Les Miz 2012 ... :D (no spoilers)

[XCashier]

Quoth fireheart

Isn't it the case that in some versions, Fantine only sells her hair, not her teeth as well? I thought the teeth thing came from the novel, not the musical.

(From what I've seen, when schools and the like perform it, the girl who plays Fantine usually wears a wig )

In the book, she sells her hair and her front teeth. Don't know where the bit about the locket came from; I'm guessing it takes too long to properly apply toothblack on stage so they had to have her sell something else. Not sure why they changed it to her back teeth in the movie, unless it's too difficult to SFX out teeth. (Or, it'd be too obvious that her teeth aren't really gone if she's singing clearly.)

Generally, if the actress playing Fantine has short hair, they'll put her in a wig, have her go offstage during the appropriate verse in "Lovely Ladies" and remove the wig. If the actress has long hair, they'll tuck the hair under a bonnet.

[FormerCallingCardRep]

Quoth XCashier

Generally, if the actress playing Fantine has short hair, they'll put her in a wig, have her go offstage during the appropriate verse in "Lovely Ladies" and remove the wig. If the actress has long hair, they'll tuck the hair under a bonnet.

What we did when our group did Les Miz was the girl that played Fantine actually wore a long wig, went off stage and changed to a short wig. The reasoning behind this was we were working with a small cast and all of the main characters doubled as sailers, workers, prostitutes ect with the exception of Jean Valjean and Javert. Little Bits, in addition to playing Eponine was also a poor women in the scene with End of the Day with a bonnet over her hair and was a prostitute in Lovely Ladies and Master of the House wearing a red wig.

[jedimaster91]

Just got back from seeing it. I've seen the stage show before, and the movie I think did a good job comparatively. I actually liked Russell Crowe as Javert, though I do wish he'd had a bit more umph in places. And I adore Hugh Jackman, but I thought Valjean was slightly outside his vocal range. Especially "Bring Him Home" sounded like he was straining a bit to hit some of those high notes. Neither bothered me enough to not watch the movie again.

I did manage to get through it without crying, but Li'l Sis was bawling enough for both of us.

[Moirae]

This movie made me bawl like a baby by the end. Wonderfully done.