Les Miserables and speculations at the dinner table.

First off, we arrived almost two hours before the show started so we decided to walk around a bit in the bazaar/ shopping mall. Parents took the fore-front while sis and I made sure to keep at least thirty feet behind. We just walked around window shopping, cruising guys, and eventually bought some delicious tasting gelato. While returning to the entrance to the theater, we saw grandma walking around the mall; dad had told her to stay put so we wouldn't lose her. Well, so much for that.

The show itself... first, the bad. The Vegas Symphony was playing that day at the Rio (a different casino) so much of the orchestra... strike that, all of the orchestra was synthetic. The band was actually there, but the use of faux cello during Eponine's "On My Own" gave it an overtly 80's feel. Gavrouche was completely attrocious! He couldn't act, could barely sing, and had no ennunciation at all. Given he is only 8 years old... but then again the others before him were very talented actors. I think the only reason why he's there in the first place is his father's presence in the cast. Lastly, they cut 15 minutes of music to make the play fit its 3 hour time slot. Nothing too big; took off a few bars and verses on the more unimportant songs, and got rid of Eponine's "I told you I'd do it" before she screams.

Despite it's short-comings, the play itself was extremely well done. The singers portrayed such strong emotion while singing, and Marius was startling attractive. Several interesting things to note: Fantine was a filipino who idolizes Lea Salonga's singing styles and was cast to compensate for the equally short stature of Jean Valjean. Eponine had a smile on her face everytime she sang because, due to some unforeseen happening, the usual Eponine couldn't sing today. So, they picked someone from the annonymous company to take her part. Also, they forgot to switch Javer's wig between those 10 years.

Afterwards, the family ate at the buffet located also in the casino. Food was surprisingly good. I hardly ate much since I was still appetite-less, but the little I did eat was exquisite. Later in the meal I started singing miscellanous broadway tunes while sis lip-sync'd with her hand.

... come to think of it, there wasn't much exchange of conversation at the table except about the show we had just seen. Hn.

Tomor... okay, today. Today I will have to spend much of the hours working on miscellanous projects. Especially my sketchbook for art... great.

And above it all I need more practice driving.