Questions people never ask me 4.0

What do you feel about the making of Les Misérables as a musical movie?
Excuse the language but, I'm peeing my pants out of excitement to be honest. Tom Hooper (director of the King's Speech) is going to be the director, can it be any better? Although I can't think of anyone less suitable for Valjean than Hugh Jackman, I'm sure he'll do a decent job.

What I'm least looking forward to however is all the songs cutting (one of my favourite songs in Chicago is Class which they cut) or translating songs into dialogue. I can't bare the thought of cutting out any of these amazing (i'd like to say phenomenal but then you'll just think me weird) songs. But then again they can’t have a 2,5 hr movie with no dialogue so I just have to live with it. Good lord, if they dialogue Red & Black I will strangle someone.

What are your guilty pleasures?
Honestly, I like (perhaps a bit too much) going through things I've blogged/tweet about and photos I've uploaded. From time to time I like scrolling through my tweets/tumblr/blog posts and think hey that's quite funny or wow, I am really sad.

What do you genuinly think about Nick Jonas in Les Misérables?
(Judging from the O2 concert) He's not great because of 3 reasons. 1. He's not a good enough vocalist for musicals 2. He's not a very good actor 3. His performance is overshadowed by all these real show-biz people who are, let's face it, mind-blowingly amazing. Although he's not great I genuinly think he wasn't bad, he just wasn't as good as the others.

Who's this Scott Garnham person you keep talking about?
Why, that's an absolutely splendid question. Thanks for asking (This is Tiffany roleplaying with herself). Scott is a current actor in Les Misérables at West End in London. He currenty plays Feuilly and is understudying Enjolras and Marius. (Very interesting stuff yeah?)

The reason I talk about him, other than that he's plain awesome, is because I'm a really sad person. The most recent time I went and saw Les Mis (27th May to be exact), I for some reason felt compelled to tweet about how awesome Mr Garnham was during 'Drink with Me'. Little did I know that I would wake up to find my tweet retweeted with a comment by Scott himself. There you go! Go ahead and laugh all you want but you're not the one having 3 @mentions from him are ya?!

If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be?
New York or Hong Kong (or backstage at the Queen's theatre in London would also be nice)

How many times have you seen the musical Les Misérables? (actually people ask me this all the time, but I'd just like to accentuate how awesome it is)
4 times, one of which was the 25th Anniversary concert at O2.


(Wait, there was a theme in there somewhere.....)

Yours sincerely,
Tiffany

Enlightened at last

I'm Miserablesized, I'm sitting in my Les Mis t-shirt and singing along to On My Own. I'm serious.

Let me just firstly say, the O2 arena is ENORMOUS! I mean I thought Wembley Arena was big but this was like thrice the size. So my seat was basically at the very top just at the side of the scene. So basically I was sitting above the scene, so I saw the whole scene, the orchestra (I did feel jealous), the choir and so on.

So beside me I got these 2 young girls both wearing a Les Mis t-shirt, the more I heard talk talking the more I felt as a fraud. Why? They were talking about the actors and who they thought were a better Valjean/Cosette etc and how they loved this song and that song. While I knew NONE of the actors and have basically only listened to the songs which Marius is in. I felt like the biggest fraud, because I was there for one purpose and one purpose only, Nicholas Jerry Jonas.

I've never seen the musical and that says a lot, I could bet £1000 that there were people in there that had seen it 5 times or more. So even if I wanted to socialize with the girls beside me I couldn't, one word and my cover would have been blown.

The concert started (not on time which they were very strict about) and it very much like the 10th anniversary with the micstands and the actors coming and going singing the songs. These people are really something else, they're on a whole different level of singing. They are 10 times better than any artist with an album, their voices are truly amazing. Not mentioning the kids, they are just mindblowing. Especially the boy playing Gavroche, he was just sick.

After the excitement attack during the first 2 minutes Nick appeared I could honestly sthought he was really good. But obviously he's not as strong as a singer as the others, but he do have a really nice voice and it was wonderful to watch how into his character he was (makes me even angrier that I couldn't see him in the musical).

What I find refreshing is the really powerful songs to the dark and heavy story. It's gripping and beautiful to watch. The Eponine-Marius relationship is so sad I can actually start cry right here right now. It's official I'm enlightened at last.

(PS. I strongly recommend Red & Black and Empty Chairs At Empty Tables)

Sincerely yours,
Tiffany

Not so miserable anymore

Hey, it's been a while.
As I've been recovering from the horrible fact that the Sweden Democrats made parliament, other stuff have been happening as well.

Firstly, I'd like to announce that I'm going to see Nick Jonas sing Empty Chairs in. real. freaking. life. Yup, I've got tickets to the Les Misérables Concert at the O2 arena next Sunday. I'm beyond excited! You know (you do?) I've been trying to get tickets to the concert since the tickets were released but with no luck (unless I wanted to pay £110) on top of that I was terribly depressed that I couldn't see Nick in the musical.

By some weird force I clicked into Ticketmaster last Friday and just like Harry can fly a broom I found tickets (i.e ones I could afford)! Mixed with overjoy and nervousness I bought the tickets, resulting with me both selecting the wrong delivery method and buying a freakin' insurance I didn't want. Epic win, I know. After an hour of outrage I realized I just had to live with it and learn from my mistakes how stupid they might be.

A friend of mine from Malmö has came to London to start her studies at my Uni. She's living with me for a couple of days until she can move into her student halls. We've been out and about in London as much as we could while the weather has been so great. For example this afternoon was spent in the lovely Hyde Park.


Otherwise I've been trying to go through the huge pile of course books I've borrowed last week. I will not make that mistake to come completely unprepared to a new course again. No siree.

Cheers,
Tiffany

So miserable

The picture speaks for itself doesn't it? And for the kiss everyone was talking about, it's real.

I need a Nick Jonas in my life

Just finished watching the cambio live chat with Nick (note: IN LONDON!!!). Actually I didn't want to watch it because I knew it would make me even more depresed about the whole Nick/London/Les Mis thing but he said he might play his new song (London foolishly) so I basically HAD to watch.

And he did play it. Gosh it's so good. I mean this 17 year old guy comes up with these songs that are absolutely amazing! And he sings them and plays them?! How could this be?! How much talent can really fit into one person?

He also played some Administration songs, 7.05 and I Am What I Am. Me and my sister were just talking about how insane it is he still remember how to play those songs (the latter ones) and the lyrics. I mean Joe basically can't remember any song lyrics that they're not playing on tour. :P Nick is crazy.

I need a Nick Jonas in my life. full stop. the end.

Sad stalker

Me: Nick lives there, like now
My friend: Then it's not far from work
(It's literally 30 seconds from the Queen's theatre)

This was the highlight of the day, beating hot chocolate at Starbucks overlooking Tower Bridge, crossing the Tower Bridge, awesome buffet at China Town and Camden town.

Oh, Nick, if I could I would.

Marius, my dear

Empty Chairs At Empty Tables - Marius (Les Misèrables)

Sorry, I can't really see Nick singing this. XD But I know he'll do fine. This is for everyone who might possibly have missed that Nick is gonna be performing as Marius in Les Misèrables in London this summer.

It breaks my heart that I probably can't see him, because I'll be back in Sweden at that time, i.e 21/6-10/7. It's the crappiest timing ever. Believe me I've been tossing around ideas of how I might be able to stay and watch at least one show, but I don't think it's possible (economically possible). I guess I just have to be satifsfied with the Concert at O2 and a normal Les mis show at the Queen's (this is me acting grown-up).

I get that alot

This is beyond brilliant. Freakin' epic!