At the very first screening if Les Miz movie in Las Vegas with Michael and John G.
Very excited to see it 🙁
One movie going comment though: I’m amazed at how many people but so much at the concessions stand. Folks are walking in here with trays full meals of food. Just kind of a lot it seems.
Plus eating distracts from the movie. At least it does for me.
Anyway, the movie’s starting and I’m happy. I guess if all that food makes it better, then pop that corn.
Happy happy, kids!
p.s. Movie is over. And it’s fabulous. Audience ended up being packed. And I’ve rarely heard an audience be so visibly moved. Definitely a must see, folks.
Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean sings the ballad about discovering paternal love for Fantine’s abandoned child Cosette, seamlessly fitting into the rest of the score as if it had always been there since the musical opened on Broadway in 1987.
This Christmas, the epic musical comes to the big screen.
Helmed by The King’s Speech’s Academy Award®-winning director, Tom Hooper, Les Misérables stars Hugh Jackman, Oscar® winner Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried
Colm Wilkinson, who was the first Jean Valjean, and Frances Ruffelle, who created the part of Eponine, have been given feature roles in the movie.
Wilkinson will play the Bishop of Digne. ‘He shows Valjean the road ahead, after Valjean has robbed him of silver candlesticks,’ says Cameron Mackintosh, who produced the musical on stage and who is also involved with Working Title and Universal in making the picture, which Oscar-winner Tom Hooper will direct.
Wilkinson, who played Valjean in London and on Broadway, said that as he takes on the role of the bishop, his journey with Les Miserables has ended ‘and I have come full circle’.
Cameron also revealed that Ruffelle will play ‘the most fabulous whore’ in the movie, and while she won’t have a song of her own, she will be part of the group of prostitutes who sing the number Lovely Ladies.
Some 27 years after Les Miserables was first staged at the Barbican, the show is still running — now at the Queens in the West End.
Russell Crowe, playing Inspector Javert, will also be arriving next week, along with Anne Hathaway (Fantine), Eddie Redmayne (Marius), Amanda Seyfried (Cosette) and Aaron Tveit (Enjolras).
