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LES MIS being shown @ Regal

Tue, 11 Jan 2005, 04:18 pm
cozza8422 posts in thread
apparantly the On Stage Theatre Company is showing Les Mis at the Regal in June... anyone know anymore about this? any audition dates or ways i could a hold of the director of the company? cheers guys!
~Corey

Re: I won't answer any replies to this, I just want to give my s

Fri, 14 Jan 2005, 12:43 pm
Walter Plinge
Alexis wrote:
>
> Believe me, nobody knows that more than I do. But I am so
> sick of everyone pulling it to pieces. It's over, and what
> has been done with the King and I has been done, regardless
> if you agreed with what happened or not. I don't think the
> understudies should have been sacked, especially since it was
> such a hasty decision, but the performance was bad. I'm not
> blaming anybody, but it was bad, and what needs to be taken
> into account was the fact that the MS Society had never
> produced a show before and did have to answer to their
> sponsors. I'm not sticking up for what they did, all I'm
> saying is that you have to listen to both sides before your
> opinion is truly valid.

So therefore, what exactly IS your "side of the story"? I think Simon was only talking about Les Miserables from a couple of years ago. He didn't even mention The King and I.

> The sad thing is that nobody has acknowledged the money
> raised, only the drama that went on backstage. And the gossip
> behind the set was so much harder to deal with than the show
> itself.

So what you're saying is that as long as money is raised, it doesn't matter what happens to the people who raised it??

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