Ça ira pour toujours

[lesmisloony]

For the first time I feel FEELINGS.

As soon as I started watching this my throat got all tight and I felt my heart getting happy and I wanted to bounce around dancing.

COHEN AND ATTIA ARE BACK BITCHES.

I think it's time to be a fan of 1789 on facebook.

ÇA IRA MON AAAAAMOUUUUR! The host family is leaving for the weekend and I plan to dance my ass off to this song the whole time and watch this video forever.

THE COSTUMES

LOOK AT THE COSTUMES

Who cares if the plot is ridiculous? I want COSTUMES and awesome music.

Now I *definitely* have to stay in France next year or I'll miss this show! I'll au pair for another year if I don't find something else.

Comments

[lesmisloony.livejournal.com]

Welp, it's Cohen and Attia. Their job is to reach out to fourteen year olds, not Ravenclaw types. If you want a musical about the actual revolution that's what Boublil and Schönberg's La Revolution Française is for I guess. That one never quite got my attention though... but LM people say it's a good thing. And I hear it's coming back soon or something!

As for Dove and Albert... they're good for dancing around the room singing your head off. There's a plot synopsis up on the Florum; the guy singing is Desmoulins and the hot young guy works for him. The hot young girl works for Marie Antoinette. Ooh.

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

LRF is crack. Complete and utter crack. The best track is totally Marat splashing around in his bath and convincing Charlotte Corday to get naked with him. The best song is Marie Antoinette the night before her execution, but she has no character development other than that song.

I love it to death, but it's not a real musical, despite the Charles/Isabelle love story; they exist mostly to attempt to tie all the crack together as far as I can figure out. Also, one needs a high tolerance for cheesy 70s music, as there is no way in hell "Chouans, en avant" should have become any sort of hit. It's more of a cracktastic concept album that I cannot imagine getting staged with any sort of reasonable flow between scenes.