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les miserables review

Les Miserables Review I had the pleasure to view Cheshire Academy's production of Les Miserables, written by Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublilon on Friday February 23 in the Black Box Theatre. Les Miserables starts with a man named Jean Valjean. After serving 19 years for stealing bread, he is released by Inspector Javert. Once he is released he meets a young girl Fantine, a young girl left to take care of a child. Soon after she is forced to leave her child in someone else's care in order to find work to afford the child, she becomes ill. While on her death bed she asks Valjean to care for her daughter, Cosette. The next we see Cosette living in a brothel house where she is being treated very poorly by the masters of the house. Once Valjean finds Cosette, he pays to get her away from the house. Years later Valjean changes his name and becomes mayor of the town. As a young lady, a man named Marius catches sight of her and instantly falls in love. Sadly though, this...
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 This monologue project was very eye opening to me. It helped me realize how much work needs to go into a single scene. This project was quite challenging for me to complete. First and foremost i HATE performing in front of anyone.  So having to do most of this process in front of people was quite the learning curve. I had to accept the fact that mistakes will be made, but the people watching are there to help me fix them. Going along with it liking the crowd, it was hard for me to look up and perform at the same time. When we first performed I was constantly looking down trying to avoid eye contact. My main goal was to just get through all the words correctly and for the scene to be over. By the end of this project I was definitely more comfortable performing in front of people. I think the biggest thing i improved on was my blocking. At first i hardly had any blocking and pretty much just read the lines. By the end I feel I did a lot better job at blocking. I include the tab...

Monologue video

https://youtu.be/pJ2u0Rjh1Zw