Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
BroadwayAbridged
Stand-by Joined: 2/2/07
#1Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 3:59pm
or, "HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE FRENCH".
I'm making an attempt at going back and abridging some of the shows that I never got to. I guess that leaves Phantom and Rent as the other two "obvious" ones...
Les Mis: Abridged
- Gil
http://www.broadwayabridged.com
#2re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:02pmI love you.
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"Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
#2re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:21pm
Awesome job! I especially loved the part where the audience loves the Thernardiers, and then Cameron Mackintosh comes on to sell merchandise 
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#3re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:26pm
hehe, I just read the ACL one, that was very funny.
I love your site! I read the Little Women one a while ago and I loved that one! You're very funny!
I'll have to read the Les Mis one now.
Great job on all of these!!
~Darci
#4re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:29pmSo this is a regular length show now? lol. Nice.
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#5re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:31pm
Funny!!
I love when Pro-V dies and gets beamed up to heaven and she says, "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!"
"Theater is not only the meeting place of all the arts, but the return of art to life." -- Oscar Wilde
Updated On: 8/7/07 at 04:31 PM
#6re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:45pm
We never really specify. It seems to be the same disease
that Lucy, Kim, Charity and other musical females have:
HOOKER WITH A HEART OF GOLD.
Oh my God, I love it.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#7re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 5:09pm
That was absolutely HILARIOUS. And covered all the important parts succinctly and accurately too. 
Gangway, world, get off of my runway.
- Mama Rose, Gypsy
A bird cage I plan to hang,
I'll get to that someday...
A bird cage for a bird who flew away
Around the world.
- Edie, Grey Gardens
- Mama Rose, Gypsy
A bird cage I plan to hang,
I'll get to that someday...
A bird cage for a bird who flew away
Around the world.
- Edie, Grey Gardens
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#8re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 5:29pmThese always make me laugh! They're great!
#9re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 5:55pmThis one might be my favorite! Great job!!
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
#10re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 5:58pm
these are brilliant.
are you getting them published any time soon?
that's a really big mic...
BroadwayAbridged
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#11re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 6:05pm
are you getting them published any time soon?
I'm slowly, slowly planning on it. I'll need to be writing and using the ones that people know in order to make it marketable. That means more of doing these classic shows I saw ages ago instead of the current practice of abridging the new stuff.
What helps is that I need to get more and more of these done for the Broadway Bullet radio scripts, and they also should be a bit more wide-ranging, so it's an impetus to, say, pick up Les Mis again.
Rent's next. Helps that I'm going back to see Rapp and Pascal.
- Gil
http://www.broadwayabridged.com
#12re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 6:40pm
You should seriously consider doing The Drowsy Chaperone, hehe. I think that would be a funny one.
~Darci
#13re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 6:41pmHa. That was great. It's my favorite one so far.
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#14re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 7:30pm
Really. Really. Super Duper. Definitely one of your best.
I can't remember all the things that made me lolz, so since I've just finished reading the end I'll say my favorite line is:
MARIUS
Your father wanted me to pretend I didn't know where he was.
COSETTE
But why, Papa?
JEAN VALJEAN
I was tired of your sh!t.
Eagerly awaiting Rent...
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(Emanuel Azenberg)
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#15re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 9:56pm
They sing at the same time a lot.
THIS is how MEN fight in a MUSICAL!
Ha! Brilliant! I love it.
"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"
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#16re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 9:58pm
My favorite would have to be The Woman in White. It's absolutely hilarious.
I am a fan of your Les Mis one now, too!
How to properly use its/it's:
Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
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#18re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:35pmOh God, that was fantastic. I'd love to see you abridge RENT!
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#19re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:23pmI heard Wicked abridged on the Broadway Bullet podcast and I loved it! I'm going to have to go and read this one now.
<--Sometimes it's easier to get out of a jam than into one
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Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:19amWUNDABAR!
PLEASE! Do not post anything negative or dramatic! DidYouReallyHearMe has LOST the ability to ignore such posts and he will comment! Please, help him.
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With Clay Aiken in Spamalot, all of Broadway is singing a collective "There! Right! There!" -Me-
"Not Barker, Todd is the only person I've ever known who could imitate Katherine Hepburn...in print." -nmartin-
#21re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:22am
JEAN VALJEAN
I'm the man who looked on while my morally corrupt Foreman fired you, and then did nothing while you fell to a life as a whore, ultimately contracting the fatal, crusty disease that will cause you to die in about six, seven minutes tops.
FANTINE PRO-V
Oh.
(pause)
Will you raise my child?
*dies laughing*
#22re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/8/07 at 1:25amMy Fav by far are the crappy set piece representing the cart and javerts death
You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.
#23re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/8/07 at 11:41am
bump.
I loved this one, Gil. Among your best offerings. I wrote on my own blog 2 years ago how much I looked forward to you returning to the "classics." You didn't let me down. Good work.
amalou
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#24re: Broadway Abridged Presents: Les Miserables
Posted: 8/8/07 at 11:17pm
" Oh Cosette, come here and let your crazy blind it-hurts-when
I-pee mother take care of you."
I hurt from laughing so hard! haha!
"French People is Magic!"
"But I can tell you that Raoul, who was so handsome in "The Phantom," is now a drunken wreck."
Updated On: 8/8/07 at 11:17 PM
