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TICKETS TO LES MISÉRABLES
TOMORROW

I'm listening to the soundtrack right now.

I cannot wait. Hurrah for birthdays.
(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:33, archived)
Ooh, I'd love to go see that.
I missed Cats, never forgave my Dad for that. I haven't seen any of the big West End shows, not even Wicked.

Edit: Oh, and happy birthday for whenever it is.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:33, archived)
Cats is shit.
Wicked is excellent. I can probably be able to get you great seats (between rows 5 and 10) for about £13 if you fancy?
(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:39, archived)
Cor.
I would have to confirm my holiday times off work, but I might actually take you up on that. I love the soundtrack and everyone raves about it, I'd really love to see it.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:41, archived)
Lovely stuff. Warning you in advance, you'd have to end up sitting next to me, and I usually take up a seat and a half with my massive face.

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:42, archived)
I'll just bend my neck a bit and sit on the chair arm.
It'll be fine.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:45, archived)

MIS DAWSON
(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:36, archived)
LES DAWSONÉRABLES

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:38, archived)
IT DIDN'T SAY THAT BEFORE

(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:39, archived)
I LIKE TO MAKE YOU LOOK A BIT RUBBISH

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:39, archived)
IT WOULD BE REALLY EASY TO RECTIFY
BUT I'M NOT GOING TO
(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:42, archived)
lol
rectum
(I helped save b3ta! sleepybinky, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:43, archived)
oh biiiiinky
*sitcom eye roll*
(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:44, archived)
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
That's our Binky! HAHAHAA!
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:52, archived)
*places finger over lavender alarm button*
do you like lamee and showtunes, too?
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:37, archived)
I don't think liking musicals makes me gay
I think the whole "having sex with men" makes me more gay.

KTHNXBYE.
(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:38, archived)
I was going for camp rather than gay.
camp is a lifestyle choice. Cock or mimsy is a hardwired sexual preference.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:39, archived)
He's AC/DC

(I helped save b3ta! Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:40, archived)
Nice metaphor

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:41, archived)
More Spinal Tap if you ask me.

(I helped save b3ta! Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:43, archived)
Ha!

(I helped save b3ta! Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:48, archived)
*looks at square cheese on round biscuit bewilderingly*

(I helped save b3ta! spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:12, archived)
Ah, I see.
I get very camp when drunk. I'm usually all straight-acting and that. But I do love a good musical theatre show.

I don't like musicals though.

See, I know the difference between the two. Great, eh?
(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:40, archived)
great.

(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:42, archived)
IT'S A VERY COMMON MISTAKE

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:43, archived)
Go, define the difference then.
I take it you'd say that Les Mis is musical theatre, but, say, Annie Hall is a musical, right?
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:45, archived)
HERE WE GO!
Music Theatre is when the story continues in the songs (like big decisions, changes, etc). Les Mis, Wicked and Ha'Penny Opera is full of "decision songs".

Musicals is basically when dialogue happens, then a song confirming the dialogue. If you took the songs out of musicals and just keeps the dialogue in the middle, the story would still make sense. Grease, Joseph, The Sound of Musicfor example. The other type of musical is where it is essentially a list of songs which don't really tell a story. Cats is a good example of this.

However, some musicals have both. Sondheim loves writing musicals where the first act is a Musical and the second act is Music Theatre. A great example of this is Into the Woods.
(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:51, archived)
Did Cats even have proper dialogue?
The DVD I have doesn't seem to have much of it.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:52, archived)
Ah yes...
Two secs.
(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:53, archived)
More details provided

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:56, archived)
Cats was really fucking inane.
"Skimbleshanks, the railway cat, the cat of the railway train". What?

Pretty women in tight furry outfits, though.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:58, archived)
That's what you get when you write a musical based on the ether-induced ramblings of an anti-semetic Victorian gentleman

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:01, archived)
Anti-semetic?

(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:02, archived)
T.S Eliot
Big jew hater
(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:04, archived)
I was desperately trying to think of any jew-hating in Cats.
The nearest you get are the racial slurs with the Pekinese dogs and things.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:06, archived)
I suppose there's always Bustopher Goldstein
the Child-Stealing Feline Yid Bolshevik.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:32, archived)
It's a drug to stop you vomiting.

(I helped save b3ta! Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:05, archived)
i thought it was a ointment used for burns

(I helped save b3ta! Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 11:00, archived)
I don't know anything about this
so I'm taking your word for it, however you realise that sounds awfully like "stroppy highly-strung camp buggers splitting the tiniest hair possible in an attempt to make themselves sound more high-brow" ?

A bit like the whole "it's not Opera unless it's sung in Italian" argument.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:54, archived)
No no...
When I say "I prefer Music Theatre over Musicals" just means "I prefer to pay £35 for a ticket and see a story, rather than just see a camp pantomime which is essentially glorified karaoke". I wanna see acting. Not just your typical "teeth and tits" diva who wants the big musical number to herself at the end.
(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:55, archived)
I see. Fair enough
then carry on, that man.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:56, archived)
:D
I agree with you about the idiots who snub up the whole "it's not Opera unless it's sung in Italian" argument. I go see Opera for the talent. Not to watch something I don't understand.
(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:57, archived)
I watched Faust a few years ago
it was fucking awesome.
(El Guiri the only b3tan who is not fat, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:40, archived)
I so want to get you drunk.
It would be awesome.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:47, archived)
Ooh Les Mis is awesome
*jealous*
(I helped save b3ta! Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:40, archived)

www.b3ta.com/talk/6271936
(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:43, archived)
Nice save

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:43, archived)
i'm the man

(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:45, archived)
I was Javert. Have I mentioned this? I was Javert.

(I helped save b3ta! ArthurTheRat, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 9:58, archived)
Les Gingérables

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:05, archived)
According to many people I was the best thing about the production.
*SMUG*
(I helped save b3ta! ArthurTheRat, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:07, archived)
Did the rest of the special needs kids fuck up Do You Hear The People Sing?

(__, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:08, archived)
The whole thing was brilliant.

(I helped save b3ta! ArthurTheRat, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:10, archived)
Ya big mincebag.
*eats gravel and punches a hooker*
(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:09, archived)
*punches gravel and eats a hooker*

(I helped save b3ta! ArthurTheRat, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:10, archived)
*Punches what he's eating an gravels a hooker*

(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:12, archived)
*hooks a gavel from bowl of punch and eats*

(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:17, archived)
Dude....that's freakin HARDCORE!

(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:21, archived)
X-TREEM!
morning gumbo. how're things?
(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:26, archived)
Good good good. Got a half day today so it's all cool.

(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:28, archived)
i get to leave early because it's the staff barbecue. i'll swing by, grab a burger then high-tail it home
this is the good news
the bad news is, no payrises this year :(
(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:34, archived)
I don't think I know anyone getting a payrise this year apart from a mate who works for HSBC.
sods law.
(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:37, archived)
but i WANT one
don't they understand that?
(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:46, archived)
I'll give you a payrise. I'll put your wallet onto a high shelf for you, ok?

(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:54, archived)