tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2914596831626388795.post6019595647671424509..comments2015-10-09T06:44:17.593-07:00Comments on 52 Scriptures in 52 Weeks: Show #47 "Sex In Seattle 18: An Everyday Kind of Love" with SIS ProductionsAya Hashiguchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03791743258205576346noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2914596831626388795.post-89958568377304032922010-09-18T16:13:07.403-07:002010-09-18T16:13:07.403-07:00Dear Theatre Pal
We're just back from seeing ...Dear Theatre Pal<br /><br />We're just back from seeing Les Mis at the Barbican (in London), where Les Mis started 25 years ago.<br /><br />I thought you'd like to be the first to hear about the 25th anniversary production; it's had a make-over!<br /><br />Cameron McIntosh has a completely new production, with new design, direction and orchestration.<br /><br />The design is the back projected paintings of Victor Hugo, and others inspired by his drawings. Sometimes fixed, sometimes moving.<br /><br />When they move, it is with great effect. For me, simply the best was Javert's death scene. He still jumps from the bridge, but this time the bridge opens and exits both sides of the stage, leaving him floating in the space he had been standing on, downstage with a back projection of the Seine rushing behind him, and eventually he is pulled upstage (still floating in space) falling backward down into the river (which swallows him up) with us looking down from on top, and he gets smaller as he falls (and is pulled upstage). Amazing. I could have applauded that effect alone.<br /><br />There is No revolve. Let me say that again - no revolve.<br /><br />The chain-gang are at sea, pulling on the oars of a boat. There's no miming, there's no slow-mo runaway cart...<br /><br />I'll blog it, but it was so good to see a new best friend!<br /><br />ahojMadeInScotlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16565114264116867519noreply@blogger.com