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| INTRODUCTION THE STORY THEIR SYNOPSIS MY SYNOPSIS THE CHARACTERS VICTOR HUGO FACT v. FICTION FACTS THE SHOW DISEASES RUE DE LA PERLE A PALAVER MEDIA WRITTEN FANFIC/FANART L'HOPITAL OTHER SITE BRING ME HOME |
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| THE THENARDIERS 1773 - ???? 1788 - ???? Description: "This Madam Thenardier was a red-headed, large but angular woman, the soldier's wife type in all its horror, with, strangely enough, a languid air gained from novel reading. She was unrefined but simpering. She was still young, scarecely thirty... towering form and broad shoulders, those of a moveable colossus, fit for a market woman... Her broad face was covered with freckles, like the holes in a skimming ladle. She had a beard... Apart from the novels she had read, which at times produced odd glimpses of the affected lady under the ogress, it would never have occured to anyone to say: That's a woman. This Thenardiess was a cross between a whore and a fishwife. To hear her speak, you would say this was a polieman; to see her drink you would say this was a cartman; if you saw her handle Cosette, you would say this was the hangman." "The other Thenardier was a little man, skinny, pale, angular, bony, and puny, who looked sick but was healthy; this was where his skulduggery began. He smiled habitually as a matter of good business and tried to be polite to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he was refusing a penny. He had the look of a weasel and the air of a man of letters." |
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Bio: During Napolean's campaign, the Thenardiers followed the army and pillaged from the dead. At Waterloo, Thenardier accidentally saved Colonel Pontmercy's life. Later, they opened an inn called the Sergeant of Waterloo Tarvern, named after Thenardier, who had pretended to be a sergeant in Napolean's army. They had two daughters, both named after characters in romance novels, and three sons. When their tavern failed and they moved to the Gorbeau House in Paris, their oldest son, Gavroche, ran away, and they sold their younger sons to a thief. Thenardiers formed a gang, called Patron-Minette, which swindled charitable people. When both Thenardiers and their daughters, Eponine and Azelma, were arrested by Javert, the police let the girls go, and Thenardier escaped. He pillaged the bodies of students and Guardsmen during the revolution, and he sprung his wife from jail and they lived richly from his plunderings. Songs: "Master of the House" "The Bargain/Waltz of Treachery" "The Robvery" "Javet's Intervention" "Attack on Rue Plumet" "Dog Eats Dog" "Beggars at the Feast" Quotes: "And God don't interfere, for he's as dead as the stiffs at me feet." "I raise my eyes to see the heavens, and only the moon, the harvest moon shines down." "Master of the house, isn't worth me spit. Comforter, philosopher and life-long shit." "How could we speak of debt? Let's not haggle for darling Cosette!" Thenardiers I've seen/heard: Sue Jane Turner and Alun Armstrong OLC Jenny Galloway and Alun Armstrong 10th Anniversary Jennifer Butt and Leo Burmester OBC Gay Soper and Barry James Symphonic Kathy Santen and Nick Wyman Broadway Amyee Garcia and J.P. Dougherty Tour Amyee Garcia and Nick Wyman Broadway |