I don't have a Les Miz icon yet

[heidi]

I am fascinated that they chose I Dreamed a Dream as the song for the first trailer. It's such a sad and tragic song, and Anne Hathaway sings it beautifully - as I understand it all the songs were recorded live during the filming, which is amazing and rare - but unless you already know and love Les Miz, will this trailer bring you into it?

But so many people around the world have seen Les Miz already, on stage, or on one of the DVDs, is there really anyone who'll see the movie as soon as it's released, who hasn't already at least seen one of the concert versions on YouTube or tv? It's an interesting marketing approach, and I'm curious to see the trade press perspective on it.

Regardless, it's LES MIZ! With an amazing cast! In December!

I've seen Avengers seven times so far, and I think that's my record for the most times I've seen a particular film in theaters - PoA was the prior winner, with six - but it's very possible that Les Miz may take the title, if not by the end of the year then by my birthday in January.

Can I preorder the cast recording on iTunes yet?

How about now?




Now?

Seriously, the first time I saw Les Miz, I was fifteen years old, it wasn't on Broadway yet, and my parents took me to see it in the West End and I started crying about ten notes into I Dreamed a Dream and I didn't stop until about an hour after the show ended and we were at dinner and my mom gave me wine to try and calm my crying.

I've seen it on stage sixteen times since then - once every year of college with classmates, on Broadway, and from the second to last row in London, in Miami and LA and on DVD and tv and youtube and back in the days when I had a battery-powered walkman, if it ran out of batteries, I would just sing the libretto in my head.

I don't have one single favorite musical - Joseph and Into the Woods and Chess all transport me in different ways - but Les Miz will always be my mental, emotional and social go-to hearts-in-my-eyes show, and I cannot wait to see this version of it.

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[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Going around Christmas/New Years is expensive as, but going the week after actually isn't too bad....

Yes, I'm looking at prices....

The main issue is that Florida is far enough away that going "for a few days" seems a bit silly - it's a 9+ hour plane ride each way. If you lived in Europe, I'd be there in a heartbeat! :)

Let me think about it. If we STILL haven't moved by the time autumn/winter rolls around I might just need something to look forward to to cheer me up. And this would be... well, amazing.

(I can't believe I'm actually thinking seriously about this!)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Well, so stay for a week. What about the week before Xmas? It opens here on the 12th, so if you came earlier that week...

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

So tempting!!! Like you said, especially since we missed out on meeting in NYC.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've thought about it, and talked to Lars about it.

Here's the deal. I really, really, really, really, really want to move. It's getting rather ridiculous how much I want to move. I've thought up a plan to get Lars to agree to it (see my latest post), and if that works out (fingers crossed) it might just happen sometime this year. If that's the case, I'm afraid I won't have neither the money nor the vacation time necessary.

However, if it doesn't work out - Lars disagrees, the bank says no, what have you - then I'll have both the time and the money PLUS a desperate need to do something out of the ordinary to cheer myself up... and in that case, I would LOVE to come! :)

I realize that this pretty much amounts to telling you that you're plan B, and that's REALLY not my intention! I hope you can understand and forgive me for it :-/

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I would love to be your fallback option! <3!!

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

You're a darling! Thank you :) ♥