Watching Les Miserables on stage

Several months ago, I put up a blog post asking about seating for watching Les Miserables on stage.  I finally got to see it a couple of weeks ago.

I ended up getting orchestra level seats for the show, and I felt it was well worth the cost.  The entire experience was so wonderful, it was almost surreal, and almost indescribable by words.  It was so enjoyable that I'll probably buy tickets the next time the show comes into town.

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on what seats to get.  It made my first experience with watching Les Miserables on stage a wonderful one.

In other news, Porphy episodes 45 and 46 are about to go through pre-encode checks, and I'm translating Porphy 47 right now.  Little Women II episode 25 is at timing, and we'll have a couple of Perrine episodes ready for encoding soon as well.

A bit of a question for everyone

This is a question not really related to fansubbing, but more of a personal question that I would like to pose to everyone.

The Les Miserables US tour is coming to around where I live in May, and I would like to purchase tickets to the performance.  As I have never went to a performance of this kind, I would like opinions about what seats I should get.

The concert hall where the performance will be held has a huge "orchestra" lower level seating, a lower balcony above this lower level that wraps around half of the concert hall, and a much higher upper balcony that is above this lower balcony.

Currently, the ticket office for this venue is not selling tickets (they won't start selling until February), but I can get tickets from other ticket vendors.  I can get seats in the back of the upper balcony for about US$70, seats on the sides of the each balcony for about US$150, and seats in front of each balcony and in the front orchestra seats for about US$250.

Basically, which seats should I go for when I purchase my tickets?  (I may purchase multiple tickets depending on what happens.)

Batch torrent for Les Miserables

A batch torrent is available for Les Miserables.  The contents of this torrent consists of all the episodes done by Aoi-Anime, Wasurenai, and Licca.

If you have the files, please assist in seeding this torrent. 

Thank you in advance.

Les Miserables Episode 52 released!

Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no longer moved.

He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him.

His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to cover his hands with kisses.

He was dead.

The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul.

- Les Miserables, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 5

In the final episode, Jean Valjean is dying, and asks to see Marius and Cosette.

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This concludes our work with Wasurenai on Les Miserables: Shoujo Cosette.  As per my usual practice, I would like to make some concluding remarks.

First, I would like to thank all the other groups that have worked on this series.  Their efforts have paved the way for us to finish.

Second, I would like to thank the folks at Wasurenai for all the manpower and support to this series.  To have the dedication to finish a series of this length is simply not easily found.

Third, I would like to thank everyone who has supported us in our efforts.

There will be a batch torrent of all of our episodes, plus the episodes that Aoi-Anime worked on.  That should be out tomorrow.  I also expect that BakaBT will have someone offering this as well.

Les Miserables Episode 51 released!

"An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing."

"I am listening."

"His name is Jean Valjean."

"I know it."

"I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is."

"Say on."

"He is an ex-convict."

"I know it."

"You know it since I have had the honor of telling you."

"No. I knew it before."

- Les Miserables, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 4

 

 

 

Thenardier's last attempt at extortion ends in failure, as Javert comes on the scene.  This is a deviation from the novel. 

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Les Miserables Episode 7 released!

 

In this episode, a traveling merchant from Paris stops by the inn and causes some unexpected trouble.  In the meantime, Fantine has resorted to pawning off items and trying to find any work she can....

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Les Miserables Episode 6 released!

Cosette's birthday is coming up soon, but things go from bad to worse for both Fantine and Cosette.

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Les Miserables Episode 50 released!

Marius and Cosette are getting married!

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Les Miserables Episode 5 released!

The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs would be broken in five minutes more.

"It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to the peasants, who were staring at him.

"We must!"

"But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?"

"Well!"

"Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!"

Not a man in the group stirred.

- Les Miserables, Volume 1, Book 5, Chapter 6

In this episode, Mayor Madeleine lifts the wagon that was pinned against Fauchelevent.  Fantine's coworkers become even more suspicious, and Cosette is involved in a bit of a misunderstanding between her and Eponine.

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Les Miserables Episode 49 released!

This episode is not in the novel.  Cosette and Gavroche go on a trip so Cosette can learn more about Fantine and visit her mother's grave.

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Les Miserables Episode 4 released!

Madame Thenardier was vicious with Cosette. Eponine and Azelma were vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size is smaller; that is all.

A year passed; then another.

People in the village said:—

"Those Thenardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!"

- Les Miserables, Volume 1, Book 4, Chapter 3

In this episode, Cosette learns how to read her name and we see how Fantine's activities after work start raising suspicion.

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Les Miserables Episode 48 released!

Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. 

- Les Miserables, Volume 5, Book 5, Chapter 4

Marius proposes to Cosette... and she accepts.  We will see the wedding really soon!

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Les Miserables Episode 47 released!

M. Gillenormand went on:

"Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Arme, No. 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her."

- Les Miserables, Volume 5, Book 5, Chapter 3

In this episode, Marius and Cosette meet again since Marius went to the barricades.

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Les Miserables Episode 3 released!

This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the spectator's attention.

His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police.

At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post which he occupied to the protection of M. Chabouillet, the secretary of the Minister of State, Comte Angeles, then prefect of police at Paris. When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine.

Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness.

- Les Miserables, Volume 1, Book 5, Chapter 5

In this episode, Gavroche and Cosette meet Chou Chou, which you know plays a pivotal part in the last part of the series.  In addition, Mayor Madeleine meets Javert, the police inspector assigned to his town.  Javert is already becoming suspicious, though...

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Les Miserables Episode 46 released!

For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the dog who finds his master again.

He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one?

His situation was indescribable.

To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should accumulate upon him,—this was what overwhelmed him.

- Les Miserables, Volume 5, Book 4, Chapter 1

For the first time in his life, Javert is not sure of his ideals of justice.  We will see how he deals with it in this episode.

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Les Miserables Episode 2 released!

At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. Myriel, Bishop of D——, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two.

The Bishop of D—— to supply here a detail which the papers omitted—had been blind for many years before his death, and content to be blind, as his sister was beside him.

- Les Miserables, Volume 1, Book 5, Chapter 4

This is one of the early episodes that we are redoing.  In this episode, we see Mayor Madeleine react to the news of Bishop Myriel's death, and how he is carrying on his legacy.  We also see how, at the same time, how Cosette and Gavroche deal with the rather absurd favoritism the mother has towards Eponine and Azelma.

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Les Miserables Episode 45 released!

The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water. Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of night.

Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse.

- Les Miserables, Volume 5, Book 3, Chapter 6

This episode is the famous sewer escape scene. 

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Les Miserables Episode 44 released!

And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him:

"Do you permit it?"

Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile.

This smile was not ended when the report resounded.

Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed.

Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. 

- Les Miserables, Volume 5, Book 1, Chapter 23

A lot happens to a lot of people in this episode.  First, we have Jean Valjean letting Javert go, while Javert shows why his ideals of justice are so unyielding.  Then, we have Cosette rescuing Gavroche (which is different from the novel).  Unfortunately for the Friends of ABC, the National Guard is wheeling up a second cannon, and the revolution appears doomed....

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Les Miserables Episode 43 released!

The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, short as it was.

This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful to Gavroche.

- Les Miserables, Volume 5, Book 1, Chapter 15

 

In this episode, we see another example of Jean Valjean's superhuman strength, and probably one of the bravest events yet, namely Gavroche trying to scavenge ammunition.

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