Embracing My Inner Geek is a feature created by me in the hope to show you all the geeky side of me.
I’d like you all to welcome Eileen to the blog today! Eileen is one of my best blogging buddies and I love her blog to pieces. She’s one of the funniest people I know and I really hope you enjoy her geek out over Les Miserables today!
HELLO PEOPLE OF LUCY’S BLOG! Okay, so Lucy invited me to her blog to talk about something of utmost importance: Les Misérables. Yes. The longest running Broadway production, coming back onto Broadway March 2014. It’s also my future workplace, of course. You’re looking at the future Eponine of Les Mis. Exactly.
But that’s not why I’m here, to wax poetic about how I’m going to be apart of the production one day. I am here to regal you all with the amazingness of Les Misérables. (Honestly, I’m kind of offended that my word processor doesn’t recognize “Misérables” as a word, because it is SO obviously a word. Also, Eponine isn’t a word, which annoys me so much. Luckily, I have just added it to my dictionary, so there is nothing to fear!
Ah, getting off track. I love Les Misérables for two very important reasons.
One: the music.
I could go on and on and on about the music, because the songs are so poetic and emotional, and each singer who does a rendition makes it so personal and special. My favorite songs include On My Own (which is one of my favorite songs in general) but I also love I Dreamed a Dream, A Little Fall of Rain, and Do You Hear the People Sing? The tune is so perfect and I love how each song builds upon each other and has an obvious progression, and each song helps capture the emotions so well. Les Mis is an opera, which means that there is no dialogue and only singing, so it makes the production really fantastical, but it also works because for each sad moment, the song that’s currently happening makes the entire thing realistic. It isn’t a cheesy opera; it’s so much more.
Two: the emotion.
I can cry and cry every time I watch the movie, and the Broadway production is supposed to be even more beautiful and amazing, and I’m making it my goal to go see Les Misérables when it does come back on Broadway. The actors deliver so well and ugh it’s unbelievable how fantastic they are at making something to beautiful and wonderful. Brb sobbing all over again just thinking about the movie.
I guess that’s all I can really say about Les Misérables. You MUST watch it, or read the book, and you have to cry. If you don’t cry, I don’t think I can be friends with you anymore.
Thanks for having me, Lucy!
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4 Comments
Eileen
23 November, 2013 at 3:57 pmHaha thanks for having me, Lucy! I’m almost scared to read my post again in case I incriminated myself in some way.
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Melanie (YA Midnight Reads)
23 November, 2013 at 10:49 pmOMG LES MIS IS THE BEST. My favourite song would have to be I Dreamed A Dream, but I love On My Own and pretty much every other song. I cry each time I watch it too, it’s hard not to cry.
Lovely post, Eileen! <33
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Caroline Taylor
24 November, 2013 at 1:17 pmOK, I have a confession to make, my knowledge of Les Mis begins and ends with Glee and the covers they have done from it, I love the songs they have done and yet I still haven’t sat through the movie or seen the stage production, shame on me!
Sam @ Realm of Fiction
24 November, 2013 at 10:13 pmI’m such a Les Mis virgin. I haven’t even read the book! The movie looks fantastic though, so I hope I can give it a try one day. Love Eileen’s enthusiasm for it! 🙂
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