Les Miserables

I fell in love with this musical even more than I already had before seeing it friday. Oh. My. Goodness! My family has been going to see broadway shows back home since I was little and I used to hate the idea of seeing Les Mis because I was determined to hate it since it was violent.

I was a stupid child. About a year ago, Les Mis went on tour for the 25th anniversary tour and it was on tv. I was somewhat intrigued since I knew we had season tickets and Les Mis was one of the feature shows. Then I found out Nick Jonas was in it and I sat down to watch it. (Please refrain from teasing or ridiculous comments of why this made me sit down and watch it, I'm a teenage girl who grew up with the brothers, you figure it out lol). I was definatly impressed with all the voices and the music was phenominal! I've since been itching to see it. I even got the book to try to read it...that lasted about a week, I mean, have you seen the size of that thing?! And people think Harry Potter books are long...tsk tsk.

If you don't know the story, here's a little sneak peek/spoiler alert.

-Good guy steals a piece of bread, goes to jail for 19 years.

-Good guy released from jail eventually and goes against probation and becomes a successful mayor while the police physcho is trying to catch him.

-Good guy runs into prostitute who basically sells herself so she can provide for her daughter who is staying with 2 crazy people.

-protitute dies, good guy takes care of girl.

-10 or so years later, girl falls in love with boy while poor girl is already in love with boy. yikes.

-police guy finds good guy while good guy still on the run. French Revolution.

-ending: war kills people. good guy dies, boy and girl get married after other boys die and poor girl gets shot. the last words that good guy sings that sums up the whole musical "To love another person, is to see the face of God" BIBLICAL MEANING! Brownie points :)

So, if that was as confusing as I'm assuming it was, go on wikipedia if you're interested. The musical, not the book, unless you would like to be even more confused! well, thats what happened to me.

Besides the music being freaking amazing, the set....words cannot describe how awesome it was! Everything was set on an angle which added to the depth of the stage. All the sets came together and separated throughout the whole production, creating different scenes from the ones they started with. I wish I had a picture to show you but I couldn't find one. It's was incredible for showing in Toledo Ohio and not New York.

*sigh* what a great evening.

Any fans??? Anyone seen it? :)