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And also - Is it the second lowest note in the show, after Javerts ‘You’ll wear a different cha-in’ in Confrontation?

P.S WHOS EXCITED THAT PHILIP QUAST IS PLAYING THE BISHOP

I’m currently collecting a list of best quotes from les mis. I’m sharing them with the cast of my local production so I try to alternate quotes that are funny or unhinged with quotes that are profound or moving. What are your favourites?

Some of the ones I’ve pulled are:

- So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
- Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII!
-General, I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife who is in labour.
-The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to die.
-You've got a beard like a man, mother, but I have claws like a woman
-“this barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.”
-"A pretty woman! But badly dressed" "Bah! He does not mean me. I am well dressed and ugly."
-“He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.”
-What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul!
-You are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it.
-The beautiful is a useful as the useful. More so, perhaps.
-Both had wings, the one like an angle, the other like a goose.
-Courfeyrac: What are you? Marius: A democrat-Bonapartist. C: The grey hue of a reassured rat.
-Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people."
-The toad always has his eyes fixed on heaven in order to watch the bird in its flight.
-Citizen, my mother is the Republic.
-Marius had two friends
-Marius was at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow and well-opened and passionate nostrils.
-E: Are you good for anything? R: "I have a vague ambition in that direction." "You do not believe in everything." "I believe in you." "Grantaire will your do me a service?" "Anything. I'll black your boots." "Well don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your absinthe." (…) "I can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in hand." "Be serious" "I am wild." "Grantaire, I consent to try you."
-I have come to sleep with you.
-"We are going to fling the government to the earth." "That is good."
-Laisgle and Joly lived together, ate together, slept together. They had everything in common, even Joly's mistress
-Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of living, and of dying.
-A National Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying "It seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower."
-It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

I am looking for the so-called confederate translation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. The translator, known only as A. F., pirated the Wilbour translation and heavily revised it for an American audience during the civil war. It was published in Richmond, Virginia in 1863, and released in five volumes. It was published by West & Johnson.

I have a PDF, but I would like to find a physical copy. It is the only full English translation that I do not own. Unfortunately, copies are rare now as this edition was never reprinted.

If anyone knows of any copies for sale or at least has an idea of where to look, please let me know.

So I have the Canterbury Classsics (Hard Bound) version of the book, and to my very limited research, there are quite a number of people that are saying that the Hapgood translation is not the best.

How bad is it? (Context: I have not read the book yet, and I will start reading the unabridged version of Le Miserables this weekend.)

I’m just worried because I also read some post (although not a lot) that some translations don’t carry over the meaning and the feeling that the novel/Hugo wants to give his readers.

Hi all - taking my daughter to see this soon in the west end and I was wondering if it is the traditional turntable stage or not? Forgive me if this has been answered already I can’t find it!

Eponine is my fav character in the musical and I’m always curious to know who other people’s favourite portrayals are. Lea Salonga is up there for me but my personal favourite is Samantha Barks (She and Aaron Tveit are lowkey the only reason I watched the 2012 movie) and I really love Nathania Ong in the role as well

Hello everyone, this is one of my first few times posting to Reddit. Am not too sure how this works but will give it a try!

I am writing this from Singapore; I am a Eurasian and have lived here since a young age. I absolutely love Les Mis and watched it excitedly in 2016 when it came to Singapore; I have watched Les Mis (and other musicals) on Broadway and the West End; I am a huge musical theatre fan. I was really excited when Les Mis The Arena Spectacular came to our shores in March 24 May - I was looking forward to seeing Lea Selonga perform live as Madame Thenardier, and as Nathania Ong (a local Singaporean Asian actress) as Eponine.

I was swept up by the songs in the first act, which touched a deep chord in my heart. Imagine my shock when, during the intermission, a tall male usher wearing glasses came to me and in a harsh, loud and punitive tone, shouted at me to stop singing as patrons were allegedly complaining about me. I was taken aback, as I thought I was just mouthing the lyrics. I felt mortified and I apologised. The usher did not make further eye contact with me, and walked away before I could finish my sentence.

Thereafter during the second act, I found myself frozen to the seat - I was unable to sing, to move, to concentrate on the show. I did not even dare to clap after each song. Despite paying an expensive SGD 230+ per ticket, sititing at the front, I was unable to enjoy the show and sat there quietly, turned to stone. A faithful patron of the arts, I had looked forward to Les Mis with high expectations and the experience was ruined by the callous approach of one single staff member. I am shocked and disappointed by the delivery/approach of this service staff, and saddened that it appears to be extremely wrong to sing during a musical.

I suppose I also need to take some responsibility for my actions as I did not realise I would be such a disruption, and perhaps I may have gotten carried away because Les Mis is a favorite musical of mine. I do apologise for my actions. I have attended musicals for the past 20-odd years, and this was the first time I had received such a complaint. My experiences attending musicals abroad was that patrons were singing along to the tune of the songs, and sometimes swaying to the beat. Patrons were standing up and clapping wildly during the encore. Perhaps the social etiquette in Singaporean Asian musicals is different - no one around me appeared to be singing along, some patrons were munching pop-corn, and most of the folks around me were sitting quietly in their seats. No one rose during the curtain call despite the thunderous applause all across the concert hall. I tried my best to fit in, but I guess in the midst of everything I forgot to "blend in" and started swaying to the songs.

I don't think this classifies as a AITA post - I guess I'm just looking for a safe space to share how I sincerely felt, and also express my deep disappointment for not being able to enjoy a musical that I have loved dearly. I think the feedback carries much truth; it is the delivery of the feedback that didn't really land well with me. I hope my experience attending a Singapore musical is an exception and not the norm, and I will do my best to be respectful of other patrons in future.

Thank you, fellow Redditors, for listening. Do go gentle with me. I look forward to attending Les Mis live again (when I have the courage to!)

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