We’re about to start another week of rehearsals I’ve decided to share some more character inspirations. First of all, I saw the Cohoes Music Hall version of Les Miserables this past Friday. It was very very well done and the cast was made up of some outstanding students. If you were fortunate enough to catch this show, you were hopefully energized and given some ideas on developing your own character(s). If you missed the show, I’m hoping to track down a video of a different HS production to share with everyone.

After seeing the Cohoes show, I feel more inspired and fired up about digging into our version of Les Miserables at Greenville. Just a quick reminder that we’re having a leads rehearsal until 5:00 Monday in the HS Auditorium. Be prepared to sing through each of your individual assignments, and also to plow through ‘One Day More’. In my show research I recently ran across something rather unbelievable: A Japanese fighting game based on Les Mis. I know it seems too good to be true but, here’s a link to a site about it. The playable characters are Valjean, Javert, Marius, Eponine, Enjolras, the Thernardiers, a French Police officer, Robo-Jean (yes… Robo-Jean), a creepy guy called Judgement and a weird little bunny with a cup of coffee. I tested this game out today and it was quite enjoyable. Enjolras has a cheap move where he drops a barricade on you out of the sky and apparently French police can shoot fireballs… I had no idea.

Eponine unleashes ‘a little fall of PAIN’ on Enjolras… if you have an internet connection that can handle a 150+ megabyte download, then you can click here to download the game. The install program is in Japanese. so unless you’re computer savvy, I wouldn’t recommend the installation. Anyway, tomorrow’s forecast is calling for some snow. If the unthinkable happens, I’ll send out an e-mail with an updated rehearsal schedule. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!