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The play, if you haven't seen it or read the book, is basically about this ex-convict named Jean Valjean who is played by Sean Tagimacruz. He is shown grace after yet again committing a crime while on parole. I must say this is pretty much the set-off of the whole story. A Bishop shows him grace and he is convicted and he decides to change his ways. A way to get this done, he has to run away from who he was and "start over" but this guard, Javert doesn't believe in such a transition. BTW, Javert is played by Emmanuel Fortich. So yeah, it all starts out as a chase and that's where the meat of the story continues.

Then, Valjeans becomes mayor and he owns this huge factory. There, we meet another character who's named Fantine (I played her! :DD) and she is already depressed because she has this baby girl who always gets sick and she doesn't have a husband so she has to everything on her own. And, since having a child out of wedlock was truly disgraceful, all the factory workers found a reason to sack her (Plus, the foreman's a creep...), so then she has to be a prostitute. UGH. But I must say, the prostitute Fantine was the most fun to play (ssshhh... don't tell anybody...).

Then, she gets harassed and stuff and Javert attempts to bring her to prison but Valjean decides to display the grace which was so graciously poured onto him to someone else. As an addition, Fantine dies of sickness and she entails her daughter to this man.

Her daughter is actually being held "captive" by some crazy inkeepers called the Thenardiers (Played by Erica Go and Jerome San Juan) and by crazy, I mean, jump on the table and dance around crazy.

So yeah, Valjean takes Fantine's daughter and raises her like his own, like he promised.

Then Cosette (his 'daughter'), who is played by Julia Barrameda, grows up and falls in love with a 'rebel' named Marius, who is played by Andrew Pablico and then yeah, all lovey-dovey and whatnot. But!! Marius has a friend who's actually in love with him. Her name's Eponine and she is played by Kim Daquipil. Then, Marius has this other friend (A guy this time) who leads the rebellion named Enjolras played by Sherwin Dacuyan.

THEN THE WAR!! The Barricades in the play where actually really cool, by the way. The second years weren't there when they blocked for Act II and we didn't see the barricades so when we saw the barricades for the first time, we were amazed. It looked really good actually. I mean, I hardly noticed that they were pieces from the previous props.

Yeah, then Javert (ha! back to him) pretends to be a student part of the rebellion and he gets caught so the students put him in Valjeans hands and since Javert is so inclined to his "revenge" setting, he gets really dumbfounded when Valjean lets him go.

Oh and by the way, all the students die in the barricades and so does Eponine. So technically they all die except for Marius because Valjean saves him and brings him to the sewers.

Back to Javert now, since he was so amazed at the grace he was showed, he couldn't take it, so he killed himself. WOWZAH. When Javert died, Valjean was finally "freed" from the one who's been chasing him. Since that was all Javert did, hence the song "Stars."

At the end, Fantine comes back as a ghost to take Valjean because he was growing old and he was gonna die soon and his Cosette finally got married to Marius and whatnot, so he finally felt like his purpose was fulfilled. Then he dies and they sing this song about triumph.

I feel like this play is all about triumph and grace because they were the main components of everything. I felt like despite the number of times I wanted to give up, made my realize that I wouldn't feel this happiness if I gave up. I'm so glad I didn't.

I really was so fulfilled at the end of it and I know that the amount of struggle would always be less compared to the feeling of success and satisfaction. I am more than satisfied with what we did, I am truly beaming.

If God hadn't been with us, we would've been nothing! I praise Him for our standing ovation and I praise Him for carrying me through even when I felt like I was inches away from falling apart. He is just so amazing in that way.

By the way, we are the first play in Rodelsa Hall to get a standing ovation and I am so proud! I'm glad that it happened and I'm ecstatic with the amount of praise it's being given. Despite the roadblocks, it was a success and all the worrying and doubting was forgotten when it happened.

I'm just so thankful to everyone who made this a success.. If you're reading this people, I'm so thankful of everything you've done. I have been through this amazing ride and I must say, I wouldn't have changed a thing. :)

Here are some pictures of the event. Credits to Mr. Jasper Llanderal!

Oh, and speaking of the Thernadiers, here they are! It's so hard not to love them! Their performance was complete gold, or er... brown since they had to eat brownies to make their teeth look rancid. Man, their dedication really astounds me.




Oh, this is Cosette when she's all grown up with her Marius. Man, I'm so proud of Julia. I know I'm not actually her mother, but allow me to have mother instincts when I say isn't she all grown up? :P



This is Valjean searching frantically for his daughter's Marius and this was at the (amazingly made!) barricades where all the students died. Hats off and a moment of silence.

It was kinda unfortunate though that Marius didn't get to sing "Empty Chairs and Empty Tables" and "A Little Fall of Rain" because those are guaranteed tear-jerkers, in my opinion.

DARN! I wanted a cool picture of Javert's suicide! But, oh well.

Here's a picture of the curtain call.



This is us with our director, Ms. Anita Santos, our (very amazing) musical editor and our musical director (or at least I think he's somewhere there...) and our rock, or at least one of my rocks, Ms. Jeni.

THANK YOU!