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Pieces of Cait

@thepiecesofcait / thepiecesofcait.tumblr.com

Help I've fallen into an obsession with a bunch of fictional French revolutionaries and I can't get up. I draw a lot and write a little. Sometimes I even remember to update my Redbubble with stuff from here!
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alilsakurablossom

despite not being a cat, courfeyrac is Thomas o'malley in my head

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pilferingapples

Hey, what do you mean, he's not a cat?

Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called the beaute du diable of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws.-3.4.1, Hapgood

Looks to me like he's a cat! Ain't no line in the whole Les Miserables that says Courfeyrac isn't a cat! XD

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secretmellowblog

Courfeyrac a confirmed canon Catboy???

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pilferingapples

Find me anything in the book that proves Courfeyrac doesn't look like this

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thepiecesofcait

That Courf-cat outfit was stuck in my head all day, the only way out was to draw it.

#the brainrot was real with this one#CourfeyCat#Triumvirate#Enjolras#Combeferre#Courfeyrac#Les Amis#Barricade Boys#Cait Makes#Digital Art
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In our final week of shows we all came down to the theatre one night to take group shots from any major ensemble scenes in full costume, to make sure we could all appreciate the fully-lit efforts of the costume team for years to come.

This was our biggest group - the Beggars in Paris. It's still only about half of our cast. The full cast were genuinely never all in the same room at the same time!

#Cait Directs Les Mis#Community Theatre#Volunteers#I love everyone on this stage with my whole heart#Beggars#Les Miserables#Les Mis#Musical Theatre#Canon Era#Photography#cait makes
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the-great-kraken

one thing that really annoys me about a lot of les mis productions is their insistence on making the les amis de l'abc older than they are. i know it's partly a schematics thing with hiring younger actors, but to me so much of the tragedy behind the barricade comes from the fact they were kids. they were college students staring at a future they despised, desperate to change it, and they - and the hope they had for a kinder future - were slaughtered. i mean, hell, the musical talks about it! all the time! javert calls them schoolboys, turning is the mothers of paris staring at corpses of boys who could have been their sons, cosette eponine and marius are kids lost in their first loves. idk it seems like such a minor thing but to me it's so core to what makes this story so devastating

#by virtue of our local Les Mis production being the first big musical in my town in 10 years#and me wanting to let everyone who wanted to be part of it Be Part Of It#3/4s of my Amis were under 18#(several of them were under 14 ^^)#and after weeks of getting pretty numb to the barricade scene while directing the blocking and pacing#let me tell you it absolutely knocked me for six the first time we ran it with injury-reaction noises#We're a small town#there is one kid that screams in our recording who i held as a newborn baby#it haunts me#(he played Bossuet)#Les Miserables#Les Amis
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wanderinghedgehog

Just watched a recording of a community theater production of Les Mis. It has taught me three things. Small theaters are great actually, the acting is best when people are having fun, and it’s kinda funny when they stage Javert’s suicide so that he falls from the back of the bridge instead of the front and they put a mattress behind the wall so the actor doesn’t die but when he falls the audience can hear very clearly the sound of him hitting the mattress.

#we spent weeks tryibg to time our Javert's crash mat hit with The Only Big Note That Might Hide It#but the adrenline of the audience actually being there#threw both our Javerts off (of a bridge badumtss)#and so we embrace the necessary evil#of the mat that lets them fly <3#i miss my show so much
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So about five weeks out from opening we had our OG Grantaire experience some Life Stuff that meant they were unable to continue in a role with solos (we kept them on as Mabeuf!) and, seeing as we had already cast everyone else comfortable singing by themself between our dual cast leads, it didn't take too much convincing for me to jump into my favourite character's role.

Grantaire is no where near my range, and I stress-sang this solo about 30 times each night before curtains up, but it's mine and I'm so fond, and I did not at all realise how visible the talk with Enjolras up the back of the stage was but that hair-flip makes me cackle and one day I WILL animate it.

Shout out to this scene being responsible for my mom asking me - after we watched this footage for the first time with the cast - exactly what the relationship between Grantaire and Enjolras was. Such a great conversation that didn't at all have me praying for a localised asteroid touch down.

#Grantaire my trashiest beloved#Please notice the bisexual lighting#It was so very very late at night after so so many hours of programming lighting cues#when I looked up from where I had been trying to emulate a sunset across the back wall#only to realise that my fade from yellow to orange to pink to purple to blue#had just happened to end on the last three at SUCH a splendid moment#Grantaire#Enjorlas#Les Amis de l'ABC#Barricade Boys#Drink With Me#Enj and I had a slightly different bicker every night#My fave was the night he came up and just said “dude what the fuck?” in the most long suffering voice I'd ever heard#Cait Directs#Musical Theatre#Community Theatre#Youtube
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Here's a look at the opening of the Cafe scene from our production of Les Mis last year! (a behind-the-scenes of the set up before the curtains open can be found here!)

#I miss my show so much#I am finally at a stage where I can look back at the footage without just weeping at the weird grief of knowing that it's really over#and so I have Many Snippets To Share#ABC Cafe#Les Amis de l'ABC#Les Miserables#Musical Theatre#Community Theatre#Cait Directs Les Mis#Enjolras#Combeferre#Feuilly#Courfeyrac#Grantaire#Youtube
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