Pages Tagged “Les Misérables”
Les Misérables
- Welcome I first read Les Misérables in my teens. I've come back to it twice as an adult, reading different translations and bringing new thoughts to - and from - the experience each time.
- Commentary on the Novel I first read Les Misérables back in the early 1990s. I read it again 20 years later, writing a running commentary along the way, and again 5 years after that.
Blog Posts
- Les Mis / Chess: Cosette vs Florence (and Eponine)
Judy Kuhn sings both Florence on the Broadway cast album of Chess and Cosette on the Broadway cast album of Les Misérables. My recent Chess-listening binge got me thinking about the two roles, how much stronger a character Florence is (at least when looking at the stage version), and how Eponine’s greater degree of agency […]
- Flash and Les Mis in the Golden Age of Radio and Comics
Two of my fan interests sort of intersected with a pair of articles I wrote last night: Flash Comics and Les Misérables in the late 1930s/early 1940s.
- No More Origin Stories
It’s bothered me for a long time that movie studios seem to think the only story worth telling about a superhero is the origin. You get a trilogy if you’re lucky, then back to another origin take. It would be like only ever running the pilot of every TV show even though they’re designed to […]
- Les Mis: Looking Back at the Book
A snarky but affectionate review of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables has made me think about re-reading the novel for the first time in 20 years.
- 2000
Hard to believe it, but this is the 2,000th post on this blog. In celebration, here’s looking back at…the year 2000!
- Frozen Shows
I ordered tickets for an upcoming production of The Phantom of the Opera (the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical) and something occurred to me: In all likelihood it’s going to be an exact replica of the 22-year-old London production (with a few concessions to the realities of touring). When did this start happening? Most of the […]