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I went to see a stage version of Les Mis (not the musical, an original theatre production) done by a little community theatre company so they only had 6 actors total, which meant that a whole bunch of roles had to be doubled up. They only could have Grantaire in one scene since the same actor played Javert and his only line was after Courfeyrac and Enjolras finished their inspiring speech to the amis, 

“Wait friends I have just one more thing to add–I’m hungry, I’m going to lunch”.

This sounds amazing?? Do you remember any other specifics? I want to hear all of it:D

Yes I do! I loved the adaptation a lot, really faithful to the book and the BEST Marius I have ever seen he was such a dweeb. When he was “flirting” (see: staring from a distance) with Cosette, Cosette eventually went up to him and was like “why do you look but never speak to me? Why do you turn away?” and then she ran back to Valjean and Marius DRAMATICALLY fell on the ground and was like “OH MY HEART, OUR FIRST QUARREL” even though he literally didn’t say a word. 

Other highlights: 
-Valjean and the Bishop were played by the same dude stepping either to the left or to the right when he had to be the other character 
-The guy who played Thenardier was also Tholomyes and Courfeyrac, and for bows he changed out of his ridiculous Thenardier disguise and back into Courf
-Fantine, Cosette, and Enjolras were all the same actress
-During that scene where Marius looks through the hole in the wall, Claquesous got punched offstage and came back two seconds later as Valjean it was great
-During the scene where the barricade falls there was only like four actors able to be on stage so they just had to keep dying over and over again for effect
-Eponine was PERFECT she was just the right amount of crass/innocent and I swear all of her lines were straight out of the book 

Wait wait one more thing: 
-the barricade was literally a bunch of ikea chairs stacked on top of each other

FANTINE AND ENOLRAS (and Cosette??) WERE THE SAME ACTRESS, I NEED A DVD

if you see them again please give them all my applause that I can’t be there to give, wow

Thank you for talking about it, too!