeremy Secomb, who plays Javert, I just fell in love with him when he sang Stars. I guess because I started from watching that Tom Hooper film and Mr. Russell Crowe’s Javert is really, well I should say at least he tried. Anyway after that every time when Javert comes up I feel quite nervous cause I really want to hear something good. Mr. Secomb has done a great job and he truly deserves the round of applause at the end of the show.

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3 hrs is really not a long time, at the end of the show, everybody stood up and kept clapping until the last person got of the stage. People were crying, laughing, some of them singing together with the actors. I guess this is why we love going to live concerts and shows, because this is the place we can actually feel it and share the moment with people around you.

There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from god
Fallen from grace
God be my witness
I never shall yield
Till we come face to face
Till we come face to face