[Kitsa]

I wrote a big long thing right now and it probably came off as a bit pissy, but have no fear because someone messaged me on Facebook at the same time and for some reason that completely fucking wiped out everything I was doing in this whole other tab. Fucking facebook.

So I'll try to condense.

- In my experience, teenage Les Mis fangirls are generally some of the giddiest, most exaggeration-prone and generally insane (not in a cutesy good way) people I have ever had to deal with. Everyone's the expert, everyone knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who had something to do with one of the tours, and worst of all everyone's got a damn Eponine number they're ready and willing to pull out at any time. Reported interactions start sounding like guesses at Clue. Phillip Quast at a taco stand in Denver! Michael Ball inflating his tires outside JC Penney!

- In my experience with people who actually work, professionally, in musical theatre, day in and day out, all the bragging stops at the playbill blurbs. People who really do the work are too busy with all the rehearsals, brush-ups, cast meetings, all the extra promo crap like radio shows, dancing in parades, talking to school groups and stuff like that to go around making sure everyone knows how affiliated they are with the show. Kids have it even worse, because they have tutors and dance lessons and long sessions with vocal coaches. The longer the run, the grimmer and more businesslike they get. No one thinks about how romantic Enjolras is. They don't even think about what they're singing. They think about what crap they have to get through immediately after what they're doing and where they're eating afterward. They think about what groceries they're going to shop for or what they need to yell at their kids for when they get home. They'd roll their eyes at anyone with that much buy-in because after the initial excitement of being hired you don't find it in the cast.

There. Now I've got that out of my system.